Quotes from Norman Vincent Peale

Affirmative Prayers Release Powers By Which Positive Results Are Accomplished.

I don't believe in defeat'.

Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is. . . . ROMANS 12:2

Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it yourself. In giving it, you will accumulate a deposit of joy greater than you ever believed possible. ~ Norman Vincent Peale

Dr. Zachary T. Bercovitz told me: "Some people are actually draining into their bodies the diseased thoughts of their minds." Asked to specify these diseased thoughts, he replied, "Oh, the usual — fear, guilt, worry, frustration, tension, resentment, gloominess, despondency. In fact, if fear and resentment were eliminated from people's minds I believe our hospital population would be reduced by maybe fifty per cent. Certainly by a lot anyway."

Miracles are of all sizes. And if you start believing in little miracles, you can work up to the bigger ones.

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

And if the mind thinks with a believing attitude one can do amazing things.

Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun. Change your thoughts and you change your world.

Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.

Plan your work - work your plan. Lack of system produces that 'I'm swamped' feeling.

The how thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile ifs but goes right to work on the creative how.