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Norman Vincent Peale was an American author, minister, and lecturer renowned for his contributions to the field of positive thinking. His most notable work, 'The Power of Positive Thinking', has sold over 20 million copies and has been translated into more than 20 languages. Peale's teachings have had a profound impact on people worldwide, making him a key figure in the self-help genre.

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“We live in the midst of the greatest scientific civilization in the history of the world. But the greatest wisdom walking our streets is not in any laboratory scientist, but the wisdom of Jesus Christ.”

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Author:Norman Vincent Peale

“The positive thinker, on the contrary, constantly sends out positive thoughts, together with vital mental images of hope, optimism and creativity. He therefore activates the world around him positively and strongly tends to draw back to himself positive results. This, too, is a basic law of mind action.”

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Book:The Positive Principle Today

Source: The Positive Principle Today

“... not mere achievement, but rather the more difficult feat of handling your life efficiently. It means to be a success as a person; controlled, organized, not part of the world's problems, but part of its cure. ... of being creative individuals.”

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Book:The amazing results of positive thinking

Source: The amazing results of positive thinking

“If you expect the best, you will be the best. Learn to use one of the most powerful laws in this world; change your mental habits to belief instead of disbelief. Learn to expect, not to doubt. In so doing, you bring everything into the realm of possibility.”

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Author:Norman Vincent Peale

“There are two primary forces in this world, fear and faith. Fear can move you to destructiveness or sickness or failure. Only in rare instances will it motivate you to accomplishment. But faith is a greater force. Faith can drive itself into your consciousness and set you free from fear forever.”

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Author:Norman Vincent Peale

“Before you go to sleep, run over your personal world mentally and thank God for everyone and everything.”

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Book:Have a Great Day: Daily Affirmations for Positive Living

Source: Have a Great Day: Daily Affirmations for Positive Living

“Almighty God freely bestows the good things in this world in proportion to a person's mental readiness to receive.”

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Book:Have a Great Day: Daily Affirmations for Positive Living

Source: Have a Great Day: Daily Affirmations for Positive Living

“Jesus made it clear that the most important thing in the world is our relationship to God and to others. When we achieve that, everything good will follow.”

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Book:Norman Vincent Peale: Words That Inspired Him

Source: Norman Vincent Peale: Words That Inspired Him

“I change my thoughts, I change my world.”

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Author:Norman Vincent Peale

“Religion does not blithely promise some sort of no-trouble, no-problem, no-poverty world; but rather a spirit, a power, an enthusiasm that endows everyone with the ability to overcome any and all of it.”

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Author:Norman Vincent Peale

“Many people conceive of religion as something apart from everyday affairs of the world. They think of it in terms of ceremony or ritual or sermons and often it strikes them as being dull or not particularly interesting. Religion may be described in many ways. I like to think of it as a medicine, a healing medicine for the mind.”

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Book:Faith is the Answer: A Pastor and a Psychiatrist Discuss Your Problems

Source: Faith is the Answer: A Pastor and a Psychiatrist Discuss Your Problems

“The world in which you live is not primarily determined by outward conditions and circumstances but by the thoughts that habitually occupy your mind.”

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Book:The Power of Positive Thinking: 10 Traits for Maximum Results

Source: The Power of Positive Thinking: 10 Traits for Maximum Results

“Nothing during the year is so impressively convincing as the vision Christmas brings of what this world would be if love became the daily practice of human beings.”

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Author:Norman Vincent Peale

“Never think negatively, for the negative thinker does a very dangerous thing. He pumps out negative thoughts into the world around him and thus activates the world negatively.”

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Book:The Positive Principle Today

Source: The Positive Principle Today

“We reach the goal not by the stairs, but by the lift..... God pledges his promised righteousness to those who will stop trying to save themselves. Change your thoughts and you change your world.”

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Author:Norman Vincent Peale

“Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun. Change your thoughts and you change your world.”

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Author:Norman Vincent Peale

“Change your thoughts and you change your world.”

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Book:Norman Vincent Peale's treasury of courage and confidence

Source: Norman Vincent Peale's treasury of courage and confidence

“Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.”

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Author:Norman Vincent Peale

“Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.”

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Author:Norman Vincent Peale

“Those who are fired with an enthusiastic idea and who allow it to take hold and dominate their thoughts find that new worlds open for them. As long as enthusiasm holds out, so will new opportunities.”

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Book:Enthusiasm Makes the Difference

Source: Enthusiasm Makes the Difference

“I truly believe that if we keep telling the Christmas story, singing the Christmas songs, and living the Christmas spirit, we can bring joy and happiness and peace to this world.”

Source: Norman Vincent Peale: Words That Inspired Him

“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.”

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Author:Norman Vincent Peale

“The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results.”

Source: Have a Great Day: Daily Affirmations for Positive Living

“There is nothing in life so difficult that it cannot be overcome. This faith can move mountains. It can change people. It can change the world. You can survive all the great storms in your life”

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Author:Norman Vincent Peale

About the Author

Born: May 31, 1898
Died: December 24, 1993
Known for: Author
Quotes: 457

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