Change your thoughts and you change your world.

—Norman Vincent Peale

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About Norman Vincent Peale

Portrait of Norman Vincent Peale

Norman Vincent Peale (May 31, 1898 – December 24, 1993) was an American Protestant clergyman, and an author best known for popularizing the concept of positive thinking, especially through his best-selling book The Power of Positive Thinking (1952). He served as the pastor of Marble Collegiate Church, New York, from...

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Think enthusiastically about everything; but especially about your job. If you do, you'll put a touch of glory in your life. If you love your job with enthusiasm, you'll shake it to pieces. You'll love it into greatness.

—Norman Vincent Peale

Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.

—Norman Vincent Peale

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.

—Norman Vincent Peale

Forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future. Give everyone a smile. Spend so much time improving yourself that you have no time left to criticize others. Be too big for worry and too noble for anger.

—Norman Vincent Peale

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It's always too early to quit.

—Norman Vincent Peale

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More quotations tagged with “thoughts”

Maybe if you thought about them, people never really disappeared. It sounded so corny, but there was a scientific explanation for it, too. If you believed that thoughts were energy and energy is matter and matter never disappears, then a person can never truly leave you unless you stop thinking about them. Everything you shared with a person is still there swirling around in the universe.

—Wendy Wunder in The Probability of Miracles

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A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.

—Mahatma Gandhi

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There are some that only employ words for the purpose of disguising their thoughts.

Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man, but they don't bite everybody.

—Stanislaw J. Lec

Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.

—Rene Descartes

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