Norman Vincent Peale Quotes

The bigger your problems, the bigger your prayer should be.

The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.

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.

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.

Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.

Begin where you are. Don't wait for someone else to change things for you. Do it yourself

Every individual forms his own estimate of himself and that basic estimate goes far toward determining what he becomes.

People who are really efficient seem to do things easily, with a minimum of effort. In doing so they release maximum power.

It's always too early to quit.

Keep your mental and spiritual contact points cleaned so that God can operate through your mind.

Nothing can stand in the way of the man who focuses his entire self on a problem.

To have a mind full of peace, merely fill it full of peace. It's as simple as that.

Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

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.

Believe and create is a basic fact of successful living.

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

When you get up in the morning, you have two choices - either to be happy or to be unhappy. Just choose to be happy

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.

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.

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.

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.

Humans will never be hampered as smooth bag. They just dragged and dropped upon his head and empty heart

Americans used to roar like lions for liberty; now we bleat like sheep for security.

Only the believers pick up the prizes in life.

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.

Imagination is the true magic carpet.

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.

Any action is better than no action at all.

The power of the Plus Factor is potential but it is not self-activating. It is latent in human beings and will remain latent until it is activated.

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.

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure.

Stress the thought of plenty. Thoughts of plenty help create plenty.

Make a mental list of happy thoughts and pass them through your mind several times every day.

Expect great things, and great things will come.

The controlled person is a powerful person. He who always keeps his head will get ahead.

I was brought up on the romance of American achievement. No matter where you start, if you work hard and if you think positively and if you dream dreams and if you have good character, you can lift the status of yourself, your family, your friends and everyone around you. This doesn't mean that your object in life is to become rich or famous. Just do the best you can with yourself. I think that Almighty God has put that into us and I'm going to do the best I can with myself. That's what I call the romance of achievement. Achievement means to be what, by the grace of God, you can be.

You can make yourself enthusiastic by affirming enthusiasm and by thinking, talking, acting enthusiastic.

Do not let circumstances defeat you. You can if you think you can.

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.

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." ~

Believe that all the resources you need are in your mind. That is a formula that really works.

Expecting the best means that you put your whole heart (i.e. the central essence of your personality) into what you want to accomplish. People are defeated in life not because of lack of ability, but for lack of wholeheartedness. They do not wholeheartedly expect to succeed. Their heart isn't in it, which is to say, they themselves are not fully given.

Old unhealthy thoughts can block off inspiration and motivation. Dropping them releases a strong flow of power through the mind.

Only the person who risks is truly free. A man's conquest of himself dwarfs the conquest of Mt. Everest.

What is hope? Hope is wishing for a thing to come true; faith is believing that it will come true.

The world in which you live is not primarily determined by outward conditions and circumstances but by the thoughts that habitually occupy your mind.

Don't take tomorrow to bed with you.

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.