Quotes from Norman Vincent Peale

She said that whenever she feels the old insidious chill of loneliness beginning to creep back into her life, she picks up the phone and calls someone who may be lonelier than she is.

Let the skeptics have their doubts. I prefer to believe that ideas do have wings!

The way to happiness: Keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Scatter sunshine ... Try this for a week and you will be surprised.

Afterward, I remember, General Roosevelt said to me, "Now, you see, if you think you can, or somebody who believes in you thinks you can, why, then you can!

mind can conceive and believe, and your heart desire, you can achieve.

He was a cynic and like most cynics, totally selfish and self-indulgent.

In a group when the conversation takes a trend that is upsetting, try injecting peaceful ideas into the talk.

Las actitudes son más importantes que los hechos. Ningún hecho, entre todos los que enfrentamos, por arduo o irremediable que parezca, es tan importante como nuestra actitud hacia él. Tu forma de concebir un hecho puede arruinarte antes siquiera de que hagas nada al respecto. Así, podrías permitir que un suceso te abrueme incluso antes de enfrentarlo. Por otro lado, un patrón de pensamiento seguro y optimista puede modificar o trascender ese hecho por completo.

La sensación de seguridad depende del tipo de pensamientos que suelen ocupar tu mente. Si piensas en el fracaso, te condenarás a fracasar. En cambio, si te empeñas en sentir confianza en ti y vuelves esto un hábito permanente, desarrollarás una sensación de capacidad tan firme que superarás todas las dificultades que se te presenten, por graves que sean. La sensación de seguridad produce fortaleza.

Can you help me?" "Well," I said, "perhaps I can help you help yourself.

Let the challenge of your ambitions, of your aspirations, rouse your slumbering and often unused powers into action.

The Bible is not something piously stuffy and boring but a scientific procedure for successful living.

Positive thinking looks upon weak places in people as challenging opportunities.

one of the most effective is that advocated by Frank Laubach in his excellent book, Prayer, the Mightiest Power in the World.

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

People who assume failure tend to have the failure.

It is a pity," he wrote, "that people should let themselves be defeated by the problems, cares, and difficulties of human existence, and it is quite unnecessary.

Change your thoughts and you change the world

When you change your thoughts, remember to also change your world

Always remember that to every disadvantage there is a corresponding advantage.

What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them" (Mark 11:24).

I had heard that verse many times but in a flash of insight realized that one of the keys I had missed was that hadn't trained my mind to believe, to think positively, to have faith in either God or myself.

If ye have faith … nothing shall be impossible unto you." (Matthew 17:20) He removed that one, shuffled expertly through the cards with one hand as he drove, selected another, and placed it under the clip. This one read, "If God be for us, who can be against us?" (Romans 8:31)

They are not easily irritated or annoyed. Some people seem to be able to rise above their irritations and they are fun to be with because they are poised and even-tempered. They seem to live on an upper level emotionally and are not easily riled up. They keep in a good humor and spirit.