Quotes from Norman Vincent Peale

The controlled person is a powerful person. He who always keeps his head will get ahead.

The purpose of writing inspirational notes is simply to build others up because there are too many people in the demolition business.

Don't duck the most difficult problems. That just ensures that the hardest part will be left when you are most tired. Get the big one done - it's downhill from then on.

When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.

You must conceive it in your heart and mind before you can receive it. If you believe then all things are possible.

Resentment or grudges do no harm to the person against whom you hold these feelings but every day and every night of your life, they are eating at you.

You become a worrier by practicing worry. You become free of worry by practicing the opposite…

If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed … nothing shall be impossible unto you.

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

How you think about a problem is more important than the problem itself – so always think positively. Believe it is possible to solve your problem. Tremendous things happen to the believer. So believe the answer will come. It will.

Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.

The secret of life is not in what happens to you. It is in what you do with it that happens to you.

Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented, and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful. Such attitudes are active and definite factors in creating satisfactory conditions. Watch your manner of speech then if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind.

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.

We build up the feeling of insecurity or security by how we think. If in our thoughts we constantly fix attention upon sinister expectations of dire events that might happen, the result will be constantly to feel insecure. And what is even more serious is the tendency to create, by the power of thought, the very condition we fear.

hard work, positive thinking, fair dealing, right treatment of people, and the proper kind of praying always get results. This

The world in which you live is not primarily determined by outward conditions and circumstances but by the thoughts that habitually occupy your mind.

Self-knowledge is the beginning of self-correction.

Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus." (Philippians 3:13-14)

Any occupation, any job has excitement in it if you have some excitement in you.

One never does wrong by doing right.

What you can image, you will be, in the long run.

Try, really try. Think, really think. Believe, really believe.