Norman Vincent Peale Quotes

You're going to have highs and lows, but it's how you get through the lows.

The person who can dominate during rough times is the person who can dominate, period.

Everyone experiences tough times, it is a measure of your determination and dedication how you deal with them and how you can come through them.

Life has a way of breaking even the strongest among us.

When you think life is tough, it can get a lot tougher.

My comfort wasn't the most important thing - my getting through to the other side of difficult feelings was. However long it might seem to take, and however unfair it might seem, it was my job to do it.

You can't avoid pain, but you can choose to overcome it.

It's interesting to see people overcome things. Because if you didn't overcome, you wouldn't be writing it.

Oh dear, life is pretty tough sometimes, isn't it?

You've only mastered the storm you can sleep through.

Life is a series of relapses and recoveries.

You must remember that no one lives a life free from pain and suffering.

When life is at that extremely hard time, all we can control is our attitude.

Life itself is always a trial. In training, you must test and polish yourself in order to face the great challenges of life.

Hard times build determination and inner strength. Through them we can also come to appreciate the uselessness of anger.

Life has this in common with prizefighting: if you've received a belly blow, it's likely to be followed by a right to the jaw.

None of us can be free of conflict and woe. Even the greatest men have had to accept disappointments as their daily bread. ... The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.

Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.

Dark clouds may hang on me sometimes, but I'll work it out.

Everyone is going to face challenges. What defines you is how you overcome those.

I do whatever pushes me hardest. It's coming at me and I try to... it's like uninvited guest and I have to wrestle them out the door or through the window - get them out and get over with them quickly.

What really counts in life is the quiet meeting of every difficulty with the determination to get out of it all the good there is.

The trials and pressures of life--and how we face them--often define us. Confronted by adversity, many people give up while others rise up. How do those who succeed do it? They persevere. They find the benefit to them personally that comes from any trial. And they recognize that the best thing about adversity is coming out on the other side of it. There is a sweetness to overcoming your troubles and finding something good in the process, however small it may be. Giving up when adversity threatens can make a person bitter. Persevering through adversity makes one better.

To be emotionally resilient and to overcome your circumstances, not through fighting, but through being courageous and having endurance was something I thought was of primary importance.

Life will knock us down, but we can choose whether or not to stand back up.