Norman Vincent Peale famous quotes

Change your thoughts and you change your world.
-- Norman Vincent Peale

#Inspirational #Motivational #Change

Christmas is the season of joy, of holiday greetings exchanged, of gift-giving,and of families united.
-- Norman Vincent Peale

#Christmas #Holiday #Giving

Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.
-- Norman Vincent Peale

#Hope #Victory #Use

If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.
-- Norman Vincent Peale

#Inspirational #Life #Change

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.
-- Norman Vincent Peale

#Inspirational #Life #Motivational

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.
-- Norman Vincent Peale

#Love #Motivational #Family

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." ~
-- Norman Vincent Peale

#Happiness #Attitude #Laughter

Live your life and forget your age.
-- Norman Vincent Peale

#Time #Live Your Life #Age

The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
-- Norman Vincent Peale

#Inspirational #Integrity #Yoga

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.
-- Norman Vincent Peale

#Inspirational #Strong #Mistake

The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
-- Norman Vincent Peale

#Success #Dance #Positivity

Think excitement, talk excitement, act out excitement, and you are bound to become an excited person. Life will take on a new nest, deeper interest and greater meaning. You can think, talk and act yourself into dullness or into monotony or into unhappiness. By the same process you can build up inspiration, excitement and surging depth of joy.
-- Norman Vincent Peale

#Inspiration #Positivity #Thinking

Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.
-- Norman Vincent Peale

#Inspirational #Motivational #Positive Thinking

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.
-- Norman Vincent Peale

#Inspirational #Life #Positive

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

#Inspirational #Procrastination #Done

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.
-- Norman Vincent Peale

#Inspirational #Positive #Happiness

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.
-- Norman Vincent Peale

#Motivational #Self Confidence #Abuse

Fill the day with enthusiasm. Give the day all you've got and it will give you all it's got, which will be plenty.
-- Norman Vincent Peale

#Giving #Enthusiasm #Plenty

Let a series of happy thoughts run through your mind. They will show on your face.
-- Norman Vincent Peale

#Running #Mind #Happy Thoughts

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.
-- Norman Vincent Peale

#Believe #Grieving #Gone

If you have zest and enthusiasm you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind.
-- Norman Vincent Peale

#Positive #Breakup #Encouragement

Go forward confidently, energetically attacking problems, expecting favorable outcomes.
-- Norman Vincent Peale

#Attitude #Outcomes #Problem

Thinking about forgiving is not enough. You must come to a moment when you say, "With God's help I now forgive."
-- Norman Vincent Peale

#Forgiveness #Thinking #Forgiving

God never made anyone else exactly like you, and he never will again. Thank him for yourself and then for all the rest of his glorious handiwork.
-- Norman Vincent Peale

#Wisdom #Like You #Made

When you affirm big, believe big and pray big, big things happen.
-- Norman Vincent Peale

#Believe #Praying #Bigs

If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up.
-- Norman Vincent Peale

#Perseverance #Giving Up #Want

Never let any mistake cause you to stop believing in yourself. Learn from it and go on.
-- Norman Vincent Peale

#Mistake #Believe #Goes On

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

#Inspirational #Thinking #Important

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

#Inspirational #Strength #Adversity

Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate.
-- Norman Vincent Peale

#Mind #Habit #Habits Of Mind

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.
-- Norman Vincent Peale

#Inspirational #Life #Motivational

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

#Happiness #Happy #Inspiration

We tend to get what we expect.
-- Norman Vincent Peale

#Clever #Addiction #Ironic

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

#Positive #Attitude #Important

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.
-- Norman Vincent Peale

#Mistake #Past #Giving

Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
-- Norman Vincent Peale

#Life #Positive #Broken Heart

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.
-- Norman Vincent Peale

#Positive #Thinking #Law

Don't take tomorrow to bed with you.
-- Norman Vincent Peale

#Worry #Bed #Tomorrow

If you are not getting as much from life as you want to, then examine the state of your enthusiasm.
-- Norman Vincent Peale

#Enthusiasm #Want #States

To be successful is to be helpful, caring and constructive, to make everything and everyone you touch a little bit better.
-- Norman Vincent Peale

#Successful #Caring #Littles

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
-- Norman Vincent Peale

#Self Esteem #Moving #People

Think enthusiastically about everything; but especially about your job. If you do so, you'll put a touch of glory in your life. If you love your job with enthusiasm, you'll shake it to pieces.
-- Norman Vincent Peale

#Jobs #Love You #Teaching

Change yourself and your work will seem different.
-- Norman Vincent Peale

#Inspirational #Change #Perspective

Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it yourself. In giving it, you will accumulate a deposit of joy greater than you ever believed possible.
-- Norman Vincent Peale

#Giving #Joy #Trying

Even if you may be down to the worst, the best is potentially within you. You only have to find it, release it, and rise up with it. This requires courage and character, to be sure, but the main requirement is faith. Cultivate faith and you will have the necessary courage and character.
-- Norman Vincent Peale

#Character #Recovery #May

Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex.
-- Norman Vincent Peale

#Action #Enough #Habit

A positive thinker does not refuse to recognize the negative; he refuses to dwell on it.
-- Norman Vincent Peale

#Doe #Negative #Thinker

Imagination is the true magic carpet.
-- Norman Vincent Peale

#Art #Imagination #Magic

Nothing of great value in this life comes easily.
-- Norman Vincent Peale

#This Life #Values

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.
-- Norman Vincent Peale

#Positive #Thinking #Two

Americans used to roar like lions for liberty; now we bleat like sheep for security.
-- Norman Vincent Peale

#Gun #Sheep #Liberty

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

#Wrestling #Blow #Fire

Frequently remind yourself that God is with you, that He will never fail you, that you can count upon him. Say these words, "God is with me, helping me."
-- Norman Vincent Peale

#Faith #Helping #Failing

It takes struggle, a goal and enthusiasm to make a champion.
-- Norman Vincent Peale

#Struggle #Commitment #Goal

One of the most powerful concepts, one which is a sure cure for lack of confidence, is the thought that God is with you and helping you. This is one of the simplest teachings in religion, namely, that Almighty God will be your companion, will stand by you, help you, and see you through. No other idea is so powerful in developing self-confidence as this simple belief when practiced. To practice it simply affirm "God is with me; God is helping me; God is guiding me." Spend several minutes each day visualizing his presence. Then practice believing that affirmation.
-- Norman Vincent Peale

#God #Powerful #Believe

Be an all-out, not a hold-out.
-- Norman Vincent Peale

#Sports

If you visualize a failure, you tend to create the conditions that produce failure. Visualize-believe-and thank God in advance.
-- Norman Vincent Peale

#Success #Believe #Thank God

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

#Perseverance #Strong #Exercise

Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit.
-- Norman Vincent Peale

#Life #Hope #Practice

You don't have to be tired and bored. Get interested in something. Get absolutely enthralled in something. Throw yourself into it with abandon.
-- Norman Vincent Peale

#Tired #Bored #Abandon

Faith is the most powerful of all forces operating in humanity and when you have it in depth nothing can get you down.
-- Norman Vincent Peale

#Faith #Powerful #Humanity

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
-- Norman Vincent Peale

#Writing #Thinking #Self

Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do.
-- Norman Vincent Peale

#Motivational #Adversity #Challenges

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.
-- Norman Vincent Peale

#Night #Feelings #Resentment

You will soon break the bow if you keep it always stretched.
-- Norman Vincent Peale

#Love #Dream #Work

Once we roared like lions for liberty; now we bleat like sheep for security! The solution for America's problem is not in terms of big government, but it is in big men over whom nobody stands in control but God.
-- Norman Vincent Peale

#God #Men #America

There are no circumstances in your life where God will not stand will not stand with you and help you, no matter what the trouble may be.
-- Norman Vincent Peale

#Religion #May #Matter

Throw back the shoulders, let the heart sing, let the eyes flash, let the mind be lifted up, look upward and say to yourself ... nothing is impossible!
-- Norman Vincent Peale

#Eye #Heart #Optimism

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

#Baby #Funny Life #Promise

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

#Attitude #Real #Differences

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

#Happiness #Fighting #Victory

There is only one group of people who do not have problems, and they are all dead. Problems are a sign of life, so the more problems you have, the more alive you are.
-- Norman Vincent Peale

#People #Groups #Alive

Think excitement, talk excitement, act out excitement, and you are bound to become an excited person.
-- Norman Vincent Peale

#Inspirational #Karma #Thinking

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.
-- Norman Vincent Peale

#Quality #Acting #Want

If you expect the best, you will be the best. Learn to use one of the most powerful laws in this world; change your mental habits to belief instead of disbelief. Learn to expect, not to doubt. In so doing, you bring everything into the realm of possibility.
-- Norman Vincent Peale

#Powerful #Law #Goal

Never react emotionally to criticism. Analyze yourself to determine whether it is justified. If it is, correct yourself. Otherwise, go on about your business.
-- Norman Vincent Peale

#Emotional #Criticism #Goes On

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

#Understanding #May #Overcoming

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.
-- Norman Vincent Peale

#Inspirational #Positive #Success

Get the heat and emotion out worry, and put cold, ruthless scrutiny onto the problem, and worry loses its power. When we are worried and filled with apprehension, we become panicky and are likely to see only gloom and failure. There isn't any situation so bad that it won't become a lot better when you think rationally - and spiritually - about it. God gives you the ability to think rationally about things by filling you with peace and faith.
-- Norman Vincent Peale

#Faith #Thinking #Giving

Go to inspirational meetings, get to know men and women who are doing inspiring things. Above all, run as hard as you can from the cynics and gripers and the negativists. They are not going anywhere. You are.
-- Norman Vincent Peale

#Running #Men #Get To Know Me

We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.
-- Norman Vincent Peale

#Motivational #Struggle #Simplicity

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

#Inspirational #Motivational #Positive

I change my thoughts, I change my world.
-- Norman Vincent Peale

#World #My Thoughts

The cyclone derives its powers from a calm center. So does a person.
-- Norman Vincent Peale

#Peace #Cyclones #Doe

When you are afraid, do the thing you are afraid of and soon you will lose your fear of it.
-- Norman Vincent Peale

#Inspirational #Motivational #Overcoming

Your enthusiasm will be infectious, stimulating and attractive to others. They will love you for it They will go for you and with you
-- Norman Vincent Peale

#Love You #Enthusiasm #Attractive

You can do amazing things if you have strong faith, deep desire, and just hang in there.
-- Norman Vincent Peale

#Faith #Strong #Desire

Silence fertilizes the deep place where personality grows. A life with a peaceful center can weather all storms.
-- Norman Vincent Peale

#Weather #Silence #Personality

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.
-- Norman Vincent Peale

#Hands #Loved Ones #Lord

When every physical and mental resources is focused, one's power to solve a problem multiplies tremendously.
-- Norman Vincent Peale

#Strength #Power #Mental Illness

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.
-- Norman Vincent Peale

#Inspirational #Attitude #Serenity

I expect the best and with God's help will attain the best.
-- Norman Vincent Peale

#Helping #Values

A peaceful mind generates power.
-- Norman Vincent Peale

#Peaceful #Mind #Peace Of Mind

The mind, properly controlled, can do just about everything. You can think your way through adversity, you can think your way through problems. It is a superpowerful instrument which so few use to maximum. And if the mind thinks with a believing attitude one can do amazing things.
-- Norman Vincent Peale

#Attitude #Believe #Adversity

The antidote to frustration is a calm faith, not in your own cleverness, or in hard toil, but in God's guidance.
-- Norman Vincent Peale

#Faith #Frustration #Toil

You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.
-- Norman Vincent Peale

#Peace #Joy #Mind

Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow.
-- Norman Vincent Peale

#Inspirational #Positive #Leadership

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

#Inspirational #Positive #World

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.
-- Norman Vincent Peale

#Positive #Dream #Believe

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.
-- Norman Vincent Peale

#Strength #Encouraging #Determined