Norman Vincent Peale Quotes

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
Norman Vincent Peale

Motivational, Faith, Happy

Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale

Inspirational, Change, Thoughts

Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.
Norman Vincent Peale

Christmas, Beautiful, Magic

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.
Norman Vincent Peale

Great, Fear, Successful

It's always too early to quit.
Norman Vincent Peale

Motivational, Early, Quit

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

Anyone, Empty, Hearts

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

Happy, Successful, Mind

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.
Norman Vincent Peale

Failure, Success, Attitude

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

Rather, Trouble, Criticism

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

Strength, Find, Stand

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

Success, Work, Four

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

Learning, Time, Yourself

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

Happy, Yourself, Mind

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

Problem, Problems, Solution

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

Yourself, Idea, Seriously

We tend to get what we expect.
Norman Vincent Peale

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.
Norman Vincent Peale

Yourself, Mind, Picture

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

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

Life, Happiness, Fighting

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

Yourself, Energy, Lose

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

Attitude, Him, Personal

Don't take tomorrow to bed with you.
Norman Vincent Peale

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

Simple, Person, Through

Change yourself and your work will seem different.
Norman Vincent Peale

Change, Work, Yourself

Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex.
Norman Vincent Peale

Thought, Enough, Same

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Clergyman

Born: May 31, 1898

Died: December 24, 1993

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