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Norman Vincent Peale Quotes

Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (May 31, 1898 – December 24, 1993) was a minister and author (most notably of The Power of Positive Thinking) and a progenitor of the theory of "positive thinking".

What ever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
You must conceive it in your heart and mind before you can receive it. If you believe then all things are possible.
Happiness will never come if it's a goal in itself; happiness is a by-product of a commitment to worthy causes.
Don't take tomorrow to bed with you.
It's always to soon to quit!
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
When you get up in the morning, you have two choices - either to be happy or to be unhappy. Just choose to be happy.
The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourseld, the more energy you will have.
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.
Every individual forms his own estimate of himself and that basic estimate goes far toward determining what he becomes. You can do no more than you believe you can. You can be no more than you believe you are. Belief stimulates power within yourself. Have faith in faith. Don't be afraid to trust faith.
Enthusiasm spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
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.
When obstacles or difficulties arise, the positive thinker takes them as creative opportunities. He welcomes the challenge of a tough problem and looks for ways to turn it to advantage.
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.
Tell yourself every morning as you go to work that you love your job. Think of it as interesting, even fascinating. By so doing you will ultimately get enthusiastic about your work — and you will undoubtedly do a better job.
Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.
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.
You become a worrier by practicing worry. You become free of worry by practicing the opposite.
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.”
Optimism is a philosophy based on the belief that basically life is good, that, in the long run, the good in life overbalances the evil.
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.
Every human being is a child of God and has more good in him than evil — but circumstances and associates can step up the bad and reduce the good. I've got great faith in the essential fairness and decency — you may say goodness — of the human being.
Believe it is possible to solve your problem. Tremendous things happen to the believer. So believe the answer will come. It will.
Believe that problems do have answers. Believe that they can be overcome. Believe that they can be handled. And finally, believe that you can solve them.
Don't duck the most difficult problems. That just ensures that the hardest part will be left when you are most tired. Get the big one done - it's downhill from then on.
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.
Just a moment ago nature put on one of its most spectacular demonstrations.The widest rainbow I have ever seen stretched from the lake over a high snow-clad mountain to touch down in a deep valley in the Alps. There was about this gigantic rainbow a deep benediction of peace and hope. But as ineffable as nature is in the effect of natural beauty on the mind, it cannot match the peace of God in its healing effect on the human mind.
Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You'll find they haven't half the strength you think they have.
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.
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.