Norman Vincent Peale Quotes
There are two primary forces in this world, fear and faith. Fear can move you to destructiveness or sickness or failure. Only in rare instances will it motivate you to accomplishment. But faith is a greater force. Faith can drive itself into your consciousness and set you free from fear forever.
Quotes to Explore
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You can only begin to share life well when you think well of yourself.
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One of the greatest boons that can ever come to a human being is to be born on a farm and reared in the country. Self-reliance and grit are oftenest country-bred.
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I wish there was a painter who could paint as well as Ted Williams could hit.
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The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.
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Sometimes a chord on a guitar will somehow spur some thought in your head, and you will write a song about it.
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A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around.
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A friend of mine encouraged me to try rapping, so I started experimenting with it, writing verses, seeing if I could fit an extra word or syllable into each line without tripping myself up.
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Forget not, O Lord, that I am one of those whom Thou hast created, and with Thine own blood hast redeemed. I repent me of my sins: I will strive to amend my ways.
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If it is a mistake of the head and not the heart don't worry about it, that's the way we learn.
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I can't write if someone else is in the house, not even the cleaning woman.
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How can I wage political battle against a widow who does not mean anyone any harm except only the president himself?
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I'm not interested in celebrity.
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I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.
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Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach.
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I ain't going to sit here like, 'My neighborhood was hard, and I had to get out there and grind.' We made it hard for ourselves. We chose to stay on the streets.
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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.
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The writer is more concerned to know than to judge.
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What's similar between Britain and America is the lack of good-quality civic buildings.
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You win and you're in; you lose and you're out. We've been in that situation the past four weeks, ever since the three (consecutive) losses (in November).
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Love is, without question life's greatest experience.
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The function of the novelist... is to comment upon life as he sees it.
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With socialized medicine, the trick is not to die while waiting for treatment.
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Ole man trouble. Go find you someone else to pick on. I live my life now you see. Ole man trouble, Please stay away from me, now. Oh I look like I'm down in my luck. Please send faith to help pick me up. I've lived this way so many years. Ole man trouble, Please wash away all my fears.
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There are two primary forces in this world, fear and faith. Fear can move you to destructiveness or sickness or failure. Only in rare instances will it motivate you to accomplishment. But faith is a greater force. Faith can drive itself into your consciousness and set you free from fear forever.
