Norman Vincent Peale Quotes

If you've been full of error and defeat, be done with it. Say, "By God's grace, I'm done with it," and take charge of yourself like never before."

Norman Vincent Peale

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• Even complex passwords are getting easy to break if they're too short. That's because today's inexpensive computer chips have the power of supercomputers from the year 2000.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Power
  • Today
  • Year

• There are over a million people running around the United States that were born to parents just on Match.com alone, to say nothing of the other properties we run, so that's a million lives that our company just had a little to do with in bringing their parents together.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • People
  • Together
  • Parents

• I would love to be employed for the rest of my life... But what I would want to do is things that would frighten me, things that would scare me. I've never done that before; can I do that, can I show them that I can do it?

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Life
  • Done
  • Rest

• I remember the general anxiety of teenager, and I remember establishing some sort of appearance based on what my peers would think. And cliques, oh my God, the worst. The worst!

  

  Eden Sher
  • God
  • Remember
  • Think

• I think women are amazing for being able to show what they feel. I admire women who do. I think it's a mistake when women cover their emotions to look tough. I say let's own who we are and use it as a strength.

  

  Gal Gadot
  • Women
  • Amazing
  • Mistake

• As long as people want to see me do this action and sci-fi stuff, it would be wrong of me to deny the fans what they want to see.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • People
  • Long
  • Action

• There are signs, I think, that people aren't satisfied by consumerism: that people resent the fact that the most moral decision in their lives is choosing what colour their next car will be.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • People
  • Decision
  • Car

• Acting is very immediate.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Acting
  • Very
  • Immediate

• We must be careful, as we seek to become more and more [Christlike], that we do not become discouraged and lose hope. Becoming Christlike is a lifetime pursuit and very often involves growth and change that is slow, almost imperceptible.

  

  D. Todd Christofferson
  • Hope
  • Growth
  • Lifetime

• I have been reading Madame Roland's memoirs and have come to the conclusion that she was a very over-rated woman; snobbish, vain, sentimental, envious - rather a German type. Her last days before her execution were spent in chronicling petty social snubs or triumphs of many years back. She was a democrat chiefly from envy of the noblesse.

  

  Madame Roland
  • She
  • Reading
  • Years

• Stand-up is like a movie every night. You write it, direct it, produce it, the audience votes, and you go home. There's nothing more satisfying.

  

  Elayne Boosler
  • Up
  • Home
  • Movie

• A truth ceases to be true when more than one person believes in it.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Truth
  • True
  • Person

• Anything in life worth working for, is worth praying for.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Life
  • Working
  • Praying

• There exists one book, which, to my taste, furnishes the happiest treatise of natural education. What then is this marvelous book? Is it Aristotle? Is it Pliny, is it Buffon? No-it is Robinson Crusoe.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Book
  • Education
  • Natural

• And from then on, I bathed in the Poem of the Sea, star-infused, and opalescent, devouring green azures.

  

  Arthur Rimbaud
  • Star
  • Sea
  • Green

• It is a point that I repeat over and over again in teaching public speaking. It is not so much what you say as it is the tone and manner in which you say it that makes a lasting impression.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Teaching
  • Point
  • Impression

• Democracy is grounded upon so childish a complex of fallacies that they must be protected by a rigid system of taboos, else even halfwits would argue it to pieces. Its first concern must be to penalize the free play of ideas.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Free
  • Play
  • Ideas

• I will not lose, for even in defeat/There's a valuable lesson learned, so it evens up for me

  

  Jay-Z
  • Up
  • Lessons
  • Defeat

• Truth has to be repeated constantly, because Error also is being preached all the time, and not just by a few, but by the multitude. In the Press and Encyclopaedias, in Schools and Universities, everywhere Error holds sway, feeling happy and comfortable in the knowledge of having Majority on its side.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Truth
  • Error
  • Universities

• A conductor's happiness does not come from only his own story and his joy of the music. The joy is about enabling other people's stories to be heard at the same time.

  

  Itay Talgam
  • Happiness
  • Stories
  • Conductor

• If you've been full of error and defeat, be done with it. Say, "By God's grace, I'm done with it," and take charge of yourself like never before."

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Defeat
  • Error
  • God's Grace