Norman Vincent Peale
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.Collection: Attitude
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.Collection: Motivational
The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.Collection: Peace
Change your thoughts and you change your world.Collection: Inspirational
It's always too early to quit.Collection: Motivational
When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.Collection: Attitude
Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.Collection: Christmas
Imagination is the true magic carpet.Collection: Imagination
One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.Collection: Experience
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.Collection: Attitude
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.Collection: Relationship
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.Collection: Fear
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.Collection: Imagination
Four things for success: work and pray, think and believe.Collection: Work
Change yourself and your work will seem different.Collection: Change
Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.Collection: Strength
Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.Collection: Happiness
The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.
Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex.
We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.
If you have zest and enthusiasm you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind.
Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.
We tend to get what we expect.
The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.
Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.
The Gateway to Christianity is not through an intricate labyrinth of dogma, but by a simple belief in the person of Christ.
Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.
You will soon break the bow if you keep it always stretched.
Be interesting, be enthusiastic... and don't talk too much.
If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.
Don't take tomorrow to bed with you.
When every physical and mental resources is focused, one's power to solve a problem multiplies tremendously.
If you put off everything till you're sure of it, you'll never get anything done.
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.
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.Collection: Inspirational
A positive thinker does not refuse to recognize the negative; he refuses to dwell on it. Positive thinking is a form of thought which habitually looks for the best results from the worst conditionsCollection: Positive Thinking
The way to happiness: Keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Scatter sunshine, forget self, think of others. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.Collection: Inspirational
Believe you can, and you can. Belief is one of the most powerful of all problem dissolvers. When you believe that a difficulty can be overcome, you are more than halfway to victory over it already.Collection: Powerful
If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.Collection: Inspirational
Dwelling on negative thoughts is like fertilizing weeds.Collection: Weed
Never forget that all the enthusiasm you need is in your mind. Let it out - let it live - let it motivate you.Collection: Mind
One of the most powerful concepts, one which is a sure cure for lack of confidence, is the thought that God is with you and helping you. This is one of the simplest teachings in religion, namely, that Almighty God will be your companion, will stand by you, help you, and see you through. No other idea is so powerful in developing self-confidence as this simple belief when practiced. To practice it simply affirm "God is with me; God is helping me; God is guiding me." Spend several minutes each day visualizing his presence. Then practice believing that affirmation.Collection: God
Every problem contains the seed of it's own solution.Collection: Business
Hold an image of the life you want, and that image will become fact.Collection: Want
The tests of life are not to break you but to make you.Collection: Life
You must feed your mind even as you feed your body, and to make your mind healthy, you must feed it nourishing, wholesome thoughts.Collection: Healthy