Norman Vincent Peale Quotes
Quotebunny has 28 quotations by Norman Vincent Peale.
“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.”
“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.”
“Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.”
“Change your thoughts and you change your world.”
“Change yourself and your work will seem different.”
“Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.”
“Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.”
“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.”
“Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.”
“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.”
“Imagination is the true magic carpet.”
“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.”
“Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.”
“Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.”
“Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex.”
“The Gateway to Christianity is not through an intricate labyrinth of dogma, but by a simple belief in the person of Christ.”
“The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.”
“The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.”
Norman Vincent Peale Bio:
Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (May 31, 1898 – December 24, 1993) was a Protestant preacher and author (most notably of The Power of Positive Thinking) and a progenitor of the theory of "positive thinking".
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