Norman Vincent Peale Positive Quotations

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

We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.

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.

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.

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

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.

Whenever a negative thought concerning your personal power comes to mind,deliberately voice a positive one to cancel it out.

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

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.

We are all capable of greater things than we realize.

Yesterday ended last night. Every day is a new beginning. Learn the skill of forgetting. And move on.

A positive thinker does not refuse to recognize the negative; he refuses to dwell on it. Positive thinking is a form of thought which habitually looks for the best results from the worst conditions

The first step is to fill your life with positive faith that will help you through anything. The second step is to start where you are.

There is a basic law that like attracts like. Negative thinking definitely attracts negative results. Conversely, if a person habitually thinks optimistically and hopefully, his positive thinking sets in motion creative forces - and success instead of eluding him flows toward him.

Positive thinking is how you think about a problem. Enthusiasm is how you feel about a problem. The two together determine what you do about a problem.

Anybody can do just about anything with himself that he really wants to and makes up his mind to do. We are all capable of greater things than we realize.

Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow.

Whenever a negative thought concerning your personal power comes to mind, deliberately voice a positive thought to cancel it out.

Think joy, talk joy, practice joy, share joy, saturate your mind with joy, and you will have the time of your life today and every day all your life.

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

Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate.

The positive thinker, on the contrary, constantly sends out positive thoughts, together with vital mental images of hope, optimism and creativity. He therefore activates the world around him positively and strongly tends to draw back to himself positive results. This, too, is a basic law of mind action.

Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.

Have great hopes and dare to go all out for them. Have great dreams and dare to live them. Have tremendous expectations and believe in them.

Make sure you pay attention to what's right with your life, not just what's wrong.

Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there.

Today remind yourself that nothing is too good to be true. Your great hopes can be realized. Your most wonderful dreams can come true. All that you really need, you can have. An incredible goodness is operating on your behalf. If you are living a paltry life, resolve to stop it today. Expect great things to happen.

Begin where you are. Don't wait for someone else to change things for you. Do it yourself

Believe in yourself, believe in your future.

Negative thinking definitely attracts negative results.

Expect the best, not the worst, and you will attain your heart's desire.

What seems impossible one minute becomes, through faith, possible the next.