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.
NORMAN VINCENT PEALEA basic law: the more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for.
More Norman Vincent Peale Quotes
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The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
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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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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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Don’t take tomorrow to bed with you.
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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.
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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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Every person, if he is to have mental health and live successfully, must move away from past failures and mistakes and go forward without letting them be a weight upon him. The art of forgetting is absolutely necessary.
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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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People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
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Change your thoughts and you change your world.
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Never react emotionally to criticism. Analyze yourself to determine whether it is justified. If it is, correct yourself. Otherwise, go on about your business.
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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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People fail to understand that unless they are themselves willing to give, they will never receive.
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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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The only people who don’t have problems are in a cemetery.
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