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Afterward, I remember, General Roosevelt said to me, Now, you see, if you think you can, or somebody who believes in you thinks you can, why, then you can! -- Norman Vincent Peale
Before you go to sleep, run over your personal world mentally and thank God for everyone and everything. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Affirm it, visualize it, believe it and it will actualize itself. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Dare to be what your best self knows you ought to be; dare to be a bigger human being than you have ever been. -- Norman Vincent Peale
When the old fears, hates, and worries that have haunted you for so long try to edge back in, they will in effect find a sign on the door of your mind reading occupied. -- Norman Vincent Peale
If you are not getting as much from life as you want to, then examine the state of your enthusiasm. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities
always see them, for they're always there. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Develop serenity and quiet attitudes through your conversation. Depending upon the words we use and the tone in which we use them, we can talk ourselves into being nervous, high-strung, and upset. By our speech, we can also achieve quiet reactions. Talk peaceful to be peaceful. -- Norman Vincent Peale
It's always to soon to quit! -- Norman Vincent Peale
I had heard that verse many times but in a flash of insight realized that one of the keys I had missed was that hadn't trained my mind to believe, to think positively, to have faith in either God or myself. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Begin where you are. Don't wait for someone else to change things for you. Do it yourself -- Norman Vincent Peale
Check what you did right and don't get lost in basking on your glory. It will make it easier to repeat whatever you did that created the success. -- Norman Vincent Peale
The only people who don't have problems are in a cemetery. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Don't let any obstacle stop you. Always remember that you have spiritual and mental qualities within you that can overcome even the seemingly impossible. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Don't bother. The glass is half-empty.
-- Norman Vincent Peale
You'll always get an idea if you think and don't panic. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Stand up to an obstacle. Just stand up to it, that's all, and don't give way under it, and it will finally break. You will break it. Something has to break, and it won't be you, it will be the obstacle. -- Norman Vincent Peale
You don't have to be tired and bored. Get interested in something. Get absolutely enthralled in something. Throw yourself into it with abandon. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds. -- Norman Vincent Peale
When we start focusing on things we can do and don't think so much about the things we can't do, things really start to happen -- Norman Vincent Peale
Though one may acquire much in wealth, fame, or honor, the real joy of life does not lie there but, rather, in keeping the romance of living going. Nothing gives such complete and profound happiness as the perpetually fresh wonder and mystery of exciting life. -- Norman Vincent Peale
She said that whenever she feels the old insidious chill of loneliness beginning to creep back into her life, she picks up the phone and calls someone who may be lonelier than she is. -- Norman Vincent Peale
When fate throws a dagger at you, there are ways to catch it. If you catch it by the blade, you can harm yourself. But if you catch it by the handle, you can use it to help you fight through the obstacles ahead. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Don't duck the most difficult problems. That just ensures that the hardest part will be left when you are most tired. Get the big one done - it's downhill from then on. -- Norman Vincent Peale
The secret of the law of abundance is this: In order to receive and appreciate the good things of life, you must first give. -- Norman Vincent Peale
I believe there are two sides to the phenomenon known as death, this side where we live, and the other side where we shall continue to live. Eternity does not start ith death. We are in eternity now. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Every problem contains the seed of it's own solution. -- Norman Vincent Peale
I place this day, my life, my loved ones, my work in the Lord's hands. There is no harm in the Lord's hands, only good. Whatever happens, whatever results, if I am in the Lord's hands it is the Lord's will and it is good. -- Norman Vincent Peale
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. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Good will cannot flow toward you unless it flows from you. -- Norman Vincent Peale
The how thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile ifs but goes right to work on the creative how. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Problems are to the mind what exercise is to the muscles; they toughen and make strong. -- Norman Vincent Peale
A positive thinker does not refuse to recognize the negative; he refuses to dwell on it. Positive thinking is a form of thought which habitually looks for the best results from the worst conditions -- Norman Vincent Peale
The most vital, creative, and positive thoughts are those stated in the Bible. Its words are alive and form powerful thought processes. -- Norman Vincent Peale
People fail to understand that unless they are themselves willing to give, they will never receive. -- Norman Vincent Peale
I found eternal peace in a Shinto shrine ... I've been to Shinto shrines and God is everywhere ... Christ is one of the ways! God is everywhere. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Fear knocked at the door. Faith answered. No one was there. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. -- Norman Vincent Peale
but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus." (Philippians 3:13-14) -- Norman Vincent Peale
What the mind can conceive and believe, and the heart desire, you can achieve. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Think health, eat sparingly, exercise regularly, walk a lot, and think positively about yourself. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Life is not all fun and easy going. Far from it; there are many rough times. But, sadly, we too often let the hard times dull our enthusiasm. And that is dangerous, if not fatal, to our lives. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Not mere achievement, but rather the more difficult feat of handling your life efficiently. It means to be a success as a person; controlled, organized, not part of the world's problems, but part of its cure ... of being creative individuals. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Every day remind yourself of your own ability, of your good mind and affirm that you can make something really good out of your life. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Often we have no choice about doing things, but we can always choose how to do them. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Live your life and forget your age. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Any occupation, any job has excitement in it if you have some excitement in you. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Knock the T off the word can't. You can do anything - ANYTHING - if you think you can! -- Norman Vincent Peale
Every night empty your mind of unhappy thoughts as you empty your pockets and come alive. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Frequently remind yourself that God is with you, that He will never fail you, that you can count upon him. Say these words, "God is with me, helping me." -- Norman Vincent Peale
Happiness consists not in having, but of being, not of possessing, but of enjoying. It is the warm glow of a heart at peace with itself. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Make sure you pay attention to what's right with your life, not just what's wrong. -- Norman Vincent Peale
If you feel afraid, you can make yourself courageous by acting courageous. If you are feeling unhappy, by deliberately acting happy you can induce happy feeling. If you are lacking in enthusiasm, by simply acting enthusiastic you can make yourself enthusiastic. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Whenever a negative thought concerning your personal power comes to mind, deliberately voice a positive thought to cancel it out. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Know what you want and believe that you can have it. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Hope is wanting something so eagerly that-in spite of all the evidence that you're not going to get it-you go right on wanting it. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Only the believers pick up the prizes in life. -- Norman Vincent Peale
I firmly believe that when you die you will enter immediately into another life. They who have gone before us are alive in one form of life and we in another. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Never use the word "impossible" seriously again. Toss it into the verbal wastebucket. -- Norman Vincent Peale
We are beginning to comprehend a basic truth hitherto neglected, that our physical condition is determined very largely by our emotional condition, and our emotional life is profoundly regulated by our thought life. -- Norman Vincent Peale
The capacity to be either happy or unhappy is determined by the manner in which you react to whatever happens. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Learn from both your mistakes and successes because if you learn only from your mistakes you will only learn more errors -- Norman Vincent Peale
It is a fact that negative thought will attract negative thought, and positive thought will attract positive thought. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Good intentions are no substitute for obedience. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Positive Thinkers get positive results because they appreciate the inestimable value of a day, this day, not the next day, but this day, and every day. Today offers at least sixteen waking hours that may be crammed FULL of opportunity, joy, excitement, and achievement. -- Norman Vincent Peale
You will soon break the bow if you keep it always stretched. -- Norman Vincent Peale
The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have. -- Norman Vincent Peale
And if the criticized person takes it quietly without rancor, not striking back but constantly loving, he will gather in friends faster than his critics can manufacture enemies. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Know that you yourself are a miracle. -- Norman Vincent Peale
The man who lives for himself is a failure. Even if he gains much wealth, position or fortune, he is still a failure. The man who lives for others has achieved true success. A rich man who consecrates his wealth and his position to the good of humanity is a success. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Eliminate the word "impossible" from your conversation, drop it from your thoughts, erase it from your attitudes. Stop rationalizing it. Cease excusing it. Substitute for it that bright and shining word ... POSSIBLE." -- Norman Vincent Peale
You can make yourself enthusiastic by affirming enthusiasm and by thinking, talking, acting enthusiastic. -- Norman Vincent Peale
The hammer shatters glass but forges steel. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Believe that you are bigger than your difficulties, for you are, indeed. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Start looking for joy and you'll find it. -- Norman Vincent Peale
One of the greatest of all principles is that men can do what they think they can do. -- Norman Vincent Peale
What seems impossible one minute becomes, through faith, possible the next. -- Norman Vincent Peale
God never made anyone else exactly like you, and he never will again. Thank him for yourself and then for all the rest of his glorious handiwork. -- Norman Vincent Peale
What you can image, you will be, in the long run. -- Norman Vincent Peale
I believe in the power of Jesus Christ to resolve any difficulty, to remove any weakness, to heal any disease. -- Norman Vincent Peale
In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Religious faith may very well be considered a science, for it responds invariably to certain formulae. Perform the technique of faith according to the laws which have been proved workable in human experience and you will always get a result of power. -- Norman Vincent Peale
If you think lack you tend to create a condition of lack. Shift your thought pattern to one of abundance and believe that God is now in the process of giving you the abundance you need. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow -- Norman Vincent Peale
You have to picturize, prayerize and actualize. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Life is a blend of laughter and tears, a combination of rain and sunshine. -- Norman Vincent Peale
The sure way to success is so simple, but it requires character, guts, persistence, the mastery of lower jobs to be ready for the better ones. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture ... Do not build up obstacles in your imagination. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once. -- Norman Vincent Peale
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
Infantile people complain and say that God is cruel or that there is no God. Mature people, however, know that there is wisdom and sometimes an eternal kindness in God's refusals. -- Norman Vincent Peale
To have a mind full of peace, merely fill it full of peace. It's as simple as that. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Remember that "Help us grow this grass" is a far more effective sign than "Keep off the grass". -- Norman Vincent Peale
One of the simplest things about all facts of life is that to get where you want to go, you must keep on keeping on. -- Norman Vincent Peale
We are all capable of
greater things than we realize. -- Norman Vincent Peale
It's always too early to quit. -- Norman Vincent Peale
America has become so tense and nervous it has been years since I have seen anyone sleep in church - and that is a sad situation. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Optimism, when applied to your life, develops strength and peace within you. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Make a mental list of happy thoughts and pass them through your mind several times every day. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Happiness will never come if it's a goal in itself; happiness is a by-product of a commitment of worthy causes. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Norman Vincent Peale "A peaceful mind generates power." from his book The Powers of Positive Thinking. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Our problem is to become acquainted with our own selves, letting our personalities loose upon the world for the sheer adventure of their full development and in the positive hope that they may in their own way lift the level of humanity. -- Norman Vincent Peale
When you expect the best, you release a magnetic force in your mind which by a law of attraction tends to bring the best to you. -- Norman Vincent Peale
No matter how dark things become, someone is always with you - and that someone is God. He helps by giving you peace and a positive mental attitude. -- Norman Vincent Peale
It's always too soon to quit! -- Norman Vincent Peale
Help other people to cope with their problems, and your own will be easier to cope with. -- Norman Vincent Peale
You can do amazing things if you have strong faith, deep desire, and just hang in there. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Stress the thought of plenty. Thoughts of plenty help create plenty. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Thoughts and words form your mental image. And since we become what we picture be sure your thoughts and words express prosperity and blessing rather than poverty and defeat. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Go forward confidently, energetically attacking problems, expecting favorable outcomes. -- Norman Vincent Peale
The tests of life are not to break you but to make you. -- Norman Vincent Peale
The antidote to frustration is a calm faith, not in your own cleverness, or in hard toil, but in God's guidance. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Always maintain hopefulness, especially when the going is hard. -- Norman Vincent Peale
If you put off everything till you're sure of it, you'll never get anything done. -- Norman Vincent Peale
The greatest secret for eliminating the inferiority complex, which is another term for deep and profound self-doubt, is to fill your mind to overflowing with faith. Develop a tremendous faith in God and that will give you a humble yet soundly realistic faith in yourself. -- Norman Vincent Peale
If you have zest and enthusiasm you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind. -- Norman Vincent Peale
A war fitness conference some time ago declared that the highest form of recreation is to go to church. The word recreation should be written re-creation. More real rest can be gained from an hour and a quarter of worship under these circumstances than by eighteen holes of golf. -- Norman Vincent Peale
We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors. -- Norman Vincent Peale
If you face life with the sincere faith that through the aid of the Almighty you can overcome your troubles, then you will keep defeat at arm's length. And this applies in all the circumstances life can bring. -- Norman Vincent Peale
If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed ... nothing shall be impossible unto you. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Do not let circumstances defeat you. You can if you think you can. -- Norman Vincent Peale
There are no circumstances in your life where God will not stand will not stand with you and help you, no matter what the trouble may be. -- Norman Vincent Peale
The individual who knows the score about life sees difficulties as opportunities -- Norman Vincent Peale
Lots of people limit their possibilities by giving up easily. Never tell yourself this is too much for me. It's no use. I can't go on. If you do you're licked, and by your own thinking too. Keep believing and keep on keeping on. -- Norman Vincent Peale
The negative principle negates. The positive principle creates. The negative principle doubts. The positive principle believes. The negative principle accepts defeat. The positive principle goes for victory. -- Norman Vincent Peale
revealing the inner state of his personality, and -- Norman Vincent Peale
When you affirm big, believe big and pray big, big things happen. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Nothing of great value in this life comes easily. The things of highest value sometimes come hard. The gold that has the greatest value lies deepest in the earth, as do the diamonds. -- Norman Vincent Peale
The trouble with most of us is that we'd rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Don't take tomorrow to bed with you. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Religion does not blithely promise some sort of no-trouble, no-problem, no-poverty world; but rather a spirit, a power, an enthusiasm that endows everyone with the ability to overcome any and all of it. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Cherish your family connections. They are one of God's greatest ways of demonstrating his love and fellowship. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Just as we may learn from our successes (how to do it) so also can we learn from our mistakes (how not to do it). It just isn't in the cards that anybody should get by forever without making mistakes and perhaps sometimes making costly ones. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Through persistence, self-knowledge, prayer, commitment, optimism, a resolute trust in God and the building of your own personal moral strength, you can enjoy the blessings of a deeper faith and face the difficulties of life with courage and confidence. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Take a new look at your present "impossible." Consider positive ways to handle it. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Almighty God freely bestows the good things in this world in proportion to a person's mental readiness to receive. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Have absolutely no sense of guilt about being happy and successful if you operate honestly and with a sense of social responsibility. -- Norman Vincent Peale
I truly believe that the individual who learns to practice thanksgiving activates within himself and around himself continuous victories and blessings from God. -- Norman Vincent Peale
A wish is an attitude of mind to which wings have been attached. You wish and you dream, and your whole nature focuses to bring your wishes and dreams to pass. -- Norman Vincent Peale
They are not easily irritated or annoyed. Some people seem to be able to rise above their irritations and they are fun to be with because they are poised and even-tempered. They seem to live on an upper level emotionally and are not easily riled up. They keep in a good humor and spirit. -- Norman Vincent Peale
People who belittle people, will be LITTLE people, and will accomplish very Little -- Norman Vincent Peale
Imagination is the true magic carpet. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Emerson said, "The soul contains the event that shall befall it. -- Norman Vincent Peale
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. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Confidently receive God's abundant blessings. Think abundance, prosperity, and the best of everything. -- Norman Vincent Peale
It's a strange principle but it's true, nevertheless, that those who give the most have the most of whatever they give. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Never allow sick attitudes to poison your thinking, nor let ill will make you ill. Avoid making your mind sore by that painful rehurting called resentment. -- Norman Vincent Peale
One way to become enthusiastic is to look for the plus sign. To make progress in any difficult situation, you have to start with what's right about it and build on that -- Norman Vincent Peale
Think joy, talk joy, practice joy, share joy, saturate your mind with joy, and you will have the time of your life today and every day all your life. -- Norman Vincent Peale
A masterful retreat is itself a victory. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Do not exclusively say your prayers in the form of asking God for something. The prayer of thanksgiving is much more powerful. -- Norman Vincent Peale
How you think about a problem is more important than the problem itself. So always think positively. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Begin where you are. Begin now. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Let go and let God. Let Him take over your life and run it. He knows how. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Listen to the magic word of motivation and you will hear it. Then the sky is the limit. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be. -- Norman Vincent Peale
To become a happy person have a clean soul, eyes that see romance in the commonplace, a child's heart, and spiritual simplicity. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Do not always ask when you pray, but instead affirm that God's blessings are being given, and spend most of your prayers giving thanks. -- Norman Vincent Peale
When I dig another out of trouble, the hole from which I lift him is the place where I bury my own. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Focus on people and the needs they have. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Think positively about yourself ... ask God who made you to keep on remaking you. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Never react emotionally to what happens but always look for and find in every circumstance the good that's surely present there. -- Norman Vincent Peale
The trouble with the average person is that he doesn't trust himself sufficiently to create and deliver ideas. -- Norman Vincent Peale
I change my thoughts, I change my world. -- Norman Vincent Peale
If Jesus were alive today, he'd probably be at the Super Bowl. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Throw back the shoulders, let the heart sing, let the eyes flash, let the mind be lifted up, look upward and say to yourself ... nothing is impossible! -- Norman Vincent Peale
The purpose of writing inspirational notes is simply to build others up because there are too many people in the demolition business. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex. -- Norman Vincent Peale
People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success. -- Norman Vincent Peale
When learning stops, decay sets in. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Having asked God for forgiveness, accept release, then truly forgive yourself and turn your back definitely on the matter. -- Norman Vincent Peale
You must never conclude, even though everything goes wrong, that you cannot succeed. Even at the worst there is a way out, a hidden secret that can turn failure into success and despair into happiness. No situation is so dark that there is not a ray of light -- Norman Vincent Peale
Plan your work - work your plan. Lack of system produces that 'I'm swamped' feeling. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Never let any mistake cause you to stop believing in yourself. Learn from it and go on. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Fear is never a reason for quitting; it is only an excuse. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Not every day can be an easy one, nor every day fully happy; but even a day of tough going and difficulty can be a good day. -- Norman Vincent Peale
The Bible - the wisest document ever known in human existence, which defies the ravages of time and change because it contains the truth that cannot be changed or invalidated. -- Norman Vincent Peale
The final and best antidote for worry is simply this: Image Jesus Christ as actually your personal friend. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Can you go a whole day with joy in your heart? Joy and vitality are an inseparable combination. Joy is not concerned with having fun; it is an inner spiritual quality that overcomes despair, pain and defeat. You cannot turn on joy like an electric light, but you can prepare yourself to receive it. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Once he began to act as if he could not fail, he did not fail. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Go at life with abandon; give it all you've got. And life will give all it has to you. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Whatever you are doing in the game of life, give it all you've got -- Norman Vincent Peale
Fill the day with enthusiasm. Give the day all you've got and it will give you all it's got, which will be plenty. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that. -- Norman Vincent Peale
That verse many times, but it never had any effect -- Norman Vincent Peale
Be humble, be big in mind and soul, be kindly; you will like yourself that way and so will other people -- Norman Vincent Peale
Let a series of happy thoughts run through your mind. They will show on your face. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Grasp a difficulty by the "blade" and it cuts; grasp it by the "handle" and you can use it constructively. -- Norman Vincent Peale
There is only one group of people who do not have problems, and they are all dead. Problems are a sign of life, so the more problems you have, the more alive you are. -- Norman Vincent Peale
There is a basic law that like attracts like. Negative thinking definitely attracts negative results. Conversely, if a person habitually thinks optimistically and hopefully, his positive thinking sets in motion creative forces - and success instead of eluding him flows toward him. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Medication is of course important but do not conclude that a pill dissolving in your stomach is necessarily more powerful than a healing thought in your mind. -- Norman Vincent Peale
To go fast, row slowly. -- Norman Vincent Peale
To cure worry, spend fifteen minutes daily filling your mind full of God. Worry is just a very bad mental habit. You can change any habit with God's help. -- Norman Vincent Peale
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
Who decides whether you shall be happy or unhappy? You do! -- Norman Vincent Peale
One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Christmas is the season of joy, of holiday greetings exchanged, of gift-giving,and of families united. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle. -- Norman Vincent Peale
The positive thinker is a hard-headed, tough-minded, and factual realist. He sees all the difficulties clearly ... which is more than can be said for the average negative thinker. But he sees more than difficulties - he tries to see the solutions of those difficulties. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Never forget that all the enthusiasm you need is in your mind. Let it out - let it live - let it motivate you. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Promise yourself success at the beginning of each day, and you'll be surprised how often things will turn out that way. -- Norman Vincent Peale
The great secret of getting what you want from life is to know whay you want and believe you can have it. Always do something for others, then ask God to help you get at it. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Dwelling on negative thoughts is like fertilizing weeds. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Motivation is like nutrition. It must be taken daily and in healthy doses to keep it going -- Norman Vincent Peale
Make a list of your friends and determine who is the most positive thinker among them and deliberately cultivate his society. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Practice loving people. It is true that this requires effort and continued practice, for some are not very lovable, or so it seems - with emphasis on seems. Every person has lovable qualities when you really learn to know him. -- Norman Vincent Peale
What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them (Mark 11:24). -- Norman Vincent Peale
Every person, if he is to have mental health and live successfully, must move away from past failures and mistakes and go forward without letting them be a weight upon him. The art of forgetting is absolutely necessary. -- Norman Vincent Peale
There was Glenn Cunningham, whose legs were so badly burned as a child that he was told he would not walk again. But he became one of the fastest Olympic milers in history. Glenn Cunningham told me that faith and positive thinking are 85 per cent of an athlete's success; -- Norman Vincent Peale
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. -- Norman Vincent Peale
We tend to get what we expect. -- Norman Vincent Peale
You must conceive it in your heart and mind before you can receive it. If you believe then all things are possible. -- Norman Vincent Peale
If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself. -- Norman Vincent Peale
When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Decide that you will not try to do everything at once. That is why time is spread out. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented, and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful. Such attitudes are active and definite factors in creating satisfactory conditions. Watch your manner of speech then if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Every day practice emptying your mind of all unhealthy attitudes. -- Norman Vincent Peale
When you get up in the morning, you have two choices - either to be happy or to be unhappy. Just choose to be happy -- Norman Vincent Peale
As his self-defenses seemed to indicate. When the younger employee -- Norman Vincent Peale
Think enthusiastically about everything; but especially about your job. If you do so, you'll put a touch of glory in your life. If you love your job with enthusiasm, you'll shake it to pieces. -- Norman Vincent Peale
When the student is ready, the messenger appears. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Americans are so tense and keyed up that it is impossible even to put them to sleep with a sermon. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Faith supplies staying power. Anyone can keep going when the going is good, but some extra ingredient is needed to keep you fighting when it seems that everything is against you -- Norman Vincent Peale
Be an all-out, not a hold out. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Mind can conceive and believe, and your heart desire, you can achieve. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Change your thoughts and change your world -- Norman Vincent Peale
One
person can make a difference. You don't have to be a big shot. You
don't have to have a lot of influence. You just have to have faith in
your power to change things. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Prayerize, visualize, actualize - that is the formula for successful imaging. -- Norman Vincent Peale
There is nothing in life so difficult that it cannot be overcome. This faith can move mountains. It can change people. It can change the world. You can survive all the great storms in your life -- Norman Vincent Peale
Make a true estimate of your own ability, then raise it ten per cent. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Expect great things, and great things will come. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Go to inspirational meetings, get to know men and women who are doing inspiring things. Above all, run as hard as you can from the cynics and gripers and the negativists. They are not going anywhere. You are. -- Norman Vincent Peale
It is always to early to quit. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Once we roared like lions for liberty; now we bleat like sheep for security! The solution for America's problem is not in terms of big government, but it is in big men over whom nobody stands in control but God. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Silence fertilizes the deep place where personality grows. A life with a peaceful center can weather all storms. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Realize that there are not hopeless situations; there are only people who take hopeless attitudes. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Four things for success: work and pray, think and believe. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Families, like individuals, are unique. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Take charge of your mind and begin to fill it with
healthy, positive, and courageous thoughts. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Nobody ever mastered any skill except through intensive persistent and intelligent practice. -- Norman Vincent Peale
If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Cultivate will power, that massive creative force that God the creator built into you. Do not let it remain flabby but strengthen it by use and exercise. -- Norman Vincent Peale
You only lose energy when life becomes dull in your mind. Your mind gets bored and therefore tired of doing nothing. -- Norman Vincent Peale
The mind quickly responds to teaching and discipline. You can make the mind give you back anything you want. -- Norman Vincent Peale
No matter how many worries and anxieties harass you, remember always that they are removable. Enthusiasm with its immense mental and spiritual power can cancel out all fear. -- Norman Vincent Peale
A true apology is more than just aknowledgment of a mistake. It is recognition that something you have said or done has damaged a relationship and that you care enough about the relationship to want it repaired and restored. -- Norman Vincent Peale
If you expect the best, you will be the best. Learn to use one of the most powerful laws in this world; change your mental habits to belief instead of disbelief. Learn to expect, not to doubt. In so doing, you bring everything into the realm of possibility. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Worry is a habit. It got into your mind because you practiced it, and anything you practice in, you can practice out. -- Norman Vincent Peale
If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Keep your mental and spiritual contact points cleaned so that God can operate through your mind. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Jesus is not a memory. He is an actual, contemporary, reachable Person. He is the living Christ, who has the power to enter into people's lives and change and lift them up. -- Norman Vincent Peale
He remembered that what things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them. -- Norman Vincent Peale
The word "no" denotes a shutting of the door. It means failure, defeat, delay. But spell in backwards and take new hope, for backwards it spells "on." -- Norman Vincent Peale
Keep thinking, keep interested, keep praying, keep dreaming. Be mentally sensitive at all times so that the magic word that motivates you may one day speak to your deep inner self. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Always remember that problems contain values that have improvement potential. -- Norman Vincent Peale
By success, of course, I do not mean that you may become rich, famous, or powerful for that does not, of necessity, represent achievement. Indeed, not infrequently, such individuals represent pathetic failure as persons. -- Norman Vincent Peale
And now we get down to two magic words that tell us how to accomplish just about anything we want to accomplish, two powerful words that can change any situation, two dynamic words that all too few people use. And what are these two amazing words? Do it! -- Norman Vincent Peale
Remember: what you think you will become - good or bad, weak or strong, defeated or victorious. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Expect the best and get it. -- Norman Vincent Peale
I believe that I am always divinely guided. I believe that I will always take the right turn in the road. I believe that God will make a way where there is no way. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Yesterday ended last night. Every day is a new beginning. Learn the skill of forgetting. And move on. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Believe and create is a basic fact of successful living. -- Norman Vincent Peale
To change your circumstances, first start thinking differently. Do not passively accept unsatisfactory circumstances, but form a picture in your mind of circumstances as they should be. Believe and succeed. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Humans will never be hampered as smooth bag. They just dragged and dropped upon his head and empty heart -- Norman Vincent Peale
The way to happiness: Keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Scatter sunshine, forget self, think of others. Try this for a week and you will be surprised. -- Norman Vincent Peale
A primary method for gaining a mind of full peace is to practice emptying the mind. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Those who are fired with an enthusiastic idea and who allow it to take hold and dominate their thoughts find that new worlds open for them. As long as enthusiasm holds out, so will new opportunities. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Believe it is possible to solve your problem. Tremendous things happen to the believer. So believe the answer will come. It will. -- Norman Vincent Peale
God is with me, helping me. -- Norman Vincent Peale
People who are able to turn criticism into a positive situation are going to attract friends. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Believe that all the resources you need are in your mind. That is a formula that really works. -- Norman Vincent Peale
A book is a present that you can open again and again -- Norman Vincent Peale
Learn to relax. Your body is precious,
as it houses your mind and spirit.
Inner peace begins with a relaxed body. -- Norman Vincent Peale
I believe absolutely and certainly that, when you die, you will meet your loved ones and know them and be reunited with them, never to be seperated again. -- Norman Vincent Peale
We live in the midst of the greatest scientific civilization in the history of the world. But the greatest wisdom walking our streets is not in any laboratory scientist, but the wisdom of Jesus Christ. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Let the skeptics have their doubts. I prefer to believe that ideas do have wings! -- Norman Vincent Peale
By acting as you wish yourself to be, in due course you will become as you act. -- Norman Vincent Peale
You must feed your mind even as you feed your body, and to make your mind healthy, you must feed it nourishing, wholesome thoughts. -- Norman Vincent Peale
If you visualize a failure, you tend to create the conditions that produce failure. Visualize-believe-and thank God in advance. -- Norman Vincent Peale
One of the few greatest satisfactions of this life is to handle problems efficiently and well. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Cut the "im" out of impossible, leading that dynamic word standing out free and clear-possible. -- Norman Vincent Peale
God answers prayer in three ways: yes, no, and wait awhile. -- Norman Vincent Peale
It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship. -- Norman Vincent Peale
You become a worrier by practicing worry. You can become free of worry by practicing the opposite and stronger habit of faith. With all the strength and perseverance you can command, start practicing faith. -- Norman Vincent Peale
In adversity keep motivated, for often the best comes from difficulty. -- Norman Vincent Peale
It's almost as if there were an invisible reservoir of abundance in the universe that can be tapped if you will just obey certain spiritual laws. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Always remember, there is more strength in you than you ever realized or even imagined. Certainly nothing can keep you down if you are determined to get on top of things and stay there. -- Norman Vincent Peale
We may live victoriously, not because we have any power within ourselves, but because when we give ourselves to God, He gives himself to us. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Never react emotionally to criticism. Analyze yourself to determine whether it is justified. If it is, correct yourself. Otherwise, go on about your business. -- Norman Vincent Peale
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. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Only the person who risks is truly free. A man's conquest of himself dwarfs the conquest of Mt. Everest. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Remind yourself that God is with you and nothing can defeat him. -- Norman Vincent Peale
The controlled person is a powerful person. He who always keeps his head will get ahead. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Trouble is here. It is for a purpose. Use it for the purpose for which it was intended - to help you grow. Thank God for your troubles. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Faith is the one power against which fear cannot stand. Day by day, as you fill your mind with faith, there will ultimately be no more room left for fear. This is the one great fact that no one should forget. Master faith and you will automatically master fear. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Be interesting, be enthusiastic ... and don't talk too much. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Life's blows cannot break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm. -- Norman Vincent Peale
The Bible tells us that the sins of the fathers are passed to succeeding generations. The virtues of the fathers can be passed along, too. -- Norman Vincent Peale
The jailer is you. You're the only person who has the key to your cell. You're the only one who can open the door that leads to freedom. -- Norman Vincent Peale
When obstacles or difficulties arise, the positive thinker takes them as creative opportunities. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Constantly reemphasize to yourself the great fact that God built potential strength into your nature. By affirming it and practicing it, this basic strength will toughen up as muscles do. -- Norman Vincent Peale
If in our thoughts we constantly fix attention upon sinister expectations of dire events that might happen, the result will be constantly to feel insecure. -- Norman Vincent Peale
He was a cynic and like most cynics, totally selfish and self-indulgent. -- Norman Vincent Peale
The really happy people are those who have broken the chains of procrastination, those who find satisfaction in doing the job at hand. They're full of eagerness, zest, productivity. You can be, too. -- Norman Vincent Peale
We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities. -- Norman Vincent Peale
When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self - giving is a personal power - releasing factor. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Enthusiasm spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment. -- Norman Vincent Peale
It is always there for the person who will surrender his life to the Lord and keep on doing so when difficulties arise. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Avoid arguments, but whenever a negative attitude is expressed, counter with a positive and optimistic opinion. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Jesus made it clear that the most important thing in the world is our relationship to God and to others. When we achieve that, everything good will follow. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Ask for what you want, but be willing to take what God gives you. It may be better than what you asked for. -- Norman Vincent Peale
And what marvelous things there are for which to be grateful in God's great Creation! -- Norman Vincent Peale
All successful people have a goal. No one can get anywhere unless he knows where he wants to go and what he wants to be or do. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Let nothing trouble you let nothing worry you everything passes away expect God God alone is sufficient -- Norman Vincent Peale
Optimism is a philosophy based on the belief that basically life is good, that, in the long run, the good in life overbalances the evil. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Nothing is more confusing than people who give good advice but set a bad example. -- Norman Vincent Peale
When you are afraid, do the thing you are afraid of and soon you will lose your fear of it. -- Norman Vincent Peale
The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence. -- Norman Vincent Peale
The big question isn't whether you have problems; the all-important factor is your attitude toward problems. How you think of the problem is more important than the problem itself. -- Norman Vincent Peale
You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do. -- Norman Vincent Peale
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. -- Norman Vincent Peale
The first step is to fill your life with positive faith that will help you through anything. The second step is to start where you are. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Believe you can, and you can. Belief is one of the most powerful of all problem dissolvers. When you believe that a difficulty can be overcome, you are more than halfway to victory over it already. -- Norman Vincent Peale
One of the basic laws of human existence is: find yourself, know yourself, be yourself. -- Norman Vincent Peale
The whole trend and quality of anyone's life is determined in the long run by the choices that are made. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Don't tense up no matter what, for you only close off creative power when you do. -- Norman Vincent Peale
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. -- Norman Vincent Peale
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. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Plant seeds of expectation in your mind; cultivate thoughts that anticipate achievement. Believe in yourself as being capable of overcoming all obstacles and weaknesses. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Never tell yourself ... I can't go on. If you do you're licked, and by your own thinking too. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Cannot prevent birds from flying over your head, but you can keep them from building nests in your hair. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful. -- Norman Vincent Peale
the church, but in memory I go and stand -- Norman Vincent Peale
The world in which you live is not primarily determined by outward conditions and circumstances but by the thoughts that habitually occupy your mind. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Whatever your problem, no matter how difficult, you can release spiritual power sufficient to solve your problem. The secret is
pray and believe. -- Norman Vincent Peale
What is hope? Hope is wishing for a thing to come true; faith is believing that it will come true. -- Norman Vincent Peale
When you keep asserting that things are going to work out well, that you can do the job, that you will not have a flat tire, that you will get there on time, by talking up good results you invoke the law of positive effects and good results occur. Things do turn out well. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Even if you may be down to the worst, the best is potentially within you. You only have to find it, release it, and rise up with it. This requires courage and character, to be sure, but the main requirement is faith. Cultivate faith and you will have the necessary courage and character. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Do Your Best, Let God Do The Rest -- Norman Vincent Peale
The greatest measure of a human being isn't how he handles himself when things are going well, but how he handles himself when things are going badly, when defeat comes. -- Norman Vincent Peale
A basic law: the more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for. This, of course, is a fact. Thankfulness does tend to reproduce in kind. The attitude of gratitude revitalizes the entire mental process by activating all other attitudes, thus stimulating creativity. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Have great hopes and dare to go all out for them. Have great dreams and dare to live them. Have tremendous expectations and believe in them. -- Norman Vincent Peale
When you wholeheartedly adopt a 'with all your heart' attitude and go all out with the positive principle,
you can do incredible things. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Do not build up obstacles in your imagination. Difficulties must be studied and dealt with, but they must not be magnfiied by fear -- Norman Vincent Peale
Great issues develop from small beginnings. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Faith is the most powerful of all forces operating in humanity and when you have it in depth nothing can get you down. -- Norman Vincent Peale
If there is no fun in it, something is wrong with all you are doing. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Getting along with the gang in one place is not any harder than getting along in another. It depends about 98 percent on your own behavior. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Let us move into the New Year with a great sense of the thrill of living. -- Norman Vincent Peale
If you can only believe! If you will only believe! Then nothing, nothing, will be impossible for you! That is the truth and the Gospel, and it is wonderful. It's the good news. -- Norman Vincent Peale
A clean mind always delivers power. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Fear is strong, but faith is stronger yet. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Old unhealthy thoughts can block off inspiration and motivation. Dropping them releases a strong flow of power through the mind. -- Norman Vincent Peale
It takes struggle, a goal and enthusiasm to make a champion. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Knowing how to help people is an art and the person who knows how to do it can always know that he will have the lasting affection of many. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Hold the thought of all elements of the body working together in perfect rhythm. -- Norman Vincent Peale
The cyclone derives its powers from a calm center. So does a person. -- Norman Vincent Peale
If you think in positive terms, you will achieve positive results. -- Norman Vincent Peale
You have a choice everyday ... You can choose every morning whether you will be depressed and miserable, or whether you will be happy. -- Norman Vincent Peale
A vital part of the happiness formula is self-discipline. Whoever conquers himself knows deep happiness that fills the heart with joy. -- Norman Vincent Peale
I expect the best and with God's help will attain the best. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Your enthusiasm will be infectious, stimulating and attractive to others. They will love you for it They will go for you and with you -- Norman Vincent Peale
It is a fact that you project what you are. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Americans used to roar like lions for liberty; now we bleat like sheep for security. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things; first, an ideal which takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for a carrying that ideal into practice. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Today any successful and competent businessman will employ the latest and best-tested methods in production, distribution, and administration. Many are discovering that one of the greatest of all efficiency methods is prayer power. -- Norman Vincent Peale
The secret of life is not in what happens to you. It is in what you do with it that happens to you. -- Norman Vincent Peale
You are greater than anything that can happen to you. In a big and terrifying crisis, people find within themselves a power and a strength and also a wisdom they had no idea they possessed. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You'll find they haven't half the strength you think they have. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Think, the successful idea is always in your mind. Think it out. -- Norman Vincent Peale
The Plus Factor makes its appearance in a person's life in proportion as that person is in harmony with God and His universal laws. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Resentment or grudges do no harm to the person against whom you hold these feelings but every day and every night of your life, they are eating at you. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Forget yourself! Think courage. -- Norman Vincent Peale
No one can ever overcome anything until his thoughts are creative and positive. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Scatter good will and love and prayers all around, everywhere, and you will be astonished, not only by what it does for other people, but how it comes back to you in generous abundance. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Believe you are defeated, believe it long enough, and it is likely to become a fact. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Prayer is more than words. It's listening, seeing and feeling. -- Norman Vincent Peale
My suggestion was that every night, upon going to bed, he place a chair beside his bed and tell himself that Jesus was sitting in that chair all night, watching over him and lifting the burden of worry from his shoulders. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can. -- Norman Vincent Peale
When you discover the wonder of giving, you will wonder how you could have lived so long in any other way. -- Norman Vincent Peale
The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command to deliver mental resources. -- Norman Vincent Peale
People who are really efficient seem to do things easily, with a minimum of effort. In doing so they release maximum power. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Change your thoughts and you change your world. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Thinking about forgiving is not enough. You must come to a moment when you say, "With God's help I now forgive." -- Norman Vincent Peale
Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Think excitement, talk excitement, act out excitement, and you are bound to become an excited person. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Try, really try. Think, really think. Believe, really believe. -- Norman Vincent Peale
The bigger your problems, the bigger your prayer should be. -- Norman Vincent Peale
When we have peace in our hearts, we also have love in our hearts and good will toward all men. -- Norman Vincent Peale
No man is happy who does not think himself so. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Hold an image of the life you want, and that image will become fact. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Talk peaceful to be peaceful. -- Norman Vincent Peale
When a person applies enthusiasm to his job, the job will itself become alive with exciting new possibilities. -- Norman Vincent Peale
If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Stop resisting your problems so furiously in your mind. Stop struggling to solve them. If you do that, a great sense of peace followed by a great sense of power will come to you. -- Norman Vincent Peale
There is only one person with whom to compete and that is yourself. Keep aiming to surpass your own best performance and ever strive to reach higher levels. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Expect the best, not the worst, and you will attain your heart's desire. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Live your life, not your age. -- Norman Vincent Peale
When a problem comes along, study it until you are completely knowledgeable. Then find that weak spot, break the problem apart, and the rest will be easy. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Never think negatively, for the negative thinker does a very dangerous thing. He pumps out negative thoughts into the world around him and thus activates the world negatively. -- Norman Vincent Peale
:You Can overcome any obstacle. You can achieve the most tremendous things by faith power. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Practice excited thinking until you become excited and exciting. -- Norman Vincent Peale
The more you venture to live greatly, the more you will find within you what it takes to get on top of the things and stay there. -- Norman Vincent Peale
You do not need to let anything get you down, but if you are down you certainly need not let anything keep you down. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Go out of your way to talk optimistically about everything. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure . . . will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. LUKE 6:38 -- Norman Vincent Peale
Positive thinking looks upon weak places in people as challenging opportunities. -- Norman Vincent Peale
YOU DO NOT need to be a victim of worry. Reduced to its simplest form, what is worry? It is simply an unhealthy and destructive mental habit. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Miracles are of all sizes. And if you start believing in little miracles, you can work up to the bigger ones. -- Norman Vincent Peale
The Gateway to Christianity is not through an intricate labyrinth of dogma, but by a simple belief in the person of Christ. -- Norman Vincent Peale
When every physical and mental resources is focused, one's power to solve a problem multiplies tremendously. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Do you think Christianity could have lasted for nearly two thousand years on its promises unless the Lord could deliver on them? -- Norman Vincent Peale
As Confucius says, Settle one difficulty and you keep a hundred away. -- Norman Vincent Peale
There is nothing at all wrong with having money unless money has you. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Can you help me?" "Well," I said, "perhaps I can help you help yourself. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Throw your heart over the bar and your body will follow. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Nothing can stand in the way of the man who focuses his entire self on a problem. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Believe that problems do have answers, that they can be overcome, and that you can solve them. -- Norman Vincent Peale
It is always too soon to quit. -- Norman Vincent Peale
There is no sound basis upon which it may be assumed that all poor men are godly and all rich men are evil, no more than it could be assumed that all rich men are good and all poor men are bad. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Dare to be what you ought to be, dare to be what you dream to be, dare to be the finest you can be. The more you dare, the surer you will be of gaining just what you dare! -- Norman Vincent Peale
The only figure in history who endures is Jesus. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Faced with the election of a Catholic, our culture is at stake. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Change yourself and your work will seem different. -- Norman Vincent Peale
And if the mind thinks with a believing attitude one can do amazing things. -- Norman Vincent Peale
