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
mind lists happy-thoughts
Make a mental list of happy thoughts and pass them through your mind several times every day.
motivation giving abandon
Go at life with abandon; give it all you've got. And life will give all it has to you.
prayer successful today
Today any successful and competent businessman will employ the latest and best-tested methods in production, distribution, and administration. Many are discovering that one of the greatest of all efficiency methods is prayer power.
self-esteem thinking forget
Forget yourself! Think courage.
success work believe
Four things for success: work and pray, think and believe.
strong struggle blow
Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.
inspirational-life believe secret
The great secret of getting what you want from life is to know whay you want and believe you can have it. Always do something for others, then ask God to help you get at it.
promise religion doe
Religion does not blithely promise some sort of no-trouble, no-problem, no-poverty world; but rather a spirit, a power, an enthusiasm that endows everyone with the ability to overcome any and all of it.
god defeat god-is-with-you
Remind yourself that God is with you and nothing can defeat him.
hopefulness hard
Always maintain hopefulness, especially when the going is hard.
mistake forever may
Just as we may learn from our successes (how to do it) so also can we learn from our mistakes (how not to do it). It just isn't in the cards that anybody should get by forever without making mistakes and perhaps sometimes making costly ones.
stress helping plenty
Stress the thought of plenty. Thoughts of plenty help create plenty.
climbing risk mountain
The greatest risk in life is to risk nothing. The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing and becomes nothing.
men thinking principles
One of the greatest of all principles is that men can do what they think they can do.