- Always act as if it were impossible to fail, and God will see you through.
- Will you be a hero or a coward?
- That what you constantly think is going to happen, tends to happen.
- Big thoughts get big results, little thoughts get little results.
- Unselfish giving makes real giving possible.
- For so many people, failure is simply a matter of not making the expenditure of physical and mental effort that is needed for victory.
- A primary step in being well liked is simply to like other people and like them sincerely, not for a purpose.
- When you start to think positively about your relations with other people, when you start to see their behavior as a result of problems which they are not handling successfully, you quickly become one of the people people like.
- People who are able to turn criticism into a positive situation are going to attract friends.
- Whenever a man differs with you or criticizes you, try to show him by every look, by your demeanor, and by your actions that you love him.
- Always try to bring out the best in people and you will be welcomed wherever you go.
- Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you.
- Treat your body right if you want to feel right.
- The top can turn out to be a rat race and ulcers, if being at the top is all you're interested in.
- Forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark.
- To stimulate abundance, think. Really think there is a way to better conditions.
- Most fear is an unreal bluffing of the imagination.
- We don't really possess anything, except in our subconscious.
- A difficulty may break you, or it can make you. It all depends on how you take hold of it, and what you do with it.
- The only place I've ever been where people have no problems is a cemetery and there they are all dead.
- Christianity and Judaism are basically Oriental faiths and the value of quietness and meditation is emphasized in the Bible.
- To follow the will of God is to prosper; to rebel against the will of God is to be destroyed. -Mencius, sage of China
- It's amazing what simple persistence will do when you use it intelligently on your difficulties.
- You are indeed greater than any difficulty, always remember that.
- In quietness and confidence shall be your strength. - Isaiah 30:15
- Make every effort to keep your mind free of unhealthy thoughts.
Notes & Quotes: The Amazing Results of Positive Thinking by Norman Vincent Peale
Here are my favorite quotes from Norman Vincent Peale's The Amazing Results of Positive Thinking.