Norman Vincent Peale Quotes

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

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

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

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.

Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don’t have any problems, you don’t get any seeds.

Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.

Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don’t take yourself so seriously.

Be interesting, be enthusiastic… and don’t talk too much.

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Think positively about yourself…. ask God who made you to keep on remaking you.