More Quotes by Norman Vincent Peale
If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.
Every person, if he is to have mental health and live successfully, must move away from past failures and mistakes and go forward without letting them be a weight upon him. The art of forgetting is absolutely necessary.
Believe you can, and you can. Belief is one of the most powerful of all problem dissolvers. When you believe that a difficulty can be overcome, you are more than halfway to victory over it already.
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.
Promise yourself success at the beginning of each day, and you'll be surprised how often things will turn out that way.
We are all capable of greater things than we realize.
When you affirm big, believe big and pray big, big things happen.
The only people who don't have problems are in a cemetery.
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.
As long as enthusiasm holds out, so will new opportunities.
