Quotes from The Power of Positive Thinking

“The way to happiness: Keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Scatter sunshine, forget self, think of others. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.”
― Norman Vincent Peale, quote from The Power of Positive Thinking

“The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism”
― Norman Vincent Peale, quote from The Power of Positive Thinking

“I place this day, my life, my loved ones, my work in the Lord's hands. There is no harm in the Lord's hands, only good. Whatever happens, whatever results, if I am in the Lord's hands it is the Lord's will and it is good.”
― Norman Vincent Peale, quote from The Power of Positive Thinking

“Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture... Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.”
― Norman Vincent Peale, quote from The Power of Positive Thinking

“Stand up to an obstacle. Just stand up to it, that's all, and don't give way under it, and it will finally break. You will break it. Something has to break, and it won't be you, it will be the obstacle.”
― Norman Vincent Peale, quote from The Power of Positive Thinking

“Let nothing trouble you let nothing worry you everything passes away expect God God alone is sufficient”
― Norman Vincent Peale, quote from The Power of Positive Thinking

“The way to happiness: keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Fill your life with love. Scatter sunshine. Forget self, think of others. Do as you would be done by. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.”
― Norman Vincent Peale, quote from The Power of Positive Thinking

“Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate.”
― Norman Vincent Peale, quote from The Power of Positive Thinking

“YOU DO NOT need to be a victim of worry. Reduced to its simplest form, what is worry? It is simply an unhealthy and destructive mental habit.”
― Norman Vincent Peale, quote from The Power of Positive Thinking

“When you expect the best, you release a magnetic force in your mind which by a law of attraction tends to bring the best to you.”
― Norman Vincent Peale, quote from The Power of Positive Thinking

“To become a happy person have a clean soul, eyes that see romance in the commonplace, a child’s heart, and spiritual simplicity.”
― Norman Vincent Peale, quote from The Power of Positive Thinking

“We are beginning to comprehend a basic truth hitherto neglected, that our physical condition is determined very largely by our emotional condition, and our emotional life is profoundly regulated by our thought life.”
― Norman Vincent Peale, quote from The Power of Positive Thinking

“It is significant that the word “holiness” derives from a word meaning “wholeness” and the word “meditation,” usually used in a religious sense, closely resembles the root meaning of the word “medication.” The affinity of the two words is startlingly evident when we realize that sincere and practical meditation upon God and His truth acts as a medication for the soul and body.”
― Norman Vincent Peale, quote from The Power of Positive Thinking

“BELIEVE IN YOURSELF! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy. But with sound self-confidence you can succeed. A sense of inferiority and inadequacy interferes with the attainment of your hopes, but self-confidence leads to self-realization and successful achievement.”
― Norman Vincent Peale, quote from The Power of Positive Thinking

“Personally, I believe that prayer is a sending out of vibrations from one person to another and to God. All of the universe is in vibration. There are vibrations in the molecules of a table. The air is filled with vibrations. The reaction between human beings is also in vibration. When you send out a prayer for another person, you employ the force inherent in a spiritual universe. You transport from yourself to the other person a sense of love, helpfulness, support—a sympathetic, powerful understanding—and in this process you awaken vibrations in the universe through which”
― Norman Vincent Peale, quote from The Power of Positive Thinking

“when the old fears, hates, and worries that have haunted you for so long try to edge back in, they will in effect find a sign on the door of your mind reading “occupied.”
― Norman Vincent Peale, quote from The Power of Positive Thinking

“One of the most powerful concepts, one which is a sure cure for lack of confidence, is the thought that God is actually with you and helping you. This is one of the simplest teachings in religion, namely, that Almighty God will be your companion, will stand by you, help you, and see you through. No other idea is so powerful in developing self-confidence as this simple belief when practiced. To practice it simply affirm “God is with me; God is helping me; God is guiding me.”
― Norman Vincent Peale, quote from The Power of Positive Thinking

“The greatest secret for eliminating the inferiority complex, which is another term for deep and profound self-doubt, is to fill your mind to overflowing with faith. Develop a tremendous faith in God and that will give you a humble yet soundly realistic faith in yourself.”
― Norman Vincent Peale, quote from The Power of Positive Thinking

“sudden I stopped. I was out of breath. I asked myself, “What is this all about? What is the meaning of this ceaseless rush? This is ridiculous!” Then I declared independence, and said, “I do not care if I go to dinner. I do not care whether I make a talk. I do not have to go to this dinner and I do not have to make a speech.” So deliberately and slowly I walked back to my room and took my time about unlocking the door. I telephoned the man downstairs and said, “If you want to eat, go ahead. If you want to save a place for me, I will be down after a while, but I am not going to rush any more.” So I removed my coat, sat down, took off my shoes, put my feet up on the table, and just sat. Then I opened the Bible and very slowly read aloud the 121st Psalm, “I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills from whence cometh my help.” I closed the book and had a little talk with myself, saying, “Come on now, start living a slower and more relaxed life,” and then I affirmed, “God is here and His”
― Norman Vincent Peale, quote from The Power of Positive Thinking

“If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed … nothing shall be impossible unto you.”
― Norman Vincent Peale, quote from The Power of Positive Thinking

“We build up the feeling of insecurity or security by how we think. If in our thoughts we constantly fix attention upon sinister expectations of dire events that might happen, the result will be constantly to feel insecure. And what is even more serious is the tendency to create, by the power of thought, the very condition we fear.”
― Norman Vincent Peale, quote from The Power of Positive Thinking

“Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.”
― Norman Vincent Peale, quote from The Power of Positive Thinking

“but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.” (Philippians 3:13-14)”
― Norman Vincent Peale, quote from The Power of Positive Thinking

“hard work, positive thinking, fair dealing, right treatment of people, and the proper kind of praying always get results. This”
― Norman Vincent Peale, quote from The Power of Positive Thinking

“Faith, belief, positive thinking, faith in God, faith in other people, faith in yourself, faith in life. This is the essence of the technique that teaches. “If thou canst believe,” it says, “all things are possible to him that believeth” (Mark 9:23). “If ye have faith … nothing shall be impossible unto you” (Matthew 17:20). “According to your faith be it unto you” (Matthew 9:29). Believe—believe—so it drives home the truth that faith moves mountains.”
― Norman Vincent Peale, quote from The Power of Positive Thinking

“that verse many times, but it never had any effect”
― Norman Vincent Peale, quote from The Power of Positive Thinking

“O pensamento positivo pode vir naturalmente para alguns, mas também pode ser aprendido e cultivado, mude seus pensamentos e você mudará seu mundo.”
― Norman Vincent Peale, quote from The Power of Positive Thinking

“Basil King once said, “Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid.”
― Norman Vincent Peale, quote from The Power of Positive Thinking

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