When you affirm big, believe big and pray big, big things happen.
NORMAN VINCENT PEALEAction 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.
More Norman Vincent Peale Quotes
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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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The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
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Throw back the shoulders, let the heart sing, let the eyes flash, let the mind be lifted up, look upward and say to yourself … nothing is impossible!
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People fail to understand that unless they are themselves willing to give, they will never receive.
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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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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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Put your trust in God and just go calmly on your way.
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To be successful is to be helpful, caring and constructive, to make everything and everyone you touch a little bit better.
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Promise yourself success at the beginning of each day, and you’ll be surprised how often things will turn out that way.
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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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How you think about a problem is more important than the problem itself. So always think positively.
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Thoughts and words form your mental image. And since we become what we picture be sure your thoughts and words express prosperity and blessing rather than poverty and defeat.
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Change your thoughts and you change your world.
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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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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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Ask for what you want, but be willing to take what God gives you. It may be better than what you asked for.
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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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Begin where you are. Don’t wait for someone else to change things for you. Do it yourself.
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Often we have no choice about doing things, but we can always choose how to do them.
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Have absolutely no sense of guilt about being happy and successful if you operate honestly and with a sense of social responsibility.
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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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Fear is never a reason for quitting; it is only an excuse.
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Positive thinking is how you think about a problem. Enthusiasm is how you feel about a problem. The two together determine what you do about a problem.
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Never let any mistake cause you to stop believing in yourself. Learn from it and go on.
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If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.
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