Norman Vincent Peale quotes:

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.

Change your thoughts and you change your world.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Live your life and forget your age.

First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, I believe.

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

Imagination is the true magic carpet.

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.

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

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

It's always too early to quit.

Stand up to an obstacle. Just stand up to it, that's all, and don't give way under it, and it will finally break. You will break it. Something has to break, and it won't be you, it will be the obstacle."

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." ~

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

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

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

Check what you did right and don't get lost in basking on your glory. It will make it easier to repeat whatever you did that created the success.

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.

Don't take tomorrow to bed with you.

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

Believe in yourself, believe in your future.

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.

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

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear.

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.

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

Cherish your family connections. They are one of God's greatest ways of demonstrating his love and fellowship.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

The Gateway to Christianity is not through an intricate labyrinth of dogma, but by a simple belief in the person of Christ.

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.

Today remind yourself that nothing is too good to be true. Your great hopes can be realized. Your most wonderful dreams can come true. All that you really need, you can have. An incredible goodness is operating on your behalf. If you are living a paltry life, resolve to stop it today. Expect great things to happen.

The really happy people are those who have broken the chains of procrastination, those who find satisfaction in doing the job at hand. They're full of eagerness, zest, productivity. You can be, too.

Life is not all fun and easy going. Far from it; there are many rough times. But, sadly, we too often let the hard times dull our enthusiasm. And that is dangerous, if not fatal, to our lives.

Humans will never be hampered as smooth bag. They just dragged and dropped upon his head and empty heart

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.

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

The positive thinker is a hard-headed, tough-minded, and factual realist. He sees all the difficulties clearly... which is more than can be said for the average negative thinker. But he sees more than difficulties - he tries to see the solutions of those difficulties.

There are two primary forces in this world, fear and faith. Fear can move you to destructiveness or sickness or failure. Only in rare instances will it motivate you to accomplishment. But faith is a greater force. Faith can drive itself into your consciousness and set you free from fear forever.

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.

We tend to get what we expect.

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.

Getting along with the gang in one place is not any harder than getting along in another. It depends about 98 percent on your own behavior.

God answers prayer in three ways: yes, no, and wait awhile.

I truly believe that the individual who learns to practice thanksgiving activates within himself and around himself continuous victories and blessings from God.

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."

Remind yourself that God is with you and nothing can defeat him.

Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.

We live in the midst of the greatest scientific civilization in the history of the world. But the greatest wisdom walking our streets is not in any laboratory scientist, but the wisdom of Jesus Christ.

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.

Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.

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.

You must never conclude, even though everything goes wrong, that you cannot succeed. Even at the worst there is a way out, a hidden secret that can turn failure into success and despair into happiness. No situation is so dark that there is not a ray of light

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.

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.

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.

Always maintain hopefulness, especially when the going is hard.

Realize that there are not hopeless situations; there are only people who take hopeless attitudes.

Remember, there is no situation so completely hopeless that something constructive cannot be done about it. When faced with a minus, ask yourself what you can do to make it a plus. A person practicing this attitude will extract undreamed-of outcomes from the most unpromising situations. Realize that there are no hopeless situations; there are only people who take hopeless attitudes.

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.

Old unhealthy thoughts can block off inspiration and motivation. Dropping them releases a strong flow of power through the mind.

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.

Keep thinking, keep interested, keep praying, keep dreaming. Be mentally sensitive at all times so that the magic word that motivates you may one day speak to your deep inner self.

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.

Yesterday ended last night. Every day is a new beginning. Learn the skill of forgetting. And move on.

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.

Just as we may learn from our successes (how to do it) so also can we learn from our mistakes (how not to do it). It just isn't in the cards that anybody should get by forever without making mistakes and perhaps sometimes making costly ones.

Let go and let God. Let Him take over your life and run it. He knows how.

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.

Jesus is not a memory. He is an actual, contemporary, reachable Person. He is the living Christ, who has the power to enter into people's lives and change and lift them up.

It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small matters over a period of years. But the catch is that you can never know when a seemingly small decision may prove to be, from the vantage of later years, the big decision of your life.

Be humble, be big in mind and soul, be kindly; you will like yourself that way and so will other people

I believe there are two sides to the phenomenon known as death, this side where we live, and the other side where we shall continue to live. Eternity does not start ith death. We are in eternity now.

Only the person who risks is truly free. A man's conquest of himself dwarfs the conquest of Mt. Everest.

Avoid arguments, but whenever a negative attitude is expressed, counter with a positive and optimistic opinion.

Negative thinking definitely attracts negative results.

Whenever a negative thought concerning your personal power comes to mind, deliberately voice a positive thought to cancel it out.

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!

One person can make a difference. You don't have to be a big shot. You don't have to have a lot of influence. You just have to have faith in your power to change things.

Go forward confidently, energetically attacking problems, expecting favorable outcomes.

A peaceful mind generates power.

Optimism, when applied to your life, develops strength and peace within you.

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.

No matter how dark things become, someone is always with you - and that someone is God. He helps by giving you peace and a positive mental attitude.

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

When obstacles or difficulties arise, the positive thinker takes them as creative opportunities.

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

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.

Make a list of your friends and determine who is the most positive thinker among them and deliberately cultivate his society.

The positive thinker, on the contrary, constantly sends out positive thoughts, together with vital mental images of hope, optimism and creativity. He therefore activates the world around him positively and strongly tends to draw back to himself positive results. This, too, is a basic law of mind action.