Norman Vincent Peale citations

“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.”

“What the mind can conceive and believe, and the heart desire, you can achieve.”

“By success, of course, I do not mean that you may become rich, famous, or powerful for that does not, of necessity, represent achievement. Indeed, not infrequently, such individuals represent pathetic failure as persons.”

“Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.”

“Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.”

“I place this day, my life, my loved ones, my work in the Lord's hands. There is no harm in the Lord's hands, only good. Whatever happens, whatever results, if I am in the Lord's hands it is the Lord's will and it is good.”

“Americans used to roar like lions for liberty; now we bleat like sheep for security.”

“Every individual forms his own estimate of himself and that basic estimate goes far toward determining what he becomes.”

“Believe and create is a basic fact of successful living.”

“Who is God? Some theological being? He is so much greater than theology. God is vitality. God is life. God is energy. As you breathe God in, as you visualize His energy, you will be reenergized!”

“Change your thoughts and you can change the world.”

“The trouble with most of us is that we'd rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.”

“It's always to soon to quit!”

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

“Empty pockets never held anyone back…it's only empty heads and empty hearts that do it.”

“Plant seeds of expectation in your mind; cultivate thoughts that anticipate achievement. Believe in yourself as being capable of overcoming all obstacles and weaknesses.”

“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.”

“Just a moment ago nature put on one of its most spectacular demonstrations.”

“Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there.”

“Believe it is possible to solve your problem. Tremendous things happen to the believer. So believe the answer will come. It will.”

“Stand up to an obstacle. Just stand up to it, that's all, and don't give way under it, and it will finally break. You will break it. Something has to break, and it won't be you, it will be the obstacle.”

“Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You'll find they haven't half the strength you think they have.”

“If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.”

“I truly believe that if we keep telling the Christmas story, singing the Christmas songs, and living the Christmas spirit, we can bring joy and happiness and peace to this world.”

“Let nothing trouble you let nothing worry you everything passes away expect God God alone is sufficient”

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

“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.”

“Enthusiasm spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.”

“Optimism, when applied to your life, develops strength and peace within you.”