Norman Vincent Peale
Norman Vincent Peale
Norman Vincent Pealewas an American minister and authorand a progenitor of "positive thinking". His ideas were not accepted by mental health experts...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionSelf-Help Author
Date of Birth31 May 1898
CityBowersville, OH
CountryUnited States of America
trouble holes lifts
When I dig another out of trouble, the hole from which I lift him is the place where I bury my own.
attitude shining impossible
Eliminate the word "impossible" from your conversation, drop it from your thoughts, erase it from your attitudes. Stop rationalizing it. Cease excusing it. Substitute for it that bright and shining word...POSSIBLE."
hurt mean cutting
The word resentment means to re-feel...to feel again. Someone wrongs or wounds you; in resenting it, you re-feel the injury. And you re-hurt yourself. The Hebrew Talmud says that a person who bears a grudge is "Like one who, having cut one hand while handling a knife, avenges himself by stabbing the other hand."
dream character mean
I was brought up on the romance of American achievement. No matter where you start, if you work hard and if you think positively and if you dream dreams and if you have good character, you can lift the status of yourself, your family, your friends and everyone around you. This doesn't mean that your object in life is to become rich or famous. Just do the best you can with yourself. I think that Almighty God has put that into us and I'm going to do the best I can with myself. That's what I call the romance of achievement. Achievement means to be what, by the grace of God, you can be....
emotional age needs
The longer I live the more I am convinced that neither age nor circumstance needs to deprive us of energy and vitality. We are at last awakening to the close relationship between religion and health. . . .our physical condition is determined very largely by our emotional condition, and our emotional life is profoundly regulated by our thought life.
thinking talking acting
You can make yourself enthusiastic by affirming enthusiasm and by thinking, talking, acting enthusiastic.
believe religion loved-ones
I believe absolutely and certainly that, when you die, you will meet your loved ones and know them and be reunited with them, never to be seperated again.
success believe answers
Believe that problems do have answers, that they can be overcome, and that you can solve them.
inspirational-life block successful
The one person who most blocks you from a full, happy, and successful life is you.
giving way obstacles
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.
successful people goal
All successful people have a goal. No one can get anywhere unless he knows where he wants to go and what he wants to be or do.
imagination obstacles power-of-positive-thinking
Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.
glasses half-empty bother
Don't bother. The glass is half-empty.
thanksgiving gratitude art
A basic law: the more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for.