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Quotes By Norman Vincent Peale
When Alexander Graham Bell Was working on the telephone in 1876, he spilled battery acid on his pants and called out to his assistant, "Watson, please come here. I want you." Watson, who was on another floor, heard the call through the instrument he was hooking up, and ran to Bell's room. Bell's words became the first ever successfully communicated using a telephone.
"Be an all-out, not a hold-out."
There is real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment."
"Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds..."
Throw back the shoulders, let the heart sing, let the eyes flash, let the mind be lifted up, look upward and say to yourself Nothing is impossible!
“Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.”
"Empty pockets never held anyone back.
Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that." ~Norman Vincent Peale~
"No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities - always see them, for they're always there."
"Never react emotionally to criticism. Analyze yourself to determine whether it is justified. If it is, correct yourself. Otherwise, go on about your business."
"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."
Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.
"Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities --
always see them, for they're always there."
“What seems impossible one minute becomes, through faith, possible the next.”
It's an actual fact that if you've been moping in unhappiness, you can
choose to be joyous instead and, by effort, lift yourself into joy. If you tend
to be fearful, you can overcome that misery by choosing to have courage. Even in darkest grief you have a choice. The whole trend and quality of anyone's
life is determined in the long run by the choices that are made.
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