Norman Vincent Peale Quotes

Who decides whether you shall be happy or unhappy? You do!

If Jesus were alive today, he'd probably be at the Super Bowl.

And if the mind thinks with a believing attitude one can do amazing things.

Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.

Nobody ever mastered any skill except through intensive persistent and intelligent practice.

You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.

Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind.

You have a choice everyday... You can choose every morning whether you will be depressed and miserable, or whether you will be happy.

Put your trust in God and just go calmly on your way.

Learn from both your mistakes and successes because if you learn only from your mistakes you will only learn more errors

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.

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.

It is indeed possible for those who have the will, courage and faith.

Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.

Motivation is like nutrition. It must be taken daily and in healthy doses to keep it going

Good will cannot flow toward you unless it flows from you.

Avoid arguments, but whenever a negative attitude is expressed, counter with a positive and optimistic opinion.

When learning stops, decay sets in.

The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.

How you think about a problem is more important than the problem itself. So always think positively.

Optimism, when applied to your life, develops strength and peace within you.

Go out of your way to talk optimistically about everything.

Masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

Decide that you will not try to do everything at once. That is why time is spread out.

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.

The man who lives for himself is a failure; the man who lives for others has achieved true success.

The Gateway to Christianity is not through an intricate labyrinth of dogma, but by a simple belief in the person of Christ.

Great issues develop from small beginnings.

Nothing during the year is so impressively convincing as the vision Christmas brings of what this world would be if love became the daily practice of human beings.

Become a possibilitarian.

Plant seeds of expectation in your mind; cultivate thoughts that anticipate achievement. Believe in yourself as being capable of overcoming all obstacles and weaknesses.

The only people who don't have problems are in a cemetery.

Be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind. Talk health, happiness, and prosperity to every person you meet. Make all your friends feel there is something special in them. Look at the sunny side of everything. Think only the best, be as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own. Forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future. Give everyone a smile. Spend so much time improving yourself that you have no time left to criticize others. Be too big for worry and too noble for anger.

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

Positive thinking is how you think about a problem. Enthusiasm is how you feel about a problem. The two together determine what you do about a problem.

Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.

Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.

Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit.

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.

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.

Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all that you do. It tones up your physical vitality and gives warmth to all your personal relationships. When you associate with enthusiasm long enough it grabs you and takes over within you.

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.

If you think in positive terms, you will achieve positive results.

Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.

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.

Believe it is possible to solve your problem. Tremendous things happen to the believer. So believe the answer will come. It will.

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.

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.