Norman Vincent Peale Quotes

I'm a huge believer in visualizing achieving the task before it happens.

Positive thoughts - get where you need to go by thinking you're going to get there.

Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture... Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.

I always won in my imagination. I always hit the game-winning shot, or I hit the free throw. Or if I missed, there was a lane violation, and I was given another one.

In order to win, you must expect to win.

If you start with the premise that whatever you want to be is going to happen, it changes the way you think about it.

I believe that thinking positively and envisioning the best possible outcome can add to your achievements.

The use of mental imagery is one of the strongest and most effective strategies for making something happen for you.

I believed in myself and I am a firm believer you have to think the things you want and visualize.

You've got to believe you can get a result from the game.

Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.

One of the things I say to people is: Imagine if we succeeded.

I've just always believed you can get anything you want in this life - anything you want.

Within months after reading the novel 'The Hunger Games,' I went from telling my mom that I could see myself as this character to actually getting the role. My mother reminds me that if I could manifest such an important role just because I wanted it so much, all of my dreams are possible.

'Mamma Mia' and 'Dallas' have proved to me that the things you dream about can happen. I don't ask myself, 'How did I get here?' but instead, 'I deserve to be here. I was right to think this would happen.' I'm a firm believer in the power we have in our minds to want something and pursue it in a sane and focused way.

Our thoughts really do create our lives. They've done a lot of research showing if you're an optimistic, positive person you will be a healthier person than if you're a sad, depressed, negative person.

What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

If you want to reach a goal, you must 'see the reaching' in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.

I'm a very driven, ambitious, positive person. But I'm a spiritual person as well. I believe in creative visualization. So for me to go to America - which I find such a positive place - well, I took to it like a duck to water.

I don't think anything is unrealistic if you believe you can do it.

What the human mind can conceive and believe it can accomplish.

I find it amazingly easy to take something, if you really believe in it, and turn it to reality.

Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.

Whatever your situation might be, set your mind to whatever you want to do and put a good attitude in it, and I believe that you can succeed. You are not going to get anywhere just sitting on your butt and moping around.

Winners, I am convinced, imagine their dreams first. They want it with all their heart and expect it to come true. There is, I believe, no other way to live.