Quotes from Norman Vincent Peale

I found eternal peace in a Shinto shrine. I've been to Shinto shrines and God is everywhere. Christ is one of the ways! God is everywhere.

No matter how dark things become, someone is always with you - and that someone is God. He helps by giving you peace and a positive mental attitude.

Optimism is a philosophy based on the belief that basically life is good, that, in the long run, the good in life overbalances the evil.

Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there.

The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results.

If you have zest and enthusiasm you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind.

Take a new look at your present "impossible." Consider positive ways to handle it.

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.

Have great hopes and dare to go all out for them. Have great dreams and dare to live them. Have tremendous expectations and believe in them.

Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate.

Your enthusiasm will be infectious, stimulating and attractive to others. They will love you for it They will go for you and with you

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure.

Begin where you are. Don't wait for someone else to change things for you. Do it yourself

Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.

Believe in yourself, believe in your future.

Realize that there are not hopeless situations; there are only people who take hopeless attitudes.

Negative thinking definitely attracts negative results.

When you wholeheartedly adopt a 'with all your heart' attitude and go all out with the positive principle, you can do incredible things.

What seems impossible one minute becomes, through faith, possible the next.

Take charge of your mind and begin to fill it with healthy, positive, and courageous thoughts.

Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.

If you think in positive terms, you will achieve positive results.

No one can ever overcome anything until his thoughts are creative and positive.