Norman Vincent Peale
American minister and author of The Power of Positive Thinking, 1898-1993
24 quotes.
Quotes by Norman Vincent Peale
- A sign of mental health is to be glad when others achieve, and to rejoice with them.
- Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result but the cause of fear.
- 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.
- Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
- Change your thoughts and you change your world.
- Empty pockets never held anyone back...it's only empty heads and empty hearts that do it.
- Every problem contains within itself the seeds of its own solution.
- Happiness will never come if it’s a goal in itself; happiness is a by-product of a commitment to worthy causes.
- If you put off everything till you're sure of it, you'll get nothing done.
- If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.
- It’s always to soon to quit.
- Never compare yourself or your achievements with others, but make your comparisons only with yourself.
- 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.
- So what are you afraid of? What is holding you back? What is it that stands in your way? Do it!
- Stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade.
- The antidote to frustration is a calm faith, not in your own cleverness, or in hard toil, but in God’s guidance.
- The controlled person is a powerful person. He who always keeps his head will always get ahead. Edwin Markham said, "At the heart of the cyclone tearing the sky is a place of central calm." The cyclone derives its power from a calm center. So does a person.
- The secret of life isn’t what happens to you, but what you do with what happens to you.
- 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.
- There is real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment. … It gives warmth and good feeling to all your personal relationships.
- 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.
- 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.
- Within every problem is a gift that God has for you.
- Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems you don't get any seeds.