Norman Vincent Peale Quotes

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.

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

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

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

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.

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." ~

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.

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

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.

Live your life and forget your age.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Imagination is the true magic carpet.

Don't take tomorrow to bed with you.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Resentment or grudges do no harm to the person against whom you hold these feelings but every day and every night of your life, they are eating at you.

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

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

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

The 'how' thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile 'ifs'.

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

The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command to deliver mental resources.

Today any successful and competent businessman will employ the latest and best-tested methods in production, distribution, and administration. Many are discovering that one of the greatest of all efficiency methods is prayer power.

Believe you are defeated, believe it long enough, and it is likely to become a fact.

When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self - giving is a personal power - releasing factor.

Lots of people limit their possibilities by giving up easily. Never tell yourself this is too much for me. It's no use. I can't go on. If you do you're licked, and by your own thinking too. Keep believing and keep on keeping on.

When a problem comes along, study it until you are completely knowledgeable. Then find that weak spot, break the problem apart, and the rest will be easy.

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.

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

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 struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.

A masterful retreat is itself a victory.

In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it.

Life's blows cannot break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm.

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.

Problems are to the mind what exercise is to the muscles, they toughen and make strong.

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.