Top 100 Peale Quotes
#1. Norman Vincent Peale "A peaceful mind generates power." from his book The Powers of Positive Thinking.
Norman Vincent Peale
#2. I built my church on Easter services, Christmas Eve services, and Norman Vincent Peale.
Robert H. Schuller
#3. I started life washing cars in Canada before moving on to selling life insurance and vacuum cleaners. Later, I went through a programme by Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, which literally changed my life. It was the turning point.
Shiv Khera
#4. Strauss, Neil: "'The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.' - Norman Vincent Peale
Timothy Ferriss
#5. Speaking as a Christian, I find the Apostle Paul appealing and the apostle Peale appalling.
Adlai E. Stevenson II
#6. Peale was a lover of birds, and yet did not hesitate to kill them in large numbers for no better reason than that it interested him to do so.
Bill Bryson
#7. If you are not getting as much from life as you want to, then examine the state of your enthusiasm.
Norman Vincent Peale
#8. Though one may acquire much in wealth, fame, or honor, the real joy of life does not lie there but, rather, in keeping the romance of living going. Nothing gives such complete and profound happiness as the perpetually fresh wonder and mystery of exciting life.
Norman Vincent Peale
#9. 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
#11. What the mind can conceive and believe, and the heart desire, you can achieve.
Norman Vincent Peale
#12. No matter how dark things become, someone is always with you - and that someone is God. He helps by giving you peace and a positive mental attitude.
Norman Vincent Peale
#13. When you expect the best, you release a magnetic force in your mind which by a law of attraction tends to bring the best to you.
Norman Vincent Peale
#14. I place this day, my life, my loved ones, my work in the Lord's hands. There is no harm in the Lord's hands, only good. Whatever happens, whatever results, if I am in the Lord's hands it is the Lord's will and it is good.
Norman Vincent Peale
#15. Our problem is to become acquainted with our own selves, letting our personalities loose upon the world for the sheer adventure of their full development and in the positive hope that they may in their own way lift the level of humanity.
Norman Vincent Peale
#16. She said that whenever she feels the old insidious chill of loneliness beginning to creep back into her life, she picks up the phone and calls someone who may be lonelier than she is.
Norman Vincent Peale
#17. 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
#18. Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.
Norman Vincent Peale
#19. Optimism, when applied to your life, develops strength and peace within you.
Norman Vincent Peale
#20. America has become so tense and nervous it has been years since I have seen anyone sleep in church - and that is a sad situation.
Norman Vincent Peale
#21. 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
#24. One of the simplest things about all facts of life is that to get where you want to go, you must keep on keeping on.
Norman Vincent Peale
#25. 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.
Norman Vincent Peale
#26. Remember that "Help us grow this grass" is a far more effective sign than "Keep off the grass".
Norman Vincent Peale
#28. To have a mind full of peace, merely fill it full of peace. It's as simple as that.
Norman Vincent Peale
#29. Infantile people complain and say that God is cruel or that there is no God. Mature people, however, know that there is wisdom and sometimes an eternal kindness in God's refusals.
Norman Vincent Peale
#30. 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."
Norman Vincent Peale
#31. Make a mental list of happy thoughts and pass them through your mind several times every day.
Norman Vincent Peale
#32. The individual who knows the score about life sees difficulties as opportunities
Norman Vincent Peale
#33. There are no circumstances in your life where God will not stand will not stand with you and help you, no matter what the trouble may be.
Norman Vincent Peale
#34. When the old fears, hates, and worries that have haunted you for so long try to edge back in, they will in effect find a sign on the door of your mind reading occupied.
Norman Vincent Peale
#35. When all hope seems lost and your life's in disarray, just call on your Angel, who will light your way!
Raphaelle Peale
#38. If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed ... nothing shall be impossible unto you.
Norman Vincent Peale
#39. If you face life with the sincere faith that through the aid of the Almighty you can overcome your troubles, then you will keep defeat at arm's length. And this applies in all the circumstances life can bring.
Norman Vincent Peale
#40. People fail to understand that unless they are themselves willing to give, they will never receive.
Norman Vincent Peale
#41. We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.
Norman Vincent Peale
#42. A war fitness conference some time ago declared that the highest form of recreation is to go to church. The word recreation should be written re-creation. More real rest can be gained from an hour and a quarter of worship under these circumstances than by eighteen holes of golf.
Norman Vincent Peale
#43. If you have zest and enthusiasm you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind.
Norman Vincent Peale
#44. The greatest secret for eliminating the inferiority complex, which is another term for deep and profound self-doubt, is to fill your mind to overflowing with faith. Develop a tremendous faith in God and that will give you a humble yet soundly realistic faith in yourself.
Norman Vincent Peale
#45. Help other people to cope with their problems, and your own will be easier to cope with.
Norman Vincent Peale
#46. If you put off everything till you're sure of it, you'll never get anything done.
Norman Vincent Peale
#48. The antidote to frustration is a calm faith, not in your own cleverness, or in hard toil, but in God's guidance.
Norman Vincent Peale
#50. Go forward confidently, energetically attacking problems, expecting favorable outcomes.
Norman Vincent Peale
#52. I had heard that verse many times but in a flash of insight realized that one of the keys I had missed was that hadn't trained my mind to believe, to think positively, to have faith in either God or myself.
Norman Vincent Peale
#53. Thoughts and words form your mental image. And since we become what we picture be sure your thoughts and words express prosperity and blessing rather than poverty and defeat.
Norman Vincent Peale
#55. You can do amazing things if you have strong faith, deep desire, and just hang in there.
Norman Vincent Peale
#56. You don't have to be tired and bored. Get interested in something. Get absolutely enthralled in something. Throw yourself into it with abandon.
Norman Vincent Peale
#58. Positive Thinkers get positive results because they appreciate the inestimable value of a day, this day, not the next day, but this day, and every day. Today offers at least sixteen waking hours that may be crammed FULL of opportunity, joy, excitement, and achievement.
Norman Vincent Peale
#60. Stand up to an obstacle. Just stand up to it, that's all, and don't give way under it, and it will finally break. You will break it. Something has to break, and it won't be you, it will be the obstacle.
Norman Vincent Peale
#61. It is a fact that negative thought will attract negative thought, and positive thought will attract positive thought.
Norman Vincent Peale
#62. Learn from both your mistakes and successes because if you learn only from your mistakes you will only learn more errors
Norman Vincent Peale
#63. The capacity to be either happy or unhappy is determined by the manner in which you react to whatever happens.
Norman Vincent Peale
#64. We are beginning to comprehend a basic truth hitherto neglected, that our physical condition is determined very largely by our emotional condition, and our emotional life is profoundly regulated by our thought life.
Norman Vincent Peale
#65. Never use the word "impossible" seriously again. Toss it into the verbal wastebucket.
Norman Vincent Peale
#66. 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.
Norman Vincent Peale
#68. Often we have no choice about doing things, but we can always choose how to do them.
Norman Vincent Peale
#70. Whenever a negative thought concerning your personal power comes to mind, deliberately voice a positive thought to cancel it out.
Norman Vincent Peale
#71. 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.
Norman Vincent Peale
#72. Make sure you pay attention to what's right with your life, not just what's wrong.
Norman Vincent Peale
#73. The how thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile ifs but goes right to work on the creative how.
Norman Vincent Peale
#74. 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
#75. Frequently remind yourself that God is with you, that He will never fail you, that you can count upon him. Say these words, "God is with me, helping me."
Norman Vincent Peale
#76. Every night empty your mind of unhappy thoughts as you empty your pockets and come alive.
Norman Vincent Peale
#77. Knock the T off the word can't. You can do anything - ANYTHING - if you think you can!
Norman Vincent Peale
#78. Any occupation, any job has excitement in it if you have some excitement in you.
Norman Vincent Peale
#80. 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.
Norman Vincent Peale
#81. 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
#82. The sure way to success is so simple, but it requires character, guts, persistence, the mastery of lower jobs to be ready for the better ones.
Norman Vincent Peale
#83. Life is a blend of laughter and tears, a combination of rain and sunshine.
Norman Vincent Peale
#86. 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.
Norman Vincent Peale
#87. Religious faith may very well be considered a science, for it responds invariably to certain formulae. Perform the technique of faith according to the laws which have been proved workable in human experience and you will always get a result of power.
Norman Vincent Peale
#88. In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it.
Norman Vincent Peale
#89. I believe in the power of Jesus Christ to resolve any difficulty, to remove any weakness, to heal any disease.
Norman Vincent Peale
#91. 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.
Norman Vincent Peale
#92. The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
Norman Vincent Peale
#93. What seems impossible one minute becomes, through faith, possible the next.
Norman Vincent Peale
#95. One of the greatest of all principles is that men can do what they think they can do.
Norman Vincent Peale
#99. You can make yourself enthusiastic by affirming enthusiasm and by thinking, talking, acting enthusiastic.
Norman Vincent Peale
#100. Eliminate the word "impossible" from your conversation, drop it from your thoughts, erase it from your attitudes. Stop rationalizing it. Cease excusing it. Substitute for it that bright and shining word ... POSSIBLE."
Norman Vincent Peale
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