He has helped millions of people to develop increased quality of life and happiness.
He was a pioneer in the self-improvement industry, helping millions to believe in themselves and achieve success
and happiness by harnessing the power of positive thinking coupled with positive action. His bestselling book,
"The Power of Positive Thinking", is one of the top selling books of the twentieth century.
Dr. Peale was the recipient of many awards throughout his long and illustrious career, including the
Presidential Medal of Freedom. His philosophy and books are based largely on his pioneering work with the
Religio-Psychiatric Clinic of the American Foundation of Religion and Psychiatry, of which he was president.
(1898 - 1993)
Change yourself and your work will seem different.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
You will soon break the bow if you keep it always stretched.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
Four things for success: work and pray, think and believe.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
Imagination is the true magic carpet.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
The tests of life are not meant to break you, but to make you.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
A positive mental attitude is a belief that things are going to turn out well, and that you
can overcome any kind of trouble or difficulty.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
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
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
When every physical and mental resources is focused, one's power to solve a problem multiplies tremendously.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
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.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
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
As long as enthusiasm holds out, so will new opportunities.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
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
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
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
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
It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with
yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
We tend to get what we expect.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently
enough, becomes an automatic reflex.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
Be interesting, be enthusiastic... and don't talk too much.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
American poet, philosopher, lecturer, and essayist of 19th century America.
An isolated and self-sufficient individual deeply involved in study of his social relationships, anti-slavery activity and
focus on his mature ethical thought.
His essays can be appreciated for their imaginative, paradoxical, accumulative and analogical rhetoric. This great man had a
strong influence on American poetry, his connections with the later philosophical movement of pragmatism, and his contributions
to the theory of democracy are remembered.
(1803-1882)
There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.
~ Charles Dickens
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
~ George Bernard Shaw
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
~ Friedrich NietzscheMore Proverbs
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