If you want a quality, act as if you already have it. If you want to be courageous, act as if you were – and as you act and persevere in acting, so you tend to become.
NORMAN VINCENT PEALEIf you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.
More Norman Vincent Peale Quotes
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I believe in the power of Jesus Christ to resolve any difficulty, to remove any weakness, to heal any disease.
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Medication is of course important but do not conclude that a pill dissolving in your stomach is necessarily more powerful than a healing thought in your mind.
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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.
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We tend to get what we expect.
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Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don’t have any problems, you don’t get any seeds.
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Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities — always see them, for they’re always there.
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Do not build up obstacles in your imagination. Difficulties must be studied and dealt with, but they must not be magnfied by fear.
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Expect great things, and great things will come.
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Trouble is here. It is for a purpose. Use it for the purpose for which it was intended – to help you grow. Thank God for your troubles.
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People fail to understand that unless they are themselves willing to give, they will never receive.
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Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
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The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results.
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Have great hopes and dare to go all out for them. Have great dreams and dare to live them. Have tremendous expectations and believe in them.
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You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.
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Learn to relax. Your body is precious, as it houses your mind and spirit. Inner peace begins with a relaxed body.
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