Norman Vincent Peale Quotes

Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.

I won't allow myself to have tremendous fear.

I don't operate on fear, and I don't let fear control me.

Negative minds full of fear and doubt produce negative lives, which can ultimately destroy your life.

I have a little mantra: 'My fear grows fat on the energy I feed it. And if it grows very big, it probably happens.'

Sometimes if you want to achieve something great, there will be curveballs. You just have to dodge them every once in a while.

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.

In taking stock of ourselves, we should not forget that fear plays a large part in the drama of failure. That is the first thing to be dropped. Fear is a mental deficiency susceptible of correction, if taken in hand before it gains an ascendency over us. Fear comes with the thought of failure.

You're not human if you don't feel fear. But I've learnt to treat fear as an emotion that sharpens me. It's there to give me that edge for what I have to do.

A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.

You know, it's just a matter of working through the pitfalls sometimes and working through the challenges that lie ahead.

When we are afraid we ought not to occupy ourselves with endeavoring to prove that there is no danger, but in strengthening ourselves to go on in spite of the danger.

Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.

You have to let fear go. Another lesson is you just have to believe in yourself; you just have to. There's no way around it. No matter how things are stacked against you, you just have to every time.

Defeating fear is not a light switch. For most of us, it's daily work.

Keep a meter on your fear. Fear can cripple you.

It's been a very strong force for me over the years. I don't know exactly why. For some people, fear can be a very useful thing. They can use it to recognise there's something missing, and heal themselves. But fear can also destroy some people. I think I'm the first type of person. I'm pretty anxious, always thinking 'what if?' about the bad stuff.

That's been the story of my life - obstacles: trying to figure a way over them, around them, under them; sometimes you have to go straight through them.

We'll tell fear it can come along with us in our minivan, okay? But we'll just tell fear it can't drive. Sometimes we'll tell it to not even talk. Like when we tell our kids, 'Enough. No words.' We're going to play the quiet game with fear. Fear is not the boss of us.

If I do feel scared I deliberately challenge myself not to feel scared.

Life's about dealing with adversity and solving problems.

When you can look at failure and say, 'What is the worst case scenario,' it's not as bad as it seems.

When you will, make a resolution, set your jaw, you are expressing an imaginative fear that you won't do the thing. If you knew you would do the thing, you would smile happily and set about it. And this fear (since the imagination is always creative) comes about presently and you slide down into the complete slump of several weeks or years - the very thing you dreaded and set your jaw against.

Real optimism knows the difficulties but believes they can be overcome.

Obstacles are Opportunities in disguise.