Norman Vincent Peale Quotes

Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them.

Good intentions are no substitute for obedience.

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.

Every problem contains the seed of it's own solution.

One person can make a difference. You don't have to be a big shot. You don't have to have a lot of influence. You just have to have faith in your power to change things.

The Bible tells us that the sins of the fathers are passed to succeeding generations. The virtues of the fathers can be passed along, too.

Develop a tremendous faith in God and that will give you a humble yet soundly realistic faith in yourself.

There is only one group of people who do not have problems, and they are all dead. Problems are a sign of life, so the more problems you have, the more alive you are.

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.

The Plus Factor makes its appearance in a person's life in proportion as that person is in harmony with God and His universal laws.

The controlled person is a powerful person. He who always keeps his head will get ahead.

Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do.

When you get up in the morning, you have two choices - either to be happy or to be unhappy. Just choose to be happy

We may live victoriously, not because we have any power within ourselves, but because when we give ourselves to God, He gives himself to us.

Cherish your family connections. They are one of God's greatest ways of demonstrating his love and fellowship.

The really happy people are those who have broken the chains of procrastination, those who find satisfaction in doing the job at hand. They're full of eagerness, zest, productivity. You can be, too.

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

Jesus made it clear that the most important thing in the world is our relationship to God and to others. When we achieve that, everything good will follow.

When I dig another out of trouble, the hole from which I lift him is the place where I bury my own.

God is with me, helping me.

There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.

Nothing during the year is so impressively convincing as the vision Christmas brings of what this world would be if love became the daily practice of human beings.

Life is not all fun and easy going. Far from it; there are many rough times. But, sadly, we too often let the hard times dull our enthusiasm. And that is dangerous, if not fatal, to our lives.

You will soon break the bow if you keep it always stretched.

Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.

Life's blows cannot break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm.

Masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

The Gateway to Christianity is not through an intricate labyrinth of dogma, but by a simple belief in the person of Christ.

Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.

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.

In adversity keep motivated, for often the best comes from difficulty.

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.

When you discover the wonder of giving, you will wonder how you could have lived so long in any other way.

If you worry, you are a worrier because your mind is saturated with worry thoughts. To counteract these, mark every passage in your Bible that speaks of faith, hope, and courage.

Realize that there are not hopeless situations; there are only people who take hopeless attitudes.

Never use the word “impossible” seriously again. Toss it into the verbal wastebucket.

Who decides whether you shall be happy or unhappy? You do!

The first step is to fill your life with positive faith that will help you through anything. The second step is to start where you are.

You do not need to let anything get you down, but if you are down you certainly need not let anything keep you down.

You can do amazing things if you have strong faith, deep desire, and just hang in there.

Old unhealthy thoughts can block off inspiration and motivation. Dropping them releases a strong flow of power through the mind.

Before you go to sleep, run over your personal world mentally and thank God for everyone and everything.

If you visualize a failure, you tend to create the conditions that produce failure. Visualize-believe-and thank God in advance.

The one person who most blocks you from a full, happy, and successful life is you.

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.

Believe in yourself, believe in your future.

Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.

You don't have to be tired and bored. Get interested in something. Get absolutely enthralled in something. Throw yourself into it with abandon.

Nothing of great value in this life comes easily.

Check what you did right and don't get lost in basking on your glory. It will make it easier to repeat whatever you did that created the success.