Norman Vincent Peale Quotes, Thoughts and images

To be successful is to be helpful, caring and constructive, to make everything and everyone you touch a little bit better.

Problems are to the mind what exercise is to the muscles, they toughen and make strong.

Learn to relax. Your body is precious, as it houses your mind and spirit. Inner peace begins with a relaxed body.

Do not build up obstacles in your imagination. Difficulties must be studied and dealt with, but they must not be magnfiied by fear

Don't take tomorrow to bed with you.

Yesterday ended last night. Every day is a new beginning. Learn the skill of forgetting. And move on.

We tend to get what we expect.

How you think about a problem is more important than the problem itself. So always think positively.

Expect great things, and great things will come.

Live your life and forget your age.

A positive thinker does not refuse to recognize the negative; he refuses to dwell on it.

The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.

One of the basic laws of human existence is: find yourself, know yourself, be yourself.

The only people who don't have problems are in a cemetery.

Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.

A basic law: the more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for.

Often we have no choice about doing things, but we can always choose how to do them.

Never let any mistake cause you to stop believing in yourself. Learn from it and go on.

The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.

The tests of life are not to break you but to make you.

Nothing is more confusing than people who give good advice but set a bad example.

Promise yourself a success at the beginning of each day, and you'll be surprised how often things will turn out that way.

Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself.

Dwelling on negative thoughts is like fertilizing weeds.

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