Here are 34 favorite sayings from Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, author of The Power of Positive Thinking and founder of Guideposts.
May 31 was the 122nd anniversary of Norman Vincent Peale’s birth. Author, minister, and founder of Guideposts, Dr. Peale, is best known as the father of positive thinking. Here are 34 of our favorite sayings from Dr. Peale. His timeless message of how changing your thoughts can change your life still inspires us today. We hope this collection of some of his most stirring, uplifting quotes will help you live your best life.
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Love life and it will love you right back.
—Dr. Norman Vincent Peale
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How you think about a problem is more important than the problem itself, so always think positively.
Feel God’s presence within you, lifting you up, and filling your heart with the deep abiding assurance that all is well.
—Dr. Norman Vincent Peale
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Do your best and leave the results to God.
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Life is either a great experience, or a small one, dependent on the quality and character of the thoughts we think.
—Dr. Norman Vincent Peale
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Sing at least one song every day.
—Dr. Norman Vincent Peale
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If you change your thoughts you will change your life.
—Dr. Norman Vincent Peale
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Dare to be what your best self knows you ought to be; dare to be a bigger human being than you ever been.
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Go out of your way to talk optimisitically about everything.
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Don’t be satisified with a half life. God never said, “I’ll give you a half life, I’ll give you a desultory life.” He said, “I give you life!”
—Dr. Norman Vincent Peale
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Ask for what you want, but be willing to take what God gives you. It may be better than what you ask for.
—Dr. Norman Vincent Peale
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Live your life and forget your age.
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Get your mind so eager, so zestful, so filled with interests that you just cannot be tired.
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The best thing you have to give is yourself.
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A wish is an attitude of mind to which wings have been attached. You wish and you dream, and your whole nature focuses to bring your wishes and dreams to pass.
—Dr. Norman Vincent Peale
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Forget yourself. Think courage.
—Dr. Norman Vincent Peale
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I’ll tell you a secret: The way to handle the little things is to bring God into them, for nothing is so small that it is beneath His notice.
—Dr. Norman Vincent Peale
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Start and end every day, and in between times, too, by thanking God for everything.
—Dr. Norman Vincent Peale
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There is health-giving power in the universe. It flows into human beings when they open themselves to recieve it, and it stiumlates a new and wonderful life within them.
—Dr. Norman Vincent Peale
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Change your thoughts and you change the world.
—Dr. Norman Vincent Peale
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If you have zest and enthusiasm, you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind.
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We may live victoriously, not because we have any power within ourselves, but because when we give ourselves to God, He Gives himself to us.
—Dr. Norman Vincent Peale
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Drop the three Ls—lack, loss, limitation—from your vocabulary.
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To be successful is to be helpful, caring, constructive, to make everything and everyone touch you a little bit.
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Go at life with abandon; give it all you got. And life will give all it has to you.
—Dr. Norman Vincent Peale
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Jesus is the greatest teacher of happiness the world ever knew. Take Him into your heart, into your mind, and you will sing a song of joy always.
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Take God as your partner in every enterprise.
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What difference does chronological age make as long as your mind is alive, as long as you read, as long as you think, as long as you are part of it? If you really live, you are young, you are vital.
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Put your trust in God and just calmly go your way.
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If you live in constant communication with God you recieve of His power, His health, His well being, His zest, His energy.
—Dr. Norman Vincent Peale
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Always be on the lookout for the big idea that can change your life.
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Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven’t half the strength you think they have.