Norman Vincent Peale Success Quotations

The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.

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

There are some things you can't learn from others. You have to pass through the fire.

Think, the successful idea is always in your mind. Think it out.

Listen to the magic word of motivation and you will hear it. Then the sky is the limit.

We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.

Plant seeds of expectation in your mind; cultivate thoughts that anticipate achievement. Believe in yourself as being capable of overcoming all obstacles and weaknesses.

Believe that problems do have answers, that they can be overcome, and that you can solve them.

The one person who most blocks you from a full, happy, and successful life is you.

All successful people have a goal. No one can get anywhere unless he knows where he wants to go and what he wants to be or do.

Today any successful and competent businessman will employ the latest and best-tested methods in production, distribution, and administration. Many are discovering that one of the greatest of all efficiency methods is prayer power.

Four things for success: work and pray, think and believe.

Have absolutely no sense of guilt about being happy and successful if you operate honestly and with a sense of social responsibility.

If I wanted to become a tramp, I would seek information and advice from the most successful tramp I could find. If I wanted to become a failure, I would seek advice from people who have never succeeded. If I wanted to succeed in all things, I would look around me for those who are succeeding, and do as they have done.

If you visualize a failure, you tend to create the conditions that produce failure. Visualize-believe-and thank God in advance.

Believe and create is a basic fact of successful living.

To be successful is to be helpful, caring and constructive, to make everything and everyone you touch a little bit better.

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities. Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy. But with self-confidence you can succeed. A sense of inferiority and inadequacy interferes with the attainment of your hopes, but self-confidence leads to self-realization and successful achievement.