Norman Vincent Peale Quotes

What we sometimes consider a stumbling block is rather a rock we can step on.

It's core to my beliefs now: Sometimes in being given a challenge, you're actually being given a real opportunity, and a lot of that is how you handle it. Do you feel sorry for yourself or do you think, All right! I'll see what I can make out of this? I've had that over and over. If I hang out in the disappointment, I'll just be disappointed all the time.

The right attitude can transform a barrier into a blessing, an obstacle into an opportunity or a stumbling block into a stepping stone.

The bigger your obstacle, the bigger your future. Don't get discouraged, keep moving forward.

Adversity often produces an unexpected opportunity. Look for it ! Appreciate and utilize it! This is difficult to do if you're feeling sorry for yourself because you're faced with adversity.

My greatest talent is calmness and being positive. I concentrate on what you can do even in the worst of times. You don't judge by last week's errors or lost opportunity.

The individual who knows the score about life sees difficulties as opportunities

The persistent winner is not discouraged by a problem - he is challenged by it.

To this day, even when I hear about problems, as you've probably noticed, I tend to call them challenges. I don't dwell on them, and I immediately focus on how I can convert the challenge into an opportunity.

Learning to expect problems saved me from a lot of wasted energy. Winners see problems as just another way to prove themselves.

I'm never at my worst because even at my lowest, its a learning experience. It's something that I'll bounce ideas off. I can take negatives and flip them to positives at all times.

The best way to treat obstacles is to use them as stepping-stones. Laugh at them, tread on them, and let them lead you to something better.

It is important to live each day with a positive perspective. It is not wise to pretend problems do not exist, but it is wise to look beyond the problem to the possibilities that are in it. When Goliath came against the Israelites, the soldiers all thought, "He's so big, we can never kill him." But David looked at the same giant and thought, "He's so big, I can't miss him.

Every challenge is nothing more than a chance to make things better.

My entire life, I have viewed every problem as an opportunity - I've had no choice.

Constrained circumstances can bring the best out of you.

You have to look to the future with optimism instead of negative ideas. Take the good and the bad and face it head on.

In my life, I don't have roadblocks and obstacles. I might have something you would call a 'challenge.' I throw that out the window, and I call that a wonderful opportunity.

Great leaders know that adversity produces the greatest opportunities in life.

We all have challenges. You can let them be obstacles or roadblocks, or you can use them.

In life, you're going to have things that are going to come up against you. You can either let it get to you, or you can make something happen.

Focus on opportunities, not problems.

With every obstacle that has happened to me in my life, my brain immediately says, ‘Where is the hidden blessing?’ In starting a business and growing a business, every day is learning how to manage obstacles.

If you will make a deliberate decision to develop a positive attitude toward opportunities and obstacles, you are on your way toward having what is the most important quality in education: the power of positive thinking.

Even challenges are beautiful opportunities in disguise.