Norman Vincent Peale Quotes

Dr. Norman Vincent Peale was a minister and author and a progenitor of the theory of “positive thinking”.
Born: May 31, 1898, Bowersville
Died: December 24, 1993, Pawling

When you get up in the morning, you have two choices – either to be happy or to be unhappy. Just choose to be happy
-Norman Vincent Peale

Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You’ll find they haven’t half the strength you think they have.
-Norman Vincent Peale

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
-Norman Vincent Peale

You become a worrier by practicing worry. You become free of worry by practicing the opposite.
-Norman Vincent Peale

Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.
-Norman Vincent Peale

Change your thoughts and you change your world.
-Norman Vincent Peale

Optimism, when applied to your life, develops strength and peace within you.
-Norman Vincent Peale

The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
-Norman Vincent Peale

What the mind can conceive and believe, and the heart desire, you can achieve.
-Norman Vincent Peale

You must conceive it in your heart and mind before you can receive it. If you believe then all things are possible.
-Norman Vincent Peale

The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
-Norman Vincent Peale

Change yourself and your work will seem different.
-Norman Vincent Peale

We’ve all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it’s more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.
-Norman Vincent Peale

When every physical and mental resources is focused, one’s power to solve a problem multiplies tremendously.
-Norman Vincent Peale

Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
-Norman Vincent Peale