More Quotes by Norman Vincent Peale
A positive thinker does not refuse to recognize the negative; he refuses to dwell on it.
If you expect the best, you will be the best. Learn to use one of the most powerful laws in this world; change your mental habits to belief instead of disbelief. Learn to expect, not to doubt. In so doing, you bring everything into the realm of possibility.
The best way to forget your own problems is to help someone else solve theirs. The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live. The best way to respond to wrong is to do what's right. The better we know ourselves the less we'll criticize others. The bigger your problems, the bigger your prayer should be.
Promise yourself success at the beginning of each day, and you'll be surprised how often things will turn out that way.
Know what you want and believe that you can have it.
Believe that you are bigger than your difficulties, for you are, indeed.
Expecting the best means that you put your whole heart (i.e. the central essence of your personality) into what you want to accomplish. People are defeated in life not because of lack of ability, but for lack of wholeheartedness. They do not wholeheartedly expect to succeed. Their heart isn't in it, which is to say, they themselves are not fully given.
Help other people to cope with their problems, and your own will be easier to cope with.
Fill the day with enthusiasm. Give the day all you've got and it will give you all it's got, which will be plenty.
When you affirm big, believe big and pray big, big things happen.
