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Norman Vincent Peale Quotes
Norman Vincent Peale Quotes
Norman Vincent Peale
American
Clergyman
Born:
May 31
,
1898
Died:
Dec 24
,
1993
Attitude
Happy
Life
Will
You
Yourself
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Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
Norman Vincent Peale
Motivational
Faith
You
Confidence
Happy
Yourself
Humble
Believe In Yourself
Own
Believe
Ability
Powers
Without
Cannot
Successful
Your
Reasonable
It's always too early to quit.
Norman Vincent Peale
Motivational
Too
Always
Quit
Early
The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale
Criticism
Trouble
Saved
Ruined
Would
Rather
Most
Praise
Than
Us
Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
Norman Vincent Peale
Back
Pockets
Only
Never
Heads
Empty
Hearts
Anyone
Held
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.
Norman Vincent Peale
Attitude
Day
You
Happy
Mind
Will
Wish
Pleasant
State
Tend
Develop
Days
Attitudes
Contented
Affirming
Manner
Successful
Your
Each
Each Day
Peaceful
Start
Watch
Speech
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.
Norman Vincent Peale
Great
You
Confidence
Fear
Better
Result
Cause
Will
Action
Adjustment
Follow
Only
Take
Perhaps
Builder
Than
Any
Different
Inaction
Successful
Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.
Norman Vincent Peale
Strength
You
Will
Half
Think
Find
About
Something
Obstacles
Up
Them
Stand
Your
Stand Up
There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
Norman Vincent Peale
Enthusiasm
Mediocrity
Spells
Magic
Between
Real
Accomplishment
Difference
Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex.
Norman Vincent Peale
Thought
Action
Enough
Physical
Habit
Develops
Frequently
Becomes
Repeated
Repetition
Reflex
Same
Automatic
Which
Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.
Norman Vincent Peale
You
Problem
Problems
Own
Every
Solution
Seeds
Get
Any
When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.
Norman Vincent Peale
Attitude
You
Tend
Toward
Him
Pray
Pray For
Personal
Anyone
Modify
Your
We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.
Norman Vincent Peale
Struggle
Complexities
Avoid
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.
Norman Vincent Peale
Success
Attitude
Failure
You
Overcome
Important
Before
Defeat
Think
Our
Way
About
Determines
Facing
Fact
Toward
Because
Any
May
Anything
Us
Ever
Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.
Norman Vincent Peale
Happiness
Life
Victory
Fighting
Consists
Battles
Part
Retreat
Itself
Them
Avoiding
If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.
Norman Vincent Peale
You
Happy
Yourself
Mind
Picture
Put
Condition
Goal
Conducive
Expectations
Your
Paint
Bright
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.
Norman Vincent Peale
Yourself
Mind
Will
Picture
Build
Imagination
Indelibly
Seek
Mental
Never
Develop
Fade
Obstacles
Permit
Up
Hold
Formulate
Succeeding
Stamp
Your
Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.
Norman Vincent Peale
You
People
Other
Side
Merely
Like
Liking
Getting
Them
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.
Norman Vincent Peale
You
Important
Mistakes
Think
Our
More
Only
Learn
Heard
Errors
Successes
Your
Inclined
If you put off everything till you're sure of it, you'll never get anything done.
Norman Vincent Peale
You
Everything
Never
Put
Sure
Till
Off
Get
Done
Anything
The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.
Norman Vincent Peale
Life
Peace
Stress
Harmonious
Type
Easiest
Without
Existence
Being
Inner
Inner Peace
One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.
Norman Vincent Peale
Experience
Hide
Tries
Determines
He
Developing
Longer
Himself
Greatest
Get
Anybody
Acquainted
Really
Moments
Be interesting, be enthusiastic... and don't talk too much.
Norman Vincent Peale
Too Much
Too
Enthusiastic
Talk
Interesting
Much
Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.
Norman Vincent Peale
Promises
Babies
Once
Carried
Out
Like
Crying
Theater
Should
When every physical and mental resources is focused, one's power to solve a problem multiplies tremendously.
Norman Vincent Peale
Problem
Power
Every
Tremendously
Resources
Focused
Solve
Physical
Mental
The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
Norman Vincent Peale
You
Yourself
Will
Lose
Energy
Something
More
Than
Bigger
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.
Norman Vincent Peale
You
Yourself
World
Seriously
Drop
Carrying
Would
Atlas
Take
Idea
Without
Go
Shoulders
Your
Even
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