Norman Vincent Peale Quotes
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As long as enthusiasm holds out, so will new opportunities.
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Plant seeds of expectation in your mind; cultivate thoughts that anticipate achievement. Believe in yourself as being capable of overcoming all obstacles and weaknesses.
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Make a true estimate of your own ability, then raise it ten per cent.
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A positive thinker does not refuse to recognize the negative; he refuses to dwell on it.
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Americans are so tense and keyed up that it is impossible even to put them to sleep with a sermon.
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Negative thinking definitely attracts negative results.
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The as if principle works. Act as if you were not afraid and you will become courageous, as if you could and you'll find you can. Act as if you like a person and you'll find a friendship.
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No sin is committed merely because a thought enters the mind, provided it is not made welcome. Perhaps we may use the figure that the thought first passes into an anteroom, where it stands before the mind acting as a judge. No matter how sordid or evil, it has not touched the personality with its infamy nor in any way laid guilt upon the soul unless and until the mind acting as judge admits it with a welcome. If the mind decides against it and dismisses it, the personality is not only unsullied but is, on the contrary, by this act of rejection stimulated and strengthened in moral power.
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One of the basic laws of human existence is: find yourself, know yourself, be yourself.
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Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.
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It is always to early to quit.
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The greatest secret for eliminating the infirmity complex, which is another term for deep and profound self-doubt, is to fill your mind to overflowing faith.
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Try to see the joyful side of life. One must see the pain of life with clear eyes, and help all he can; but there is also lots of joy, and on should see that, too.
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Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.
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Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure.
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Life's blows cannot break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm.
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Many people conceive of religion as something apart from everyday affairs of the world. They think of it in terms of ceremony or ritual or sermons and often it strikes them as being dull or not particularly interesting. Religion may be described in many ways. I like to think of it as a medicine, a healing medicine for the mind.
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Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.
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I truly believe that if we keep telling the Christmas story, singing the Christmas songs, and living the Christmas spirit, we can bring joy and happiness and peace to this world.
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What seems impossible one minute becomes, through faith, possible the next.
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Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.
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If you have zest and enthusiasm you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind.
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Never say anything to hurt anyone. Moreover . . . refrain from double talk, from shrewd and canny remarks that are designed to advance our interests at someone's disadvantage. We are to turn our back upon evil, and in every way possible, do good, help people and bring blessings into their lives.
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The right kind of fear will keep us from doing wrong. The rough is only mental - it is rough only because your think it is.