Norman Vincent Peale Quotations | Page 4

What seems impossible one minute becomes, through faith, possible the next.

When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self - giving is a personal power - releasing factor.

Americans used to roar like lions for liberty; now we bleat like sheep for security.

A war fitness conference some time ago declared that the highest form of recreation is to go to church. The word recreation should be written re-creation. More real rest can be gained from an hour and a quarter of worship under these circumstances than by eighteen holes of golf.

Expect the best, not the worst, and you will attain your heart's desire.

Our problem is to become acquainted with our own selves, letting our personalities loose upon the world for the sheer adventure of their full development and in the positive hope that they may in their own way lift the level of humanity.

Prayer is more than words. It's listening, seeing and feeling.

People who are really efficient seem to do things easily, with a minimum of effort. In doing so they release maximum power.

Do not always ask when you pray, but instead affirm that God's blessings are being given, and spend most of your prayers giving thanks.

By success, of course, I do not mean that you may become rich, famous, or powerful for that does not, of necessity, represent achievement. Indeed, not infrequently, such individuals represent pathetic failure as persons.