Norman Vincent Peale

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities!

Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow.

Live your life and forget your age.

Getting people to like you is only the other side of liking them.

Imagination is the true magic carpet.

but every day and every night of your life, they are eating at you.

Problems are to the mind what exercise is to the muscles, they toughen and make strong. Problems make one better able to cope with life.

The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command to deliver mental resources.

Help us to be thankful for this day and every day and treat each one as a precious gem to be filled to the full with meaning and with love.

Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark thing seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities, always see them for they are always there.

The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results.

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.

There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment . . . It gives warmth and good feeling to all your personal relationships.

Change your thoughts and you Change your world.

You only lose energy when life becomes dull in your mind. Your mind gets bored and therefore tired of doing nothing. Get interested in something! Get absolutely enthralled with something! Get out of yourself! Be somebody! Do something! The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.

Have confidence that you can draw the best, not the worst, to yourself.

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

Never react emotionally to criticism. Analyze yourself to determine whether it is justified. If it is, correct yourself. Otherwise, go on about your business.

Always remember that problems contain values that have improvement potential.

People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.

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

The power of positive thinking.