Norman Vincent Peale Quotes

Change your thoughts and you change your world.

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

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.

A positive thinker does not refuse to recognize the negative; he refuses to dwell on it. Positive thinking is a form of thought which habitually looks for the best results from the worst conditions

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.

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

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

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.

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." ~

You have a choice everyday... You can choose every morning whether you will be depressed and miserable, or whether you will be happy.

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

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.

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

Live your life and forget your age.

Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.

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

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

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

The cyclone derives its powers from a calm center. So does a person.

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

The only people who don't have problems are in a cemetery.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Do not build up obstacles in your imagination. Difficulties must be studied and dealt with, but they must not be magnfiied by fear

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!

People fail to understand that unless they are themselves willing to give, they will never receive.

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

Take a new look at your present "impossible." Consider positive ways to handle it.

Four things for success: work and pray, think and believe.

We tend to get what we expect.

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.

Whatever your problem, no matter how difficult, you can release spiritual power sufficient to solve your problem. The secret is--pray and believe.

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.

The greatest risk in life is to risk nothing. The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing and becomes nothing.

A basic law: the more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for.

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

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

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

We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.

Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit.

To cure worry, spend fifteen minutes daily filling your mind full of God. Worry is just a very bad mental habit. You can change any habit with God's help.

Trouble is here. It is for a purpose. Use it for the purpose for which it was intended - to help you grow. Thank God for your troubles.

Don't take tomorrow to bed with you.

Expect great things, and great things will come.

I expect the best and with God's help will attain the best.