Quotes about Optimism
Whenever a negative thought concerning your personal powers comes to mind, deliberately voice a positive thought to cancel it out.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Love Your Life And The LIfe Will Love You Back
- Norman Vincent Peale
Every day flush lack thoughts out of your mind and refill with dynamic thoughts of abundance. Expect generous benefits in never failing supply.
- Norman Vincent Peale
I do not worry too much; if I do my best, I believe that what happens, happens for the best.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Let the skeptics have their doubts. I prefer to believe that ideas do have wings!
- Norman Vincent Peale
Afterward, I remember, General Roosevelt said to me, "Now, you see, if you think you can, or somebody who believes in you thinks you can, why, then you can!
- Norman Vincent Peale
Can you help me?" "Well," I said, "perhaps I can help you help yourself.
- Norman Vincent Peale
It is a pity," he wrote, "that people should let themselves be defeated by the problems, cares, and difficulties of human existence, and it is quite unnecessary.
- Norman Vincent Peale
It is a fact that negative thought will attract negative thought, and positive thought will attract positive thought.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Attitudes are more important than facts." That is worth repeating until its truth grips you. Any fact facing us, however difficult, even seemingly hopeless, is not so important as our attitude toward that fact. How you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You may permit a fact to overwhelm you mentally before you start to deal with it actually. On the other hand, a confident and optimistic thought pattern can modify or overcome the fact altogether.
- Norman Vincent Peale
So if you feel that you are defeated and have lost confidence in your ability to win, sit down, take a piece of paper and make a list, not of the factors that are against you, but of those that are for you.
- Norman Vincent Peale
The secret is to fill your mind with thoughts of faith, confidence, and security.
- Norman Vincent Peale