Change your thoughts and you change your world.
NORMAN VINCENT PEALEWhen you affirm big, believe big and pray big, big things happen.
More Norman Vincent Peale Quotes
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We tend to get what we expect.
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Whatever your problem, no matter how difficult, you can release spiritual power sufficient to solve your problem. The secret is–pray and believe.
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Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven’t half the strength you think they have.
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Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.
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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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Not every day can be an easy one, nor every day fully happy; but even a day of tough going and difficulty can be a good day.
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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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Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself.
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Let a series of happy thoughts run through your mind. They will show on your face.
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Fear is never a reason for quitting; it is only an excuse.
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Fear can infect us early in life until eventually it cuts a deep groove of apprehension in all our thinking. To counteract it, let faith, hope and courage enter your thinking. Fear is strong, but faith is stronger yet.
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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.
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Faith supplies staying power. Anyone can keep going when the going is good, but some extra ingredient is needed to keep you fighting when it seems that everything is against you.
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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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People fail to understand that unless they are themselves willing to give, they will never receive.
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A basic law: the more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for.
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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.
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Make a mental list of happy thoughts and pass them through your mind several times every day.
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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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Nothing is more confusing than people who give good advice but set a bad example.
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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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A positive thinker does not refuse to recognize the negative; he refuses to dwell on it. Positive thinking is a form of thought which habitually looks for the best results from the worst conditions
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Help other people to cope with their problems, and your own will be easier to cope with.
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If you put off everything till you’re sure of it, you’ll never get anything done.
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You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.
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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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