Quotes by Norman Vincent Peale

Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.

I truly believe that if we keep telling the Christmas story, singing the Christmas songs, and living the Christmas spirit, we can bring joy and happiness and peace to this world.

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

Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented, and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful. Such attitudes are active and definite factors in creating satisfactory conditions. Watch your manner of speech then if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind.

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.

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

The way to happiness: keep your heart free from hate your mind from worry. Live simply expect little give much. Fill your life with love. Scatter sunshine. Forget self think of others. Do as you would be done by. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.

Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart develop the happiness habit and life will become a continual feast.

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

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.

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 doesnt want anyone to be hungry and oppressed. He just puts his big arms around everybody and hugs them up against himself.

The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.

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.

Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.