Norman Vincent Peale Quotes, Thoughts and images
If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.
Dwelling on negative thoughts is like fertilizing weeds.
Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself.
Promise yourself a success at the beginning of each day, and you'll be surprised how often things will turn out that way.
Nothing is more confusing than people who give good advice but set a bad example.
The tests of life are not to break you but to make you.
The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
Never let any mistake cause you to stop believing in yourself. Learn from it and go on.
Often we have no choice about doing things, but we can always choose how to do them.
A basic law: the more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for.
Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
The only people who don't have problems are in a cemetery.
One of the basic laws of human existence is: find yourself, know yourself, be yourself.
The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
A positive thinker does not refuse to recognize the negative; he refuses to dwell on it.
Live your life and forget your age.
Expect great things, and great things will come.
How you think about a problem is more important than the problem itself. So always think positively.
We tend to get what we expect.
Yesterday ended last night. Every day is a new beginning. Learn the skill of forgetting. And move on.
Don't take tomorrow to bed with you.
Do not build up obstacles in your imagination. Difficulties must be studied and dealt with, but they must not be magnfiied by fear
Learn to relax. Your body is precious, as it houses your mind and spirit. Inner peace begins with a relaxed body.
Problems are to the mind what exercise is to the muscles, they toughen and make strong.
To be successful is to be helpful, caring and constructive, to make everything and everyone you touch a little bit better.