Norman Vincent Peale Quotes

There is scarcely an instant that passes over our heads that may not have its freight of infamy. How ought we to watch over our thoughts, that we may not so much as imagine any enormity!

Pierre was one of those people who are strong only when they feel themselves perfectly pure.

Do not be thoughtless, always be mindful, watch your thoughts! Draw yourself out of the path of evil, like an elephant sunk in mud.

Brimstone once told me that to stay true in the face of evil is a feat of strength.

When you believe yourself to be master of your thoughts, you become so.

It is very hard for evil to take hold of the unconsenting soul.

The way to avoid evil is not by maiming our passions, but by compelling them to yield their vigor to our moral nature.

Men of stainless character and self purification will easily inspire confidence and automatically purify the atmosphere around them.

You think that you can judge what's good or evil from whether you enjoy doing it or not. You think that evil is what always appears in the form of a temptation, while good is what you never spontaneously want to do. I think this is all total rubbish, if you don't mind my saying so.

Be the first to seek to bring good, do not grow accustomed to evil, but defeat it.

The forces that tend for evil are great and terrible, but the forces of truth and love and courage and honesty and generosity and sympathy are also stronger than ever before.

Self-control is solely a matter of thought-control!

If strength is measured by intelligence, honesty and depth of character, then yes, strong women are hot as hell.

It is because good is always stronger than evil. Always remember that, Antonio. The smallest bit of good can stand against all the powers of evil in the world and it will emerge triumphant.

Sometimes it seems to me that all of life is a struggle to contain the natural impulses of the body and spirit, and that what we call character represents only the degree to which we are successful in this endeavor.

Don't be intimidated by power, wealth or station, character alone makes all the difference.

I lack what the English call character, by which they mean the power to refrain.

Be famous. Be a big social experiment in getting what you don't want. Find value in what we've been taught is worthless. Find good in what the world says is evil. I'm giving you my life because I want the whole world to know you. I wish the whole world would embrace what it hates. Find what you're afraid of most and go live there.

We are the masters of our fate, the captains of our souls, because we have the power to control our thoughts.

In our day it's worse to judge evil than to do evil.

Conscience is the root of all true courage.

One cannot help the evil thoughts that come, but it is the thoughts we cultivate that make the difference between good or evil. We don't have to open the door to the devil and say, "Make yourself at home."

All men are evil and will declare themselves to be so when occasion is offered.

A private victory leads to a public victory and a corporate blessing, because God turns His face toward those who will demonstrate character when no one is looking.

Every evil to which we do not succumb is a benefactor.