Quotes by "Norman Vincent Peale"

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.

Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

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

People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.

Change your thoughts and you change your world.

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

Today any successful and competent businessman will employ the latest and best-tested methods in production, distribution, and administration, and many are discovering that one of the greatest of all efficiency methods is prayer power.

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

God loves you. God doesn't want anyone to be hungry and oppressed. He just puts his big arms around everybody and hugs them up against himself.

When Ty Cobb got on first base he had an apparently nervous habit of kicking the bag. ... By kicking the bag hard enough Cobb could move it a full two inches closer to second base. He figured that this improved his chances for a steal, or for reaching second base safely on a hit.

Great issues develop from small beginnings.

Be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind. Talk health, happiness, and prosperity to every person you meet. Make all your friends feel there is something special in them. Look at the sunny side of everything. Think only the best, be as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own. Forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future. Give everyone a smile. Spend so much time improving yourself that you have no time left to criticize others. Be too big for worry and too noble for anger.

What the mind can conceive and believe, and the heart desire, you can achieve.

When you get up in the morning, you have two choices - either to be happy or to be unhappy. Just choose to be happy

People who belittle people, will be LITTLE people, and will accomplish very Little

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.

Believe it is possible to solve your problem. Tremendous things happen to the believer. So believe the answer will come. It will.

Imagination is the true magic carpet.

There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.

One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.