Norman Vincent Peale Quotes
As you go through life, do not practice subtraction; instead, add up your blessings, opportunities, and possibilities. In so doing you will be relaxed, outgoing, and successful.
Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do.
Help other people cope with their problems, and our own will be easier to cope with.
If you want a quality, act as if you already have it. If you want to be courageous, act as if you were — and as you act and persevere in acting, so you tend to become.
If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up.
It’s always too soon to quit!
Look around and you’ll agree that 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, and productivity. You can be too.
People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
Quotes by Norman Vincent Peale
Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit.
Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven’t half the strength you think they have.
Talk, actually speak, to the health forces within yourself. Standing straight and tall say, ‘I affirm the presence within me of creative forces; I hereby yield myself in confidence to their health-giving effect.’
The future belongs always to the believers, who are for something, never for those who are only against something.
The individual who know the score about life sees difficulties as opportunities.
There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
There is a three point program to doing anything with yourself. Find yourself. Motivate yourself. Commit yourself. Those three things, if tried, will produce results.
There is one way to avoid criticism: never do anything, never amount to anything. Never get your head above the crowd so the jealous will notice and attack you. Criticism is a sign that your personality has some force.
There is only one person you should ever compete with and that’s yourself. Keep aiming to surpass your own best performance and be ever hitting higher levels.
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We do not live in a competitive world, we live in a creative world. For me to be competitive against someone else instead of striving to improve myself would suggest that there is lack and limitation. And that just isn’t the case. – Kevin H.
Those who are fired with an enthusiastic idea and who allow it to take hold and dominate their thoughts find that new worlds open for them. As long as enthusiasm holds out, so will new opportunities.
Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow.
To be more than you are, to do more than you are doing, to achieve higher standards and greater results are definitely inherent in each of us.
You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.