Norman Vincent Peale quotes

Fill the day with enthusiasm. Give the day all you’ve got and it will give you all it’s got, which will be plenty.
- Norman Vincent Peale

A masterful retreat is itself a victory.
- Norman Vincent Peale

Be interesting, be enthusiastic and don't talk too much.
- Norman Vincent Peale

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

What the mind can conceive and believe, and the heart desire, you can achieve.
- Norman Vincent Peale

Let a series of happy thoughts run through your mind. They will show on your face.
- Norman Vincent Peale

The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results.
- Norman Vincent Peale

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.
- Norman Vincent Peale

Every achievement in this world was first projected as a creative idea. First the idea, then the faith in it, then the means of implementing the idea. That is the way success proceeds.
- Norman Vincent Peale

Can you go a whole day with joy in your heart? Joy and vitality are an inseparable combination. Joy is not concerned with having fun; it is an inner spiritual quality that overcomes despair, pain and defeat. You cannot turn on joy like an electric light, but you can prepare yourself to receive it.
- Norman Vincent Peale

The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
- Norman Vincent Peale

Begin where you are. Don’t wait for someone else to change things for you. Do it yourself.
- Norman Vincent Peale

Dwelling on negative thoughts is like fertilizing weeds.
- Norman Vincent Peale

If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself
- Norman Vincent Peale

We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.
- Norman Vincent Peale

If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.
- Norman Vincent Peale

Fear is never a reason for quitting; it is only an excuse.
- Norman Vincent Peale

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure.
- Norman Vincent Peale

Don’t take tomorrow to bed with you.
- Norman Vincent Peale

Never react emotionally to what happens but always look for and find in every circumstance the good that's surely present there.
- Norman Vincent Peale

The most vital, creative, and positive thoughts are those stated in the Bible. Its words are alive and form powerful thought processes.
- Norman Vincent Peale

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

If you put off everything till you’re sure of it, you’ll get nothing done.
- Norman Vincent Peale

Resentment or grudges do no harm to the person against whom you hold these feelings but every day and every night of your life, they are eating at you.
- Norman Vincent Peale

The cyclone derives its power from a calm center. So does a person.
- Norman Vincent Peale