Norman Vincent Peale Quotes

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.

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."

When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.

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.

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

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.

Learn to relax. Your body is precious, as it houses your mind and spirit. Inner peace begins with a relaxed body.

Deep within the individual is a vast reservoir of untapped power awaiting to be used. no person can have the use of all this potential until he learns to know his or her own self. the trouble with many people is that they got through life thinking and writing themselves off as ordinary commonplace persons. having no proper belief in themselves they live aimless and erratic lives largely because they never realize what their lives really can be or what they can become

Never react emotionally to what happens but always look for and find in every circumstance the good that's surely present there.

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.

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.

Always remember that problems contain values that have improvement potential.

There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.

The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results.

The capacity to be either happy or unhappy is determined by the manner in which you react to whatever happens.

Promise yourself success at the beginning of each day, and you'll be surprised how often things will turn out that way.

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.

You became 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.

Whenever a negative thought concerning your personal power comes to mind, deliberately voice a positive thought to cancel it out.

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.

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.

Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun. Change your thoughts and you change your world.

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.

Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.

Fear is never a reason for quitting; it is only an excuse.

Always maintain hopefulness, especially when the going is hard.

I've got great faith in the essential fairness and decency - you may say goodness - of the human being.

Just a moment ago nature put on one of its most spectacular demonstrations.

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.

When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him. You lift the relationship thereby to a higher level. The best in the other person begins to flow out toward you as your best flows toward him. In the meeting of the best in each a higher unity of understanding is established.

Ask for what you want, but be willing to take what God gives you. It may be better than what you asked for.

Believe in yourself, believe in your future.

Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow.

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.

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.

If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.

You will soon break the bow if you keep it always stretched.

One of the greatest of all principles is that men can do what they think they can do.

Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.

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.

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.

If you put off everything till you're sure of it, you'll never get anything done.

If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.

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.

Change your thoughts and you change your world.