The Amazing Results of Positive Thinking Quotes

“Try, really try. Think, really think. Believe, really believe.”
― Norman Vincent Peale, The Amazing Results of Positive Thinking

“It’s a strange principle but it’s true, nevertheless, that those who give the most have the most of whatever they give.”
― Norman Vincent Peale, The Amazing Results of Positive Thinking

“Start looking for joy and you’ll find it.”
― Norman Vincent Peale, The Amazing Results of Positive Thinking

“The hammer shatters glass but forges steel.”
― Norman Vincent Peale, The Amazing Results of Positive Thinking

“If you face life with the sincere faith that through the aid of the Almighty you can overcome your troubles, then you will keep defeat at arm’s length. And this applies in all the circumstances life can bring.”
― Norman Vincent Peale, The Amazing Results of Positive Thinking

“Be pleasant until ten o’clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.”
― Norman Vincent Peale, The Amazing Results of Positive Thinking

“And if the criticized person takes it quietly without rancor, not striking back but constantly loving, he will gather in friends faster than his critics can manufacture enemies.”
― Norman Vincent Peale, The Amazing Results of Positive Thinking

“People who are able to turn criticism into a positive situation are going to attract friends.”
― Norman Vincent Peale, The Amazing Results of Positive Thinking

“No man is happy who does not think himself so.”
― Norman Vincent Peale, The Amazing Results of Positive Thinking

“Knowing how to help people is an art and the person who knows how to do it can always know that he will have the lasting affection of many.”
― Norman Vincent Peale, The Amazing Results of Positive Thinking

“Grasp a difficulty by the “blade” and it cuts; grasp it by the “handle” and you can use it constructively.”
― Norman Vincent Peale, The Amazing Results of Positive Thinking

“Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle,”
― Norman Vincent Peale, The Amazing Results of Positive Thinking

“Positive thinking is looking at events with the knowledge that there will be both good and bad in life, but that it is better to emphasize the good. And as you do that, good seems to increase.”
― Norman Vincent Peale, The Amazing Results of Positive Thinking

“Although the life-changing power of positive thinking is available to all, some people experience difficulty in making it work. This is because of some strange psychological barrier that stands between them and the full use of positive thinking? One that keeps cropping up, is simply that they do not want it to work. They do not want to succeed. Actually, they are afraid to succeed. It’s easier to wallow in self-pity. So, we create our own failure, and when a suggestion ( such as positive thinking) comes along that will help overcome that failure, we subconsciously see to it that the suggestion doesn’t work, and so we”
― Norman Vincent Peale, The Amazing Results of Positive Thinking

“Positive thinking looks upon weak places in people as challenging opportunities. You can turn them into your strongest points.”
― Norman Vincent Peale, The Amazing Results of Positive Thinking

“Positive thinking looks upon weak places in people as challenging opportunities.”
― Norman Vincent Peale, The Amazing Results of Positive Thinking

“There was Glenn Cunningham, whose legs were so badly burned as a child that he was told he would not walk again. But he became one of the fastest Olympic milers in history. Glenn Cunningham told me that faith and positive thinking are 85 per cent of an athlete’s success;”
― Norman Vincent Peale, The Amazing Results of Positive Thinking

“as Confucius says, “Settle one difficulty and you keep a hundred away.”
― Norman Vincent Peale, The Amazing Results of Positive Thinking

“Lord: “I believe You have a plan for my life, so there must be some purpose in my getting fired. Instead of railing against my fate, I humbly ask You to show me the purpose in what has happened.” Once he began to believe there had been a reason and some meaning behind what had happened to him, it was easier to rid himself of resentment against his former employers. And once that happened he was “employable” again.”
― Norman Vincent Peale, The Amazing Results of Positive Thinking

“Lord: “I believe You have a plan for my life, so there must be some purpose in my getting fired. Instead of railing against my fate, I humbly ask You to show me the purpose in what has happened.” Once he began to believe there had been a reason and some meaning behind what had happened to him, it was easier to rid himself of resentment against his former employers.”
― Norman Vincent Peale, The Amazing Results of Positive Thinking

“It is a fact that negative thought will attract negative thought, and positive thought will attract positive thought.”
― Norman Vincent Peale, The Amazing Results of Positive Thinking

“Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you.”
― Norman Vincent Peale, The Amazing Results of Positive Thinking

“They are not easily irritated or annoyed. Some people seem to be able to rise above their irritations and they are fun to be with because they are poised and even-tempered. They seem to live on an upper level emotionally and are not easily riled up. They keep in a good humor and spirit.”
― Norman Vincent Peale, The Amazing Results of Positive Thinking