Change yourself and your work will seem different.
—Norman Vincent Peale
Topics: Change, One liners
Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.
—Norman Vincent Peale
Topics: Promises
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
—Norman Vincent Peale
Topics: Positive Attitudes, Thinking, Optimism, Change
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
The one person who most blocks you from a full, happy, and successful life is you. He is therefore wise who makes himself an asset. We can be our won worst enemy or best friend. We can be a source of trouble or a cure for trouble. So if you feel empty, as many do, start by getting free from yourself as a first stop to vibrant living.
—Norman Vincent Peale
Topics: Being True to Yourself
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
Happiness will never come if it’s a goal in itself; happiness is a by-product of a commitment of worthy causes.
—Norman Vincent Peale
Topics: Happiness
The first step is to fill your life with a positive faith that will help you through anything. The second is to begin where you are.
—Norman Vincent Peale
Topics: Faith
Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.
—Norman Vincent Peale
Topics: Adversity
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
Topics: One Step at a Time
When a person applies enthusiasm to his job, the job will itself become alive with exciting new possibilities.
—Norman Vincent Peale
Topics: Enthusiasm
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
Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.
—Norman Vincent Peale
Topics: Optimism, People, Health, Praise, Positive Attitudes, Love
Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex.
—Norman Vincent Peale
Never say anything to hurt anyone. Moreover … refrain from double talk, from shrewd and canny remarks that are designed to advance our interests at someone’s disadvantage. We are to turn our back upon evil, and in every way possible, do good, help people and bring blessings into their lives.
—Norman Vincent Peale
Topics: Goodness
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
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
There is a basic law that like attracts like. Negative thinking definitely attracts negative results. Conversely, if a person habitually thinks optimistically and hopefully, his positive thinking sets in motion creative forces—and success instead of eluding him flows toward him.
—Norman Vincent Peale
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
If you are not getting as much from life as you want to, then examine the state of your enthusiasm.
—Norman Vincent Peale
Topics: Enthusiasm
Christmas is the season of joy, of holiday greetings exchanged, of gift-giving, and of families united.
—Norman Vincent Peale
Topics: Christmas
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
Topics: Adversity, Victory, Acceptance, Happiness
Believe you are defeated, believe it long enough, and it is likely to become a fact.
—Norman Vincent Peale
Topics: Defeat
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
Silence fertilizes the deep place where personality grows. A life with a peaceful center can weather all storms.
—Norman Vincent Peale
Topics: Silence, Peace
No nation became great by becoming rich. Neither does a man find enduring satisfaction in life by owning something—only by becoming something.
—Norman Vincent Peale
Topics: Satisfaction
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: Enthusiasm, Attitude, Belief, Business, Adversity
When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.
—Norman Vincent Peale
Topics: Forgiveness, Prayer
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
Don’t write off the importance of hard work, the guts to keep at it, a definite goal, and the ability to have fun in the process. If there’s no fun in it, something’s wrong with all you’re doing.
—Norman Vincent Peale
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