Norman Vincent Peale Quotes

“A peaceful mind generates power.”

“Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.”

“Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture... Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.”

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

“One never does wrong by doing right.”

“Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate.”

“Self-knowledge is the beginning of self-correction.”

“Stand up to an obstacle. Just stand up to it, that's all, and don't give way under it, and it will finally break. You will break it. Something has to break, and it won't be you, it will be the obstacle.”

“The trouble with most of us is that we'd rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.”

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

“To become a happy person have a clean soul, eyes that see romance in the commonplace, a child’s heart, and spiritual simplicity.”

“We are beginning to comprehend a basic truth hitherto neglected, that our physical condition is determined very largely by our emotional condition, and our emotional life is profoundly regulated by our thought life.”

“When you expect the best, you release a magnetic force in your mind which by a law of attraction tends to bring the best to you.”