Quotes from Norman Vincent Peale

The secret of life is not in what happens to you. It is in what you do with it that happens to you.

Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented, and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful. Such attitudes are active and definite factors in creating satisfactory conditions. Watch your manner of speech then if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind.

Our problem is to become acquainted with our own selves, letting our personalities loose upon the world for the sheer adventure of their full development and in the positive hope that they may in their own way lift the level of humanity.

We build up the feeling of insecurity or security by how we think. If in our thoughts we constantly fix attention upon sinister expectations of dire events that might happen, the result will be constantly to feel insecure. And what is even more serious is the tendency to create, by the power of thought, the very condition we fear.

hard work, positive thinking, fair dealing, right treatment of people, and the proper kind of praying always get results. This

The world in which you live is not primarily determined by outward conditions and circumstances but by the thoughts that habitually occupy your mind.

Self-knowledge is the beginning of self-correction.

Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus." (Philippians 3:13-14)

Any occupation, any job has excitement in it if you have some excitement in you.

One never does wrong by doing right.

What you can image, you will be, in the long run.