Quotes from Norman Vincent Peale

And if the criticized person takes it quietly without rancor, not striking back but constantly loving, he will gather in friends faster than his critics can manufacture enemies.

A major key to success in this life, to attaining that which you deeply desire, is to be completely released and throw all there is of yourself into your studies or any project in which you are engaged. In other words, whatever you are doing, give it all you've got.

Prayerize, visualize, actualize—that is the formula for successful imaging.

what you can image you can be.

A man who is self-reliant, positive, optimistic, and undertakes his work with the assurance of success magnetizes his condition. He draws to himself the creative powers of the universe.

Attitudes are more important than facts.

No man is happy who does not think himself so.

He was suffering from self-love, a chief cure for which is the practice of love for others.

cannot prevent birds from flying over your head, but you can keep them from building nests in your hair.

It is always there for the person who will surrender his life to the Lord and keep on doing so when difficulties arise.

It is always too soon to quit.

enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things; first, an ideal which takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for a carrying that ideal into practice.