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.
—Norman Vincent Peale
Topics: Happiness
Don’t take tomorrow to bed with you.
—Norman Vincent Peale
Topics: Worry
It’s always too soon to quit!
—Norman Vincent Peale
Your enthusiasm will be infectious, stimulating and attractive to others. They will love you for it. They will go for you and with you.
—Norman Vincent Peale
Topics: Adversity, Business, Enthusiasm, Attitude, Belief
Imagination is the true magic carpet.
—Norman Vincent Peale
Topics: Imagination
When every physical and mental resources is focused, one’s power to solve a problem multiplies tremendously.
—Norman Vincent Peale
Topics: Concentration
Think positively about yourself…. ask God who made you to keep on remaking you.
—Norman Vincent Peale
Topics: Self-Discovery
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.
—Norman Vincent Peale
Topics: Satisfaction, Self-love
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.
—Norman Vincent Peale
Topics: Vision, Success
There is nothing in life so difficult that it cannot be overcome. This faith can move mountains. It can change people. It can change the world. You can survive all the great storms in your life.
—Norman Vincent Peale
The cyclone derives its powers from a calm center. So does a person.
—Norman Vincent Peale
Topics: Self-Control
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.
—Norman Vincent Peale
Topics: Serenity, Self Confidence
Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.
—Norman Vincent Peale
Topics: Defeat, Hope
The tests of life are not meant to break you, but to make you.
—Norman Vincent Peale
What the mind can conceive and believe, and the heart desire, you can achieve.
—Norman Vincent Peale
All successful people have a goal. No one can get anywhere unless he knows where he wants to go and what he wants to be or do.
—Norman Vincent Peale
Topics: Goal
Happiness consists not in having, but of being, not of possessing, but of enjoying. It is the warm glow of a heart at peace with itself.
—Norman Vincent Peale
Topics: Joy
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.
—Norman Vincent Peale
Topics: Self Confidence, Strength
Today any successful and competent businessman will employ the latest and best-tested methods in production, distribution, and administration, and many are discovering that one of the greatest of all efficiency methods is prayer power.
—Norman Vincent Peale
Topics: Prayer
The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.
—Norman Vincent Peale
Topics: Existence, Peace, Living
If you have zest and enthusiasm you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind.
—Norman Vincent Peale
Topics: Enthusiasm
When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.
—Norman Vincent Peale
Topics: Prayer, Forgiveness
Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
—Norman Vincent Peale
Topics: Poverty, Achievement, Money
Believe it is possible to solve your problem. Tremendous things happen to the believer. So believe the answer will come. It will.
—Norman Vincent Peale
Topics: Problems
Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.
—Norman Vincent Peale
Topics: Promises
When a person applies enthusiasm to his job, the job will itself become alive with exciting new possibilities.
—Norman Vincent Peale
Topics: Enthusiasm
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.
—Norman Vincent Peale
Topics: Identity
Silence fertilizes the deep place where personality grows. A life with a peaceful center can weather all storms.
—Norman Vincent Peale
Topics: Silence, Peace
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 obstacles in your imagination … Do not be awestruck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.
—Norman Vincent Peale
Topics: Believe, Success, Happy, Belief, Power, Self Confidence, Imagination, Confidence, Mind, Helpfulness, Happiness
The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
—Norman Vincent Peale
Topics: Praise, Criticism, Integrity, Adversity
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