Quotes from Norman Vincent Peale

Think excitement, talk excitement, act out excitement, and you are bound to become an excited person. Life will take on a new zest, with deeper interests and greater meaning. You can think, talk and act yourself into dullness or into monotony or into unhappiness. By the same process you can build up inspiration, excitement and surging depth of joy.

Fear knocked at the door. Faith answered. No one was there.

A basic law: The more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for.

God is with me; God is helping me; God is guiding me." Spend several minutes each day visualising His presence. Then practise believing that affirmation. Go about your business on the assumption that what you have affirmed and visualised is true. Affirm it, visualise it, believe it, and it will actualise itself. The release of power which this procedure stimulates will astonish you.

If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up.

You need be defeated only if you are willing to be.

When you affirm big, believe big and pray big, putting faith into action, big things happen.

Start looking for joy and you'll find it.

What is the kingdom of God like? . . . It is like a mustard seed, which a man took and planted in his garden. It grew and became a tree, and the birds of the air perched in its branches." LUKE 13:18—19

Courage can be many things, but the secret of courage is simply and honestly to admit your feelings of failure. And then with God's help go on and do your job in spite of them.

Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.

Knowing how to help people is an art and the person who knows how to do it can always know that he will have the lasting affection of many.