Best 391 quotes of Norman Vincent Peale on MyQuotes

Fill the day with enthusiasm. Give the day all you've got and it will give you all it's got, which will be plenty.

First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, I believe.

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.

Forget yourself! Think courage.

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.

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

Get the heat and emotion out worry, and put cold, ruthless scrutiny onto the problem, and worry loses its power. When we are worried and filled with apprehension, we become panicky and are likely to see only gloom and failure. There isn't any situation so bad that it won't become a lot better when you think rationally - and spiritually - about it. God gives you the ability to think rationally about things by filling you with peace and faith.

Getting along with the gang in one place is not any harder than getting along in another. It depends about 98 percent on your own behavior.

Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.

Go at life with abandon; give it all you've got. And life will give all it has to you.

God answers prayer in three ways: yes, no, and wait awhile.

God in His answers to prayer often says "Yes." Sometimes He says "Wait." Often He says "No." In any case, His will is done, and true faith is to believe that what happened has happened for the best. If one does not take that attitude, he is setting his personal desire against the wisdom of God. Oftentimes we confuse with faith merely that which we desire.

God loves you. God doesn't want anyone to be hungry and oppressed. He just puts his big arms around everybody and hugs them up against himself.

God never made anyone else exactly like you, and he never will again. Thank him for yourself and then for all the rest of his glorious handiwork.

Go forward confidently, energetically attacking problems, expecting favorable outcomes.

Good will cannot flow toward you unless it flows from you.

Go to inspirational meetings, get to know men and women who are doing inspiring things. Above all, run as hard as you can from the cynics and gripers and the negativists. They are not going anywhere. You are.

Great issues develop from small beginnings.

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.

Happiness will never come if it's a goal in itself; happiness is a by-product of a commitment of worthy causes.

Have absolutely no sense of guilt about being happy and successful if you operate honestly and with a sense of social responsibility.

Having asked God for forgiveness, accept release, then truly forgive yourself and turn your back definitely on the matter.

Help other people to cope with their problems, and your own will be easier to cope with.

Hold the thought of all elements of the body working together in perfect rhythm.

Hope is wanting something so eagerly that-in spite of all the evidence that you're not going to get it-you go right on wanting it.

How you think about a problem is more important than the problem itself. So always think positively.

Humans will never be hampered as smooth bag. They just dragged and dropped upon his head and empty heart

I believe absolutely and certainly that, when you die, you will meet your loved ones and know them and be reunited with them, never to be seperated again.

I believe in the power of Jesus Christ to resolve any difficulty, to remove any weakness, to heal any disease.

I believe there are two sides to the phenomenon known as death, this side where we live, and the other side where we shall continue to live. Eternity does not start ith death. We are in eternity now.

I change my thoughts, I change my world.

I firmly believe that when you die you will enter immediately into another life. They who have gone before us are alive in one form of life and we in another.

If I wanted to become a tramp, I would seek information and advice from the most successful tramp I could find. If I wanted to become a failure, I would seek advice from people who have never succeeded. If I wanted to succeed in all things, I would look around me for those who are succeeding, and do as they have done.

If Jesus were alive today, he'd probably be at the Super Bowl.

I found eternal peace in a Shinto shrine. I've been to Shinto shrines and God is everywhere. Christ is one of the ways! God is everywhere.

If you can only believe! If you will only believe! Then nothing, nothing, will be impossible for you! That is the truth and the Gospel, and it is wonderful. It's the good news.

If you expect the best, you will be the best. Learn to use one of the most powerful laws in this world; change your mental habits to belief instead of disbelief. Learn to expect, not to doubt. In so doing, you bring everything into the realm of possibility.

If you feel afraid, you can make yourself courageous by acting courageous. If you are feeling unhappy, by deliberately acting happy you can induce happy feeling. If you are lacking in enthusiasm, by simply acting enthusiastic you can make yourself enthusiastic.

If you have zest and enthusiasm you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind.

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

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

If you think in positive terms, you will achieve positive results.

If you think lack you tend to create a condition of lack. Shift your thought pattern to one of abundance and believe that God is now in the process of giving you the abundance you need.

If you've been full of error and defeat, be done with it. Say, "By God's grace, I'm done with it," and take charge of yourself like never before.

If you visualize a failure, you tend to create the conditions that produce failure. Visualize-believe-and thank God in advance.

If you want a quality, act as if you already have it. If you want to be courageous, act as if you were - and as you act and persevere in acting, so you tend to become.

If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.

If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up.

If you worry, you are a worrier because your mind is saturated with worry thoughts. To counteract these, mark every passage in your Bible that speaks of faith, hope, and courage.

Imagination is the true magic carpet.