Quotes by Norman Vincent Peale

“We tend to get what we expect.”

“Live your life and forget your age.”

“Resentment or grudges do no harm to the person against whom you hold these feelings but every day and every night of your life, they are eating at you”

“The how thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile ifs.”

“Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they havent half the strength you think they have.”

“Four things for success: Work and pray, think and believe.”

“Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself 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.”

“Imagination is the true magic carpet.”

“One of the greatest moments in anybodys developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is”

“Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex.”

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

“If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.”

“Problems are to the mind what exercise is to the muscles, they toughen and make strong”

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

“It is a fact that you project what you are.”

“It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.”

“Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.”

“If youre in a bad situation, dont worry itll change. If youre in a good situation, dont worry itll change.”

“There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles.”

“Those who are fired with an enthusiastic idea and who allow it to take hold and dominate their thoughts find that new worlds open for them. As long as enthusiasm holds out, so will new opportunities.”