Norman Vincent Peale
Norman Vincent Peale
Norman Vincent Pealewas an American minister and authorand a progenitor of "positive thinking". His ideas were not accepted by mental health experts...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionSelf-Help Author
Date of Birth31 May 1898
CityBowersville, OH
CountryUnited States of America
Norman Vincent Peale quotes about
dream attitude optimistic
A wish is an attitude of mind to which wings have been attached. You wish and you dream, and your whole nature focuses to bring your wishes and dreams to pass.
motivational opportunity ideas
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.
confidence ideas average
The trouble with the average person is that he doesn't trust himself sufficiently to create and deliver ideas.
healing thinking medicine
Many people conceive of religion as something apart from everyday affairs of the world. They think of it in terms of ceremony or ritual or sermons and often it strikes them as being dull or not particularly interesting. Religion may be described in many ways. I like to think of it as a medicine, a healing medicine for the mind.
religion world good-things
Almighty God freely bestows the good things in this world in proportion to a person's mental readiness to receive.
great-things
Expect great things, and great things will come.
unhappy determined capacity
The capacity to be either happy or unhappy is determined by the manner in which you react to whatever happens.
friendship principles courageous
The as if principle works. Act as if you were not afraid and you will become courageous, as if you could and you'll find you can. Act as if you like a person and you'll find a friendship.
perseverance want facts
One of the simplest things about all facts of life is that to get where you want to go, you must keep on keeping on.
toss use impossible
Never use the word “impossible” seriously again. Toss it into the verbal wastebucket.
facts projects
It is a fact that you project what you are.
giving people advice
Nothing is more confusing than people who give good advice but set a bad example.
strong fear cutting
Fear can infect us early in life until eventually it cuts a deep groove of apprehension in all our thinking. To counteract it, let faith, hope and courage enter your thinking. Fear is strong, but faith is stronger yet.
encouragement thinking happens
When we start focusing on things we can do and don't think so much about the things we can't do, things really start to happen