Quotes from Norman Vincent Peale

When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor

Change your thoughts and change your world.

Your personality means the aspect of yourself which makes you effective in life. It is evident that there are two aspects of effectiveness of individuality. First, how do you affect or stimulate others? This is your stimulation value. Second, how do others affect you? How do you respond to others? That is your response aspect of value. Put these together, your effect upon others and others' effect upon you, and that is virtually your personality.

Lord: "I believe You have a plan for my life, so there must be some purpose in my getting fired. Instead of railing against my fate, I humbly ask You to show me the purpose in what has happened." Once he began to believe there had been a reason and some meaning behind what had happened to him, it was easier to rid himself of resentment against his former employers. And once that happened he was "employable" again.

Practice "seeing" yourself, not as weak, wishy-washy and vascillating, but as strong, controlled, purposeful.

Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid.

To go fast, row slowly.

Positive thinking is looking at events with the knowledge that there will be both good and bad in life, but that it is better to emphasize the good. And as you do that, good seems to increase.

Since the most creative element in our person, the superior factor in our entire entity, is the mind

Affirmative Prayers Release Powers By Which Positive Results Are Accomplished.

I don't believe in defeat'.

Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is. . . . ROMANS 12:2

Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it yourself. In giving it, you will accumulate a deposit of joy greater than you ever believed possible. ~ Norman Vincent Peale

Dr. Zachary T. Bercovitz told me: "Some people are actually draining into their bodies the diseased thoughts of their minds." Asked to specify these diseased thoughts, he replied, "Oh, the usual — fear, guilt, worry, frustration, tension, resentment, gloominess, despondency. In fact, if fear and resentment were eliminated from people's minds I believe our hospital population would be reduced by maybe fifty per cent. Certainly by a lot anyway."

Miracles are of all sizes. And if you start believing in little miracles, you can work up to the bigger ones.

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

And if the mind thinks with a believing attitude one can do amazing things.

Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun. Change your thoughts and you change your world.

Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.

Plan your work - work your plan. Lack of system produces that 'I'm swamped' feeling.

The how thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile ifs but goes right to work on the creative how.

The big question isn't whether you have problems; the all-important factor is your attitude toward problems. How you think of the problem is more important than the problem itself.

Go forward confidently, energetically attacking problems, expecting favorable outcomes.

Never allow sick attitudes to poison your thinking, nor let ill will make you ill. Avoid making your mind sore by that painful rehurting called resentment.