Norman Vincent Peale Quotes

I sometimes think we ought to bring a bill before Congress changing our national symbol from the eagle to the buffalo, because we are more like the buffalo than the eagle. The eagle is a powerful bird. It flies alone. It rises up into the sky with authority. It is master of all it surveys. The eagle is an individualist and was selected from among the rest of the birds to be our symbol. But the buffalo was never alone. It always ran in a herd with other buffaloes. And, friends, I call your attention that the buffaloes are gone from the open range, but the eagles are still soaring.

Norman Vincent Peale

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• I know that a good many champions have entertained the thought that the more they discourage youngsters, the longer they would reign. However, this theory never impressed me, and I always made it a point to give youths the benefit of my experience in bicycle racing.

  

  Major Taylor
  • Good
  • Experience
  • Thought

• I cannot tolerate fools - won't have anything to do with them. I only want to associate with brilliant people.

  

  Ida Lupino
  • People
  • Want
  • Fools

• I must stress here the point that I appreciate clarity, order, meaning, structure, rationality: they are necessary to whatever provisional stability we have, and they can be the agents of gradual and successful change.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Change
  • Stress
  • Meaning

• I need talk more, call people out. It's not who I am, but I feel I need to do this more to bring more attention for me.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • People
  • Attention
  • Talk

• I don't want to play games with anybody, to our fans, to Pierre Lacroix, or any other NHL team that might have interest in me.

  

  Patrick Roy
  • Want
  • Team
  • Interest

• I never imagined what it would be like to spend a 12-hour day crying and covered in blood.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Day
  • Never
  • Blood

• The Muslim leaders swallow the advice of the Western powers and bodies like the IMF and World Bank, even when it is bad for their countries and they know this.

  

  Abu Bakar Bashir
  • World
  • Bad
  • Know

• When President Obama entered the White House, the economy was in a free-fall. The auto industry: on its back. The banks: frozen up. More than three million Americans had already lost their jobs. And America's bravest, our men and women in uniform, were fighting what would soon be the longest wars in our history.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Up
  • Men
  • Women

• And like I said, I appreciate my older brothers because they would not allow me to win. They made me learn to play with them, which I think is the most important thing that I learned.

  

  Eddie Murray
  • Important
  • Learn
  • Win

• [Her life with Tony Curtis in 1961:] We were beginning the climb to a higher plateau. Acceptance. Recognition. Status. Security. We only had to hold on and hope the thin air didn't make us dizzy and cause a tumble. We also needed to remember that the inside had to ascend together with the outside.

  

  Janet Leigh
  • Life
  • Remember
  • Together

• Art is always good. It just depends if you like or not.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Good
  • Art
  • Ifs

• Once you get to a certain level, anybody can beat anybody else on any given day.

  

  Andy Roddick
  • Certain
  • Given
  • Levels

• If we would have God in the closet, God must have us out of the closet. There is no way of praying to God, but by living to God.

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
  • God
  • Way
  • Closet

• Prayer-leadership preserves the spirituality of the Church, just as prayerless leaders make for unspiritual conditions.

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
  • Church
  • Prayer
  • Leadership

• A man can pray better because of the prayers of the past; a man can live holier because of the prayers of the past; the man of many and acceptable prayers has done the truest and greatest service to the incoming generation.

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
  • Live
  • Done
  • Past

• I come from a mother who can cry at a G.E. commercial.

  

  Cory Booker
  • Mother
  • G.E.

• When the EPA says that property owners, farmers, and livestock producers must stomach higher costs, longer delays, and bigger headaches, it's up to Congress to put up a roadblock.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Up
  • Congress
  • Property

• National parks are the best idea we ever had. Absolutely American, absolutely democratic, they reflect us at our best rather than our worst.

  

  Wallace Stegner
  • Idea
  • National
  • Parks

• I first learned how to do hair from drag queens. I learned eyelashes are the key to life, because they make everyone look fabulous.

  

  Tabatha Coffey
  • Life
  • Hair
  • First

• More visibility is more power, but more vulnerability.

  

  Ezra Furman
  • Power
  • Vulnerability
  • VIsibility

• I sometimes think we ought to bring a bill before Congress changing our national symbol from the eagle to the buffalo, because we are more like the buffalo than the eagle. The eagle is a powerful bird. It flies alone. It rises up into the sky with authority. It is master of all it surveys. The eagle is an individualist and was selected from among the rest of the birds to be our symbol. But the buffalo was never alone. It always ran in a herd with other buffaloes. And, friends, I call your attention that the buffaloes are gone from the open range, but the eagles are still soaring.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Congress
  • National
  • Symbol