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Norman Vincent Peale

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Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the...
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE Don't take tomorrow to bed with you.
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE If you have zest and enthusiasm you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind.
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this pic...
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE Four things for success: work and pray, think and believe.
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE The how thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile ifs.
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back ...
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE Live your life and forget your age.
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full ...
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE I sometimes think we ought to bring a bill before Congress changing our national symbol from the eag...
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE Change yourself and your work will seem different.
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command ...
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, I believe, three times.
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE Worry is simply an unhealthy and destructive mental habit.
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE A peaceful mind generates power.
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or...
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE It's always too early to quit.
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the s...
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE The 'how' thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile 'ifs'.
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide fr...
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE If you put off everything till you're sure of it, you'll never get anything done.
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get...
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE What the mind can conceive and believe, and the heart desire, you can achieve.
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn fr...
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights an...
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE Lots of people limit their possibilities by giving up easily. Never tell yourself this is too much f...
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even wi...
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE Once we roared like lions for liberty; now we bleat like sheep for security! The solution for Americ...
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so r...
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly ret...
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or...
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE It is a fact that you project what you are.
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE When every physical and mental resources is focused, one's power to solve a problem multiplies treme...
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE The Gateway to Christianity is not through an intricate labyrinth of dogma, but by a simple belief i...
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself ...
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it.
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the str...
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE The first step is to fill your life with a positive faith that will help you through anything. The s...
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide fr...
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE We tend to get what we expect.
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condit...
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow.
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do.
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE Your enthusiasm will be infectious, stimulating and attractive to others. They will love you for it....
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE Resentment or grudges do no harm to the person against whom you hold these feelings but every day an...
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE Believe you are defeated, believe it long enough, and it is likely to become a fact.
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their d...
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this pi...
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishmen...
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE Be interesting, be enthusiastic... and don't talk to much.
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in you...
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause...
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hid...
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE Change your thoughts and you change your world.
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE It's always too early to quit.
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in you...
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE Imagination is the true magic carpet.
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even wi...
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affir...
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently e...
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE The meaning of life is to find your gift, the purpose of life is to give it away.
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE The trouble with most of us is that we'd rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights a...
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE Sometimes you have to let go to see if there was anything worth holding on to.
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE Think enthusiastically about everything; but especially about your job. If you do, you'll put a touc...
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this pic...
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you c...
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE It's always to soon to quit!
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE There is real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Culti...
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE A person with a hundred interests is twice as alive as one with only fifty and four times as alive a...
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilites-alw...
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE Don't take tomorrow to bed with you.
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE Help us to be thankful for this day and every day and treat each one as a precious gem to be filled ...
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE Be interesting, be enthusiastic... and don't talk too much.
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE Enthusiasm spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE Those who are fired with an enthusiastic idea and who allow it to take hold and dominate their thoug...
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE Problems are to the mind what exercise is to the muscles, they toughen and make strong
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to ...
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE The power of positive thinking
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or...
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE Trust yourself. Have confidence that you can draw the best, not the worst, to yourself.
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE A masterful retreat is itself a victory
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE I really believe kids want to do well. It's a coach's job to create an environment for them to be su...
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him. You lift the relation...
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE Anybody can do just about anything with himself that he really wants to and makes up his mind to do....
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE You only lose energy when life becomes dull in your mind. Your mind gets bored and therefore tired o...
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE Keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Fill yo...
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE The more you loose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE When a problem comes along, study it until you are completely knowledgeable. Then find that weak spo...
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE Know that you yourself are a miracle.
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE You will soon break the bow if you keep it always stretched.
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE Have great hopes and dare to go all out for them. Have great dreams and dare to live them. Have trem...
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself succeeding. Hold this pictu...
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE Life's blows cannot break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE Change your thoughts, and you change your world
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE Believe you are defeated, believe it long enough, and it is likely to become a fact
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, ''I believe,'' three times.
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself. In giving it, you w...
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE Believe it is possible to solve your problem. Tremendous things happen to the believer. So believe t...
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE Remember that "Help us grow this grass" is a far more effective sign than "Keep off the grass".
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Culti...
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they be...
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE You become a worrier by practicing worry. You become free of worry by practicing the opposite…
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE The way to happiness: keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect litt...
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE The purpose of writing inspirational notes is simply to build others up because there are too many p...
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE How you think about a problem is more important than the problem itself – so always think positive...
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE The way to happiness: Keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect litt...
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE principle. Act as if, and that which you practice will tend to be.
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE You would think that economy would be one of the easiest habits in the world to break but it isn't.
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE Don't duck the most difficult problems. That just insures that the hardest part will be left when yo...
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE Always remember that problems contain values that have improvement potential.
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE Become a "possibilitarian". No matter how dark thing seem to be or actually are, raise your sights a...
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE Picturize, prayerize, actualize
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE Never say anything to hurt anyone. Moreover... refrain from double talk, from shrewd and canny remar...
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or...
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE There is real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they be...
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command ...
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE Never react emotionally to criticism. Analyze yourself to determine whether it is justified. If it i...
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE Resentment or grudges do no harm to the person against whom you hold these feelings but every day an...
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE Too much caution is bad for you. By avoiding things you fear, you may let yourself in for unhappy co...
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE Age-based retirement arbitrarily severs productive persons from their livelihood, squanders their ta...
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE When you affirm big, believe big and pray big, putting faith into action, big things happen.
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE This is a dynamic and mysterious universe and human life is, no doubt, conditioned by imponderables ...
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE People who make no mistakes lack boldness and the spirit of adventure. They are the brakes on the wh...
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE Our problem is to become acquainted with our own selves, letting our personalities loose upon the wo...
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment ...
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE When every physical and mental resources is focused, one's power to solve a problem multiplies t...
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE Stand up to an obstacle. Just stand up to it, that's all, and don't give way under it, and it will f...
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented, and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be p...
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently ...
DR. NORMAN VINCENT PEALE If you have zest and enthusiasm you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind.
DR. NORMAN VINCENT PEALE Trouble is here. It is for a purpose. Use it for the purpose for which it was intended - to help y...
DR. NORMAN VINCENT PEALE WHEN YOU KNOW EXACTLY WHO YOU ARE, YOU NEVER HAVE TO HIDE.
NORMAN Find a need and fill it.
RUTH STAFFORD PEALE The best and most efficient pharmacy is within your own system.
ROBERT C. PEALE I think there's a worry that an excessive use or an almost exclusive use of text and emails mean...
VINCENT NICHOLS Acting is not a mystery. There's nothing that I know that other actors don't know. We all ac...
VINCENT D'ONOFRIO It doesn't need to be a number one show, it just needs to be good.
VINCENT D'ONOFRIO The minute you start feeling like you've got it down, you know what you're doing, you're...
VINCENT D'ONOFRIO When you are a character actor they trust you will go in and give them a full character and leave.
VINCENT D'ONOFRIO The Whole Wide World is the first movie I've ever produced.
VINCENT D'ONOFRIO People who are extremely inside their head, like he was, are caught in a neurosis that goes round an...
VINCENT D'ONOFRIO I think that being a producer is business and being an actor is art.
VINCENT D'ONOFRIO Like De Niro. He's one of the best character actors we have ever had.
VINCENT D'ONOFRIO The only thing I do worry about is that the more films I do the more visible I am going to become as...
VINCENT D'ONOFRIO I'll be working the rest of my life because I'm a character actor and don't have to worr...
VINCENT D'ONOFRIO I'm a character actor, and I made a choice when I was young, after 'Mystic Pizza', not t...
VINCENT D'ONOFRIO My partner Dan Ireland wants me to direct, and I read a lot of scripts - some good enough that I cou...
VINCENT D'ONOFRIO If you try to go beyond your interests just for the sake of pretensions or wealth, your art becomes ...
VINCENT D'ONOFRIO Look, all you can do when you find your niche is go with it.
VINCENT D'ONOFRIO This haunting idea of becoming a celebrity doesn't settle well with me at all.
VINCENT D'ONOFRIO The more you are known, the more difficult it is to hide behind characters.
VINCENT D'ONOFRIO What kind of recognition do I deserve? I don't deserve any recognition.
VINCENT D'ONOFRIO I learned a lot from Dick Wolf. I'll always remember playing that character because it was such ...
VINCENT D'ONOFRIO I guess I say this for younger actors out there: you have to be brave, and you have to be ready to f...
VINCENT D'ONOFRIO The search for the truth is not for the faint hearted.
VINCENT D'ONOFRIO Then I did Mystic Pizza, just to do something I wasn't fat in.
VINCENT D'ONOFRIO All of us are trying to achieve 100 percent in our work. That's all we struggle to do. We never ...
VINCENT D'ONOFRIO I am a method actor, but I'm also a film actor as well as a method actor. Characters that don...
VINCENT D'ONOFRIO To me the definition of true masculinity - and femininity, too - is being able to lay in your own sk...
VINCENT D'ONOFRIO But the one thing that I did do was establish myself as a good actor.
VINCENT D'ONOFRIO I didn't have many girlfriends in my youth. I was an active young man, jumping from one girl to ...
VINCENT CASSEL People look up to Jacques Mesrine as if he were a Robin Hood, stealing from the rich, but he never g...
VINCENT CASSEL I think I'm actually more vulnerable than people imagine.
VINCENT CASSEL French people are never happy with what they have. They're always complaining. They're happy...
VINCENT CASSEL I work everywhere. If there is a nice adventure in South Korea, for example, why not? Russia, Brazil...
VINCENT CASSEL The idea of telling a story in reverse destabilises your ordinary moral reactions. That's one of...
VINCENT CASSEL I grew up watching 'Raging Bull.'
VINCENT CASSEL I have learned that acting is not about beauty.
VINCENT CASSEL What I think I'm perceived as in France is, like, I'm this leading man always doing strange ...
VINCENT CASSEL I guess I look strange a bit. Strange but confident. I'm not like a model or anything. I always ...
VINCENT CASSEL I was much more interested by clothes when I was younger. I'm about being discreet. What they ca...
VINCENT CASSEL I spent a lot of time in boarding school. This is something I will never do to my kids. I think if y...
VINCENT CASSEL People pretend to be nice; people pretend to be smooth and polite and everything, but this is only a...
VINCENT CASSEL I'm more attracted to the bad guys. Why? Because in real life, I don't know any good guys. I...
VINCENT CASSEL I always had the sense of being in the spotlight, being on stage, being looked at.
VINCENT CASSEL I'm an actor, that's what I do every day. Dressing up is part of my job. But whatever you we...
VINCENT CASSEL When you appear on the screen, often enough you become sexy, even if you look like an elephant.
VINCENT CASSEL The minute I started being recognised, I became much more discreet.
VINCENT CASSEL The minute your parents die, you stop fighting them. I realized the more I changed my face for films...
VINCENT CASSEL People ask me where I live most of the time, and it's kind of complicated for me to answer, beca...
VINCENT CASSEL