Norman Vincent Peale Quotes

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.

Be interesting, be enthusiastic... and don't talk too much.

When every physical and mental resources is focused, one's power to solve a problem multiplies tremendously.

The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.

Good intentions are no substitute for obedience.

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.

Listen for the magic word of motivation and you will hear it. And then? Well, the sky is the limit!

Think, the successful idea is always in your mind. Think it out.

Never forget that all the enthusiasm you need is in your mind. Let it out - let it live - let it motivate you.

When you wholeheartedly adopt a 'with all your heart' attitude and go all out with the positive principle, you can do incredible things.

Live your life and forget your age.

You have to picturize, prayerize and actualize.

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.

Christmas is the season of joy, of holiday greetings exchanged, of gift-giving,and of families united.

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.

The word resentment means to re-feel...to feel again. Someone wrongs or wounds you; in resenting it, you re-feel the injury. And you re-hurt yourself. The Hebrew Talmud says that a person who bears a grudge is "Like one who, having cut one hand while handling a knife, avenges himself by stabbing the other hand."

If you have zest and enthusiasm you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind.

Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.

A vital part of the happiness formula is self-discipline. Whoever conquers himself knows deep happiness that fills the heart with joy.

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.

It is always to early to quit.

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.

Any fact facing us, however difficult, even seemingly hopeless, is not so important as our attitude toward that fact. How you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You may permit a fact to overwhelm you mentally before you deal with it actually. On the other hand, a confident and optimistic thought pattern can overcome or modify the fact altogether.

God is with me, helping me.

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!

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.

Remember: what you think you will become - good or bad, weak or strong, defeated or victorious.

Picturize, prayerize, actualize.

There are some things you can't learn from others. You have to pass through the fire.

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.

Never tell yourself ... I can't go on. If you do you're licked, and by your own thinking too.

Don't bother. The glass is half-empty.

Four things for success: work and pray, think and believe.

When I dig another out of trouble, the hole from which I lift him is the place where I bury my own.

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.

Never use the word “impossible” seriously again. Toss it into the verbal wastebucket.

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

If there is no fun in it, something is wrong with all you are doing.

Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex.

We tend to get what we expect.

The mind quickly responds to teaching and discipline. You can make the mind give you back anything you want.

Remember that "Help us grow this grass" is a far more effective sign than "Keep off the grass".

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.

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.

We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.

Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do.

Develop a tremendous faith in God and that will give you a humble yet soundly realistic faith in yourself.

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.