Quotes from Norman Vincent Peale

If you are not getting as much from life as you want to, then examine the state of your enthusiasm.

If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed … nothing shall be impossible unto you.

When you expect the best, you release a magnetic force in your mind which by a law of attraction tends to bring the best to you.

The man who lives for himself is a failure; the man who lives for others has achieved true success.

What the mind can conceive and believe, and the heart desire, you can achieve.

Self-knowledge is the beginning of self-correction.

They are not easily irritated or annoyed. Some people seem to be able to rise above their irritations and they are fun to be with because they are poised and even-tempered. They seem to live on an upper level emotionally and are not easily riled up. They keep in a good humor and spirit.

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.

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

There is a real magic in enthuiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.

Grasp a difficulty by the "blade" and it cuts; grasp it by the "handle" and you can use it constructively.

Nothing during the year is so impressively convincing as the vision Christmas brings of what this world would be if love became the daily practice of human beings.