611 Quotes by Norman Vincent Peale

One person can make a difference. You don't have to be a big shot. You don't have to have a lot of influence. You just have to have faith in your power to change things.

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.

Put your trust in God and just go calmly on your way.

And if the mind thinks with a believing attitude one can do amazing things.

As long as enthusiasm holds out, so will new opportunities.

If you expect the best, you will be the best. Learn to use one of the most powerful laws in this world; change your mental habits to belief instead of disbelief. Learn to expect, not to doubt. In so doing, you bring everything into the realm of possibility.

Expecting the best means that you put your whole heart (i.e. the central essence of your personality) into what you want to accomplish. People are defeated in life not because of lack of ability, but for lack of wholeheartedness. They do not wholeheartedly expect to succeed. Their heart isn't in it, which is to say, they themselves are not fully given.

If you have zest and enthusiasm you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind.

The right kind of fear will keep us from doing wrong. The rough is only mental - it is rough only because your think it is.