Norman Vincent Peale Quotes

Great issues develop from small beginnings.
Norman Vincent Peale
When Ty Cobb got on first base he had an apparently nervous habit of kicking the bag. ... By kicking the bag hard enough Cobb could move it a full two inches closer to second base. He figured that this improved his chances for a steal or for reaching second base safely on a hit.
Norman Vincent Peale
The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale
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.
Norman Vincent Peale
When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.
Norman Vincent Peale
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
Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.
Norman Vincent Peale
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale
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
When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.
Norman Vincent Peale
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
Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.
Norman Vincent Peale
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale
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
Joy increases as you give it and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself. In giving it you will accumulate a deposit of joy greater than you ever believed possible.
Norman Vincent Peale
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
The way to happiness: keep your heart free from hate your mind from worry. Live simply expect little give much. Fill your life with love. Scatter sunshine. Forget self think of others. Do as you would be done by. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.
Norman Vincent Peale
When you wholeheartedly adopt a "with all your heart" attitude and go all out with the positive principle you can do incredible things.
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
When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.
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
Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented, and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful. Such attitudes are active and definite factors in creating satisfactory conditions. Watch your manner of speech then if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind.
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
I truly believe that if we keep telling the Christmas story, singing the Christmas songs, and living the Christmas spirit, we can bring joy and happiness and peace to this world.
Norman Vincent Peale
Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.
Norman Vincent Peale
This is a dynamic and mysterious universe and human life is, no doubt, conditioned by imponderables of which we are only dimly aware. People sometimes say, "the strangest coincidence happened." Coincidences may seem strange, but they are never a result of caprice. They are orderly laws in the spiritual life of man. They affect and influence our lives profoundly. These so-called imponderables are so important that you should become spiritually sensitized to them. Indeed, the more spiritually minded you become the more acute your contact will be with these behind-the-scenes forces. By being alive to them through insight, instruction, and illumination, you can make your way past errors and mistakes on which, were you less spiritually sensitive, you might often stumble.
Norman Vincent Peale
It's always to soon to quit!
Norman Vincent Peale
Let us move into the New Year with a great sense of the thrill of living.
Norman Vincent Peale
Throw your heart over the bar and your body will follow.
Norman Vincent Peale
The trouble with most of us is that we'd rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale
People who make no mistakes lack boldness and the spirit of adventure. They are the brakes on the wheels of progress.
Norman Vincent Peale
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
If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth.
Norman Vincent Peale
The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism
Norman Vincent Peale
:You Can overcome any obstacle. You can achieve the most tremendous things by faith power.
Norman Vincent Peale
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale
When you affirm big, believe big and pray big, putting faith into action, big things happen.
Norman Vincent Peale
Imagination is the true magic carpet.
Norman Vincent Peale
Don't duck the most difficult problems. That just ensures that the hardest part will be left when you are most tired. Get the big one done - it's downhill from then on.
Norman Vincent Peale
People who belittle people, will be LITTLE people, and will accomplish very Little
Norman Vincent Peale
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
When you get up in the morning, you have two choices - either to be happy or to be unhappy. Just choose to be happy
Norman Vincent Peale
What the mind can conceive and believe, and the heart desire, you can achieve.
Norman Vincent Peale
Be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind. Talk health, happiness, and prosperity to every person you meet. Make all your friends feel there is something special in them. Look at the sunny side of everything. Think only the best, be as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own.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.
Norman Vincent Peale
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.
Norman Vincent Peale