Norman Vincent Peale Quotes
Most popular Norman Vincent Peale Quotes

To go fast, row slowly.

We tend to get what we expect.

Live your life and forget your age.

Imagination is the true magic carpet.

It is a fact that you project what you are.

Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.

Change your thoughts and you change your world.

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

Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.

We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.

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

When you believe in yourself, you have the first secret of success.

Never mention the worst. Never think of it. Drop it out of your consciousness.

Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself.

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

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

When you affirm big, believe big and pray big, putting faith into action, big things happen.

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

Realize that there are no hopeless situations; there are only people who take hopeless attitudes.

Americans are so tense and keyed up that it is impossible even to put them to sleep with a sermon.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Think positively about yourself, keep your thoughts and your actions clean, ask God Who made you to keep on remaking you.

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.

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

Problems are to the mind what exercise is to the muscles, they toughen and make strong. Problems make one better able to cope with life.

People must be taught to realize that in faith they have a mechanism and power by which they can actually live victorious, happy, and successful lives.

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.

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.

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.

Think enthusiastically about everything; but especially about your job. If you do, you'll put a touch of glory in your life. If you love your job with enthusiasm, you'll shake it to pieces. You'll love it into greatness.
The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved with criticism.