Norman Vincent Peale Famous Quotes
It's always too early to quit.
"Never say anything to hurt anyone. Moreover . . . refrain from double talk, from shrewd and canny remarks that are designed to advance our interests at someone's disadvantage. We are to turn our back upon evil, and in every way possible, do good, help people and bring blessings into their lives."
When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him. You lift the relationship thereby to a higher level. The best in the other person begins to flow out toward you as your best flows toward him. In the meeting of the best in each a higher unity of understanding is established.
"Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there."
"Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure."
Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow.
Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.
Believe in yourself Have faith in your abilities Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture...Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.
Norman Vincent Peale Quotations
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
A man is related to all nature.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There's a very fine line between a groove and a rut a fine line between eccentrics and people who are just plain nuts.
Christine Lavin
It's the possibility that when you're dead you might still go on hurting that bothers me.
Keri Hulme
"What then have I done What, except yield to a natural feeling, inspired by beauty, sanctioned by virtue and kept at all times within the bounds of respect. It's innocent expression prompted not by hope but by trust."
Vicomte de Valmont
"It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts."
Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin
"Well, it looks like the all-star balloting is about over, especially in the National and American Leagues."
Jerry Coleman
"Youth is not enough. And love is not enough. And success is not enough. And, if we could achieve it, enough would not be enough."
Mignon McLaughlin
The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.
D H Lawrence
It's not enough that I should succeed -- others should fail.
David Merrick