Norman Vincent Peale: Trending quotes (page 3)

“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.”

Norman Vincent Peale

World , Idea

“To become a happy person have a clean soul, eyes that see romance in the commonplace, a child’s heart, and spiritual simplicity.”

Norman Vincent Peale book The Power of Positive Thinking

Source: The Power of Positive Thinking

Soul , Heart , Personality , Happiness

“Faced with the election of a Catholic, our culture is at stake.”

Norman Vincent Peale

Opposing the candidacy of ‪John F. Kennedy‬‎ for US President, as quoted in "The Religious Issue: Hot and Getting Hotter" in Newsweek (19 September 1960)

“Of vast importance in achieving peace of mind is dealing with the contents of mind itself: the mass of all ill thoughts you have stored up over the years, all the regrets, all the futilities, all the hidden sins, all the hates, all the grudges, all the vindictiveness. The minds of many people are filled with pockets of poison.”

Norman Vincent Peale

Power Of The Plus Factor (1987)

Hate , People , Peace

“When obstacles or difficulties arise, the positive thinker takes them as creative opportunities. He welcomes the challenge of a tough problem and looks for ways to turn it to advantage.”

Norman Vincent Peale

Have a Great Day (1986), p. 2

Way , Problem

“The dynamic and positive attitude is a strong magnetic force which, by its very nature, attracts good results.
This, of course, does not mean you will get everything you want. When you live on a faith basis your desire will be only for that which you can ask in God's name. But whatever you should have, whatever is good for you will be granted.”

Norman Vincent Peale

Stay Alive All Your Life (1957)

God , Faith , Nature , Strong

“Believe that problems do have answers. Believe that they can be overcome. Believe that they can be handled. And finally, believe that you can solve them.”

Norman Vincent Peale

‪You Can If You Think You Can‬ (1987), p. 36

Problem

“In a large congregation, while there is a wide diversification of interest, it is also true that there are only a few basic human problems. It must also be taken into consideration that people are people regardless of who they are or what their backgrounds may be. There are certain deep universal appeals to human interest and to these human nature always responds.”

Norman Vincent Peale

Confident Living (1948), p. 5

People , Nature , Problem , Universe

“It's not necessary to be born again. You have your way to God, I have mine. I found eternal peace in a Shinto shrine … I've been to Shinto shrines and God is everywhere. … Christ is one of the ways! God is everywhere.”

Norman Vincent Peale

On a Phil Donahue Show in 1984, as quoted in The Sword of the Lord (14 December 1984)

God , Peace , Way , Christ

“Tell yourself every morning as you go to work that you love your job. Think of it as interesting, even fascinating. By so doing you will ultimately get enthusiastic about your work — and you will undoubtedly do a better job.”

Norman Vincent Peale

Power Of The Plus Factor (1987)

Love , Thinking

“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.”

Norman Vincent Peale

Power Of The Plus Factor (1987)

Life , God , Law , Universe

“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

The New Art of Living (1986), p. 13

World , Hope , Way , Problem

“If you put off everything till you're sure of it, you'll get nothing done.”

Norman Vincent Peale

As quoted in Behavior in Organizations : Understanding & Managing the Human Side of Work (1995) by Jerald Greenberg and Robert A. Baron, p. 371

“Sometimes we see people persevering in the face of what seem to be insuperable odds. When that happens, I can't help but think that through their Plus Factor information has been conveyed to them that even they are unaware of.”

Norman Vincent Peale

Power Of The Plus Factor (1987)

People , Thinking , Help

“The power of the Plus Factor is potential but it is not self-activating. It is latent in human beings and will remain latent until it is activated.”

Norman Vincent Peale

Power Of The Plus Factor (1987)

“It is inconceivable that a Roman Catholic president would not be under extreme pressure by the hierarchy of his church to accede to its policies with respect to foreign relations in matters, including representation to the Vatican.”

Norman Vincent Peale

Formal statement of the committee of 150 Protestant clergymen he represented, opposing the candidacy of ‪John F. Kennedy‬‎ for US President in September 1960, quoted in The Religious Issue: Hot and Getting Hotter in Newsweek (19 September 1960), and in ‪A Question of Character : A Life of John F. Kennedy‬ (1992) by Thomas C. Reeves, p. 191; though as a primary spokesman of the committee, he endorsed the statement, and it is likely he had major influence on its drafting, he was not cited as its author.
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