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No matter how many worries and anxieties harass you, remember always that they are removable. Enthusiasm with its immense mental and spiritual power can cancel out all fear.

No matter how many worries and anxieties harass you, remember always that they are removable. Enthusiasm with its immense mental and spiritual power can cancel out all fear.

Norman Vincent Peale
Motivational, Spiritual, Worry
Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2003). “Enthusiasm Makes the Difference”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

Silence fertilizes the deep place where personality grows. A life with a peaceful center can weather all storms.

Norman Vincent Peale
Peace, Weather, Silence
Norman Vincent Peale (1957). “Stay Alive all Your Life”

Infantile people complain and say that God is cruel or that there is no God. Mature people, however, know that there is wisdom and sometimes an eternal kindness in God's refusals.

Norman Vincent Peale
Kindness, People, Complaining

Worry is an unhealthy and destructive mental habit.

Norman Vincent Peale
Inspiring, Worry, Inspire
Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2003). “The Power of Positive Thinking: 10 Traits for Maximum Results”, p.135, Simon and Schuster

Don't tense up no matter what, for you only close off creative power when you do.

Norman Vincent Peale
Success, Creative, Matter
Norman Vincent Peale (1986). “The Tough-Minded Optimist”, Fawcett Books

Never say anything to hurt anyone. Moreover . . . refrain from double talk, from shrewd and canny remarks that are designed to advance our interests at someone's disadvantage. We are to turn our back upon evil, and in every way possible, do good, help people and bring blessings into their lives.

Norman Vincent Peale
Inspirational, Motivational, Hurt

The trouble with the average person is that he doesn't trust himself sufficiently to create and deliver ideas.

Norman Vincent Peale
Confidence, Average, Ideas

I was brought up on the romance of American achievement. No matter where you start, if you work hard and if you think positively and if you dream dreams and if you have good character, you can lift the status of yourself, your family, your friends and everyone around you. This doesn't mean that your object in life is to become rich or famous. Just do the best you can with yourself. I think that Almighty God has put that into us and I'm going to do the best I can with myself. That's what I call the romance of achievement. Achievement means to be what, by the grace of God, you can be.

Norman Vincent Peale
Dream, Hard Work, Character

Optimism is a philosophy based on the belief that basically life is good, that, in the long run, the good in life overbalances the evil.

Norman Vincent Peale
Running, Philosophy, Life Is Good
Norman Vincent Peale (2015). “Have a Great Day: Daily Affirmations for Positive Living”, p.16, Open Road Media

It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small matters over a period of years. But the catch is that you can never know when a seemingly small decision may prove to be, from the vantage of later years, the big decision of your life.

Norman Vincent Peale
Years, Careers, Decision

The word "no" denotes a shutting of the door. It means failure, defeat, delay. But spell in backwards and take new hope, for backwards it spells "on."

Norman Vincent Peale
Mean, Doors, Delay
Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2013). “You Can If You Think You Can”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

The mind quickly responds to teaching and discipline. You can make the mind give you back anything you want.

Norman Vincent Peale
Teaching, Discipline, Giving
Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2003). “The Power of Positive Thinking: 10 Traits for Maximum Results”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

The man who lives for himself is a failure; the man who lives for others has achieved true success.

Norman Vincent Peale
Men, Live For Others, He Man

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

Norman Vincent Peale
Wealth, Capitalist

If there is no fun in it, something is wrong with all you are doing.

Norman Vincent Peale
Fun, Ifs
Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2008). “Positive Thinking Every Day: An Inspiration For Each Day of the Year”, Simon and Schuster

Just as we may learn from our successes (how to do it) so also can we learn from our mistakes (how not to do it). It just isn't in the cards that anybody should get by forever without making mistakes and perhaps sometimes making costly ones.

Norman Vincent Peale
Mistake, Forever, Cards

Dare to be what you ought to be, dare to be what you dream to be, dare to be the finest you can be. The more you dare, the surer you will be of gaining just what you dare!

Norman Vincent Peale
Dream, Vision, Finest
Norman Vincent Peale (1986). “Have a Great Day”, Fawcett Books

If you feel afraid, you can make yourself courageous by acting courageous. If you are feeling unhappy, by deliberately acting happy you can induce happy feeling. If you are lacking in enthusiasm, by simply acting enthusiastic you can make yourself enthusiastic.

Norman Vincent Peale
Feelings, Unhappy, Acting
Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2008). “Positive Thinking Every Day: An Inspiration For Each Day of the Year”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

You only lose energy when life becomes dull in your mind. Your mind gets bored and therefore tired of doing nothing.

Norman Vincent Peale
Tired, Bored, Mind
Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2003). “The Power of Positive Thinking: 10 Traits for Maximum Results”, p.51, Simon and Schuster

So deep and meaningful is the joy and the enthusiasm that is born in one's mind and heart by human love and helpfulness that it has the power to motivate for a lifetime. . . . You don't have to be a doctor to say or do that which puts light in a human eye or joy on a human face. Simply practice Jesus' commandment that we love one another. Go out and do something for somebody. These are the things that make happy people. Here is the one never-failing source of the joy and enthusiasm we are talking about.

Norman Vincent Peale
Love, Meaningful, Jesus

Be interesting, be enthusiastic... and don't talk too much.

Norman Vincent Peale
Wise, Interesting, Insightful

Practice excited thinking until you become excited and exciting.

Norman Vincent Peale
Thinking, Practice, Healthy
Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2013). “You Can If You Think You Can”, p.198, Simon and Schuster

Great issues develop from small beginnings.

Norman Vincent Peale
Time, Issues, Small Beginnings
Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2007). “A Guide to Confident Living”, p.190, Simon and Schuster

Hold the thought of all elements of the body working together in perfect rhythm.

Norman Vincent Peale
Memories, Perfect, Working Together
Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2013). “You Can If You Think You Can”, p.274, Simon and Schuster

Only the person who risks is truly free. A man's conquest of himself dwarfs the conquest of Mt. Everest.

Norman Vincent Peale
Men, Risk, Everest

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