Norman Vincent Peale Quotes

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

Norman Vincent Peale
Positive Thinkers get positive results because they appreciate the inestimable value of a day, this day, not the next day, but this day, and every day. Today offers at least sixteen waking hours that may be crammed FULL of opportunity, joy, excitement, and achievement.

Norman Vincent Peale
If you've been full of error and defeat, be done with it. Say, "By God's grace, I'm done with it," and take charge of yourself like never before."

Norman Vincent Peale
Nothing can stand in the way of the man who focuses his entire self on a problem.

Norman Vincent Peale
If you feel afraid, you can make yourself courageous by acting courageous. If you are feeling unhappy, by deliberately acting happy you can induce happy feeling. If you are lacking in enthusiasm, by simply acting enthusiastic you can make yourself enthusiastic.

Norman Vincent Peale
Make a true estimate of your own ability, then raise it ten per cent.

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

Norman Vincent Peale
Never use the word impossible seriously again. Toss it into the verbal wastebucket.

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

Norman Vincent Peale
The Bible tells us that the sins of the fathers are passed to succeeding generations. The virtues of the fathers can be passed along, too.

Norman Vincent Peale
Expecting the best means that you put your whole heart (i.e. the central essence of your personality) into what you want to accomplish. People are defeated in life not because of lack of ability, but for lack of wholeheartedness. They do not wholeheartedly expect to succeed. Their heart isn't in it, which is to say, they themselves are not fully given.

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Affirm it, visualize it, believe it and it will actualize itself.

Norman Vincent Peale
The world in which you live is not primarily determined by outward conditions and circumstances but by the thoughts that habitually occupy your mind.

Norman Vincent Peale
Every night empty your mind of unhappy thoughts as you empty your pockets and come alive.

Norman Vincent Peale
Decide that you will not try to do everything at once. That is why time is spread out.

Norman Vincent Peale
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

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Hope is wanting something so eagerly that-in spite of all the evidence that you're not going to get it-you go right on wanting it.

Norman Vincent Peale
The as if principle works. Act as if you were not afraid and you will become courageous, as if you could and you'll find you can. Act as if you like a person and you'll find a friendship.

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

Norman Vincent Peale
Develop a tremendous faith in God and that will give you a humble yet soundly realistic faith in yourself.

Norman Vincent Peale
When you keep asserting that things are going to work out well, that you can do the job, that you will not have a flat tire, that you will get there on time, by talking up good results you invoke the law of positive effects and good results occur. Things do turn out well.

Norman Vincent Peale
Often we have no choice about doing things, but we can always choose how to do them.

Norman Vincent Peale
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
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.

Norman Vincent Peale
When you expect the best you release a magnetic force in your mind which by a law of attraction tends to bring the best to you.

Norman Vincent Peale
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.

Norman Vincent Peale
Stress the thought of plenty. Thoughts of plenty help create plenty.

Norman Vincent Peale
Every day remind yourself of your own ability, of your good mind and affirm that you can make something really good out of your life.

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

Norman Vincent Peale
When we have peace in our hearts, we also have love in our hearts and good will toward all men.

Norman Vincent Peale