All Quotes by Norman Vincent Peale
“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.”
“People who belittle people, will be LITTLE people, and will accomplish very Little”
“What the mind can conceive and believe, and the heart desire, you can achieve.”
“Imagination is the true magic carpet.”
“Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.”
“Change your thoughts and you change your world.”
“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.”
“Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.”
“It's always too early to quit.”
“What the mind can conceive and believe, and the heart desire, you can achieve.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.”
“Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.”
“Change yourself and your work will seem different.”
“The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.”
“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.”
“It's always too early to quit.”
“Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.”
“Four things for success: work and pray, think and believe.”
“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.”
“The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.”
“Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.”
“We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.”
“Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.”
“If you put off everything till you're sure of it, you'll never get anything done.”
“Imagination is the true magic carpet.”
“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.”
“Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.”
“Change yourself and your work will seem different.”
“Don't take tomorrow to bed with you.”
“If you have zest and enthusiasm you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind.”
“Be interesting, be enthusiastic... and don't talk too much.”
“Change your thoughts and you change your world.”
“Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.”
“Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.”
“Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.”
“There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.”
“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.”
“The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.”
“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.”
“Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex.”
“Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.”
“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.”
“When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.”
“If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.”
“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.”
“We tend to get what we expect.”
“The Gateway to Christianity is not through an intricate labyrinth of dogma, but by a simple belief in the person of Christ.”
“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.”
“You will soon break the bow if you keep it always stretched.”
“When every physical and mental resources is focused, one's power to solve a problem multiplies tremendously.”
“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.”
“Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.”
“When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.”
“Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.”
“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.”
“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.”
“In a large congregation, while there is a wide diversification of interest, it is also true that there are only a few basic human problems. It must also be taken into consideration that people are people regardless of who they are or what their backgrounds may be. There are certain deep universal appeals to human interest and to these human nature always responds.”
“Faced with the election of a Catholic, our culture is at stake.”
“Every human being is a child of God and has more good in him than evil — but circumstances and associates can step up the bad and reduce the good. I've got great faith in the essential fairness and decency — you may say goodness — of the human being.”
“It's not necessary to be born again. You have your way to God, I have mine. 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.”
“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.”
“When obstacles or difficulties arise, the positive thinker takes them as creative opportunities. He welcomes the challenge of a tough problem and looks for ways to turn it to advantage.”
“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.”
“Who is God? Some theological being? He is so much greater than theology. God is vitality. God is life. God is energy. As you breathe God in, as you visualize His energy, you will be reenergized!”
“Believe that problems do have answers. Believe that they can be overcome. Believe that they can be handled. And finally, believe that you can solve them.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Happiness will never come if it's a goal in itself; happiness is a by-product of a commitment to worthy causes.”
“If you put off everything till you're sure of it, you'll get nothing done.”
“Change your thoughts and you can change the world.”
“Change your thoughts and you change your world.”
“Empty pockets never held anyone back...it's only empty heads and empty hearts that do it.”
“Every individual forms his own estimate of himself and that basic estimate goes far toward determining what he becomes. You can do no more than you believe you can. You can be no more than you believe you are. Belief stimulates power within yourself. Have faith in faith. Don't be afraid to trust faith.”
“The dynamic and positive attitude is a strong magnetic force which, by its very nature, attracts good results. This, of course, does not mean you will get everything you want. When you live on a faith basis your desire will be only for that which you can ask in God's name. But whatever you should have, whatever is good for you will be granted.”
“It's always too early to quit.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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!”
“So what are you afraid of? What is holding you back? What is it that stands in your way? Do it!”
“Sometimes we see people persevering in the face of what seem to be insuperable odds. When that happens, I can't help but think that through their Plus Factor information has been conveyed to them that even they are unaware of.”
“Of vast importance in achieving peace of mind is dealing with the contents of mind itself: the mass of all ill thoughts you have stored up over the years, all the regrets, all the futilities, all the hidden sins, all the hates, all the grudges, all the vindictiveness. The minds of many people are filled with pockets of poison.”
“Tell yourself every morning as you go to work that you love your job. Think of it as interesting, even fascinating. By so doing you will ultimately get enthusiastic about your work — and you will undoubtedly do a better job.”
“Just a moment ago nature put on one of its most spectacular demonstrations.The widest rainbow I have ever seen stretched from the lake over a high snow-clad mountain to touch down in a deep valley in the Alps. There was about this gigantic rainbow a deep benediction of peace and hope. But as ineffable as nature is in the effect of natural beauty on the mind, it cannot match the peace of God in its healing effect on the human mind.”
“When you get up in the morning, you have two choices - either to be happy or to be unhappy. Just choose to be happy.”
“Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.”
“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.”