Norman Vincent Peale Quotes

If you want a quality, act as if you already have it. If you want to be courageous, act as if you were - and as you act and persevere in acting, so you tend to become.

Norman Vincent Peale

Quotes to Explore

When I'm in the studio, I don't finish the song and say, 'That's going to be a big ringtone.'

T-Pain
- Song
- Say
- Finish
A couple of times, I felt like I was cracking and I couldn't go on, and God would put another person in my place to help me.

Taya Kyle
- God
- Help
- Me
Religious ideas about good and evil tend to focus on how to achieve well-being in the next life, and this makes them terrible guides to securing it in this one. Of course, there are a few gems to be found in every religious tradition, but insofar as these precepts are wise and useful they are not, in principle, religious.

Sam Harris
- Life
- Good
- Focus
As a nuclear power - as the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon - the United States has a moral responsibility to act.

Barack Obama
I found it peculiar that those who wanted to take military action could - with 100 per cent certainty - know that the weapons existed and turn out to have zero knowledge of where they were.

Hans Blix
- Knowledge
- Know
- Action
I'm constantly trying to keep people guessing as to what I'm doing, and I will spend enormous amounts of time looking at manuscripts and asking questions, and people will say, 'I know what his next book is about.'

Dan Brown
- People
- Time
- Trying