Norman Vincent Peale's Quotes

It's always too early to quit.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

We tend to get what we expect.

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

Be interesting, be enthusiastic... and don't talk too much.

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.

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

Don't take tomorrow to bed with you.

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

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

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

If you put off everything till you're sure of it, you'll never get anything done.

What we've got here is a failure to communicate.