Norman Vincent Peale Quotes

Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

Our state of mind plays a major role in our day-to-day experiences as well as our physical and mental well-being. If a person has a calm and stable mind, this influences his or her attitude and behavior in relation to others. In other words, if someone remains in a peaceful and tranquil state of mind, external surroundings can cause them only a limited disturbance.

Talk peaceful to be peaceful.

In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.

You can't really control what people think. You can't really worry about what they think, and attitude is really the one to have.

We sometimes think of being good at mathematics as an innate ability. You either have "it" or you don't. But to Schoenfeld, it's not so much ability as attitude. You master mathematics if you are willing to try.

Remember to preserve a calm soul amid difficulties.

There are two ways to face the future. One way is with apprehension; the other is with anticipation

World peace begins with inner peace.

Serenity of spirit and turbulence of action should make up the sum of a man's life.

We become what we think about.

The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is ten percent what happens to me and ninety percent of how I react to it. And so it is with you. we are in charge of our attitudes.

A peaceful mind generates power.

True compassion does not come from wanting to help out those less fortunate than ourselves but from realizing our kinship with all beings.

By a tranquil mind I mean nothing else than a mind well ordered.

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

Take time as it comes, the wind as it blows, woman as she is.

It is not your aptitude, but your attitude, that determines your altitude.

Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, "I'm going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes, that's tough. I am going to snow anyway."

Some people procrastinate so much that all they can do is run around like firefighters all day - putting out fires that should not have gotten started in the first place.

As regards the quietude of the sage, he is not quiet because quietness is said to be good. He is quiet because the multitude of things cannot disturb his quietude. When water is still, one's beard and eyelashes are reflected in it. A skilled carpenter uses it in a level to obtain a measurement. If still water is so clear, how much more are the mental faculties! The mind of the sage is the mirror of heaven and earth in which all things are reflected.

You must feel love within, before you can share it.

The study of history is the best medicine for a sick mind; for in history you have a record of the infinite variety of human experience plainly set out for all to see; and in that record you can find yourself and your country both examples and warnings; fine things to take as models, base things rotten through and through, to avoid.

The world belongs to the Enthusiast who keeps cool.

You are all stardust.