Zitate von Norman Vincent Peale

„Aus der Pflege glücklicher Gedanken und Gewohnheiten entsteht auch ein glückhaftes Leben.“

—  Norman Vincent Peale

Die Kraft positiven Denkens

„Es gibt eine Grundeigenschaft, mit der wir uns die Zuneigung unserer Mitmenschen erwerben können: aufrichtiges Interesse und Liebe für die andern. Wenn wir diese Eigenschaften entwickeln, ergeben sich die andern fast von selbst.“

—  Norman Vincent Peale

Die Kraft positiven Denkens

„Der Mensch ist zu weit größeren Leistungen fähig, als er sich je bewusst geworden ist.“

—  Norman Vincent Peale

Die Kraft positiven Denkens

„Wir müssen immer zwei Arten von Kritik unterscheiden: die wohlwollende, aufbauende, taktvolle und die schroffe, ätzende, gehässige.“

—  Norman Vincent Peale

Die Kraft positiven Denkens

„Hass blockiert jede Energie und Tatkraft, solange er nicht durch ein offenes oder freundliches Gefühl ersetzt wird.“

—  Norman Vincent Peale

Die Kraft positiven Denkens

„Lassen Sie die Idee fallen, Sie wären Atlas, der die Welt auf den Schultern trägt. Die Welt dreht sich auch ohne Sie. Nehmen Sie sich selbst nicht so ernst.“

—  Norman Vincent Peale

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„Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.“

—  Norman Vincent Peale

„What the mind can conceive and believe, and the heart desire, you can achieve.“

—  Norman Vincent Peale

„Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.“

—  Norman Vincent Peale

„The way to happiness: Keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Scatter sunshine, forget self, think of others. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.“

—  Norman Vincent Peale, buch The Power of Positive Thinking

Quelle: The Power of Positive Thinking

„Every individual forms his own estimate of himself and that basic estimate goes far toward determining what he becomes.“

—  Norman Vincent Peale

Stay Alive All Your Life (1957), Epigram, Ch. 1 : The Magnificent Power of Belief http://www.ebookwise.com/ebooks/b55844/Stay-Alive-All-Your-Life/Dr-Norman-Vincent-Peale/?si=43
Stay Alive All Your Life (1957)
Kontext: Every individual forms his own estimate of himself and that basic estimate goes far toward determining what he becomes. You can do no more than you believe you can. You can be no more than you believe you are. Belief stimulates power within yourself. Have faith in faith. Don't be afraid to trust faith.

„Believe and create is a basic fact of successful living.“

—  Norman Vincent Peale

Stay Alive All Your Life (1957)
Kontext: By success, of course, I do not mean that you may become rich, famous, or powerful for that does not, of necessity, represent achievement. Indeed, not infrequently, such individuals represent pathetic failure as persons. By success I mean the development of mature and constructive personality.
Through the application of the principle of constructive thinking you can attain your worthy goals. The natural outcome of living by creative principles is creative results. Believe and create is a basic fact of successful living.

„God is vitality. God is life. God is energy.“

—  Norman Vincent Peale

"No More Stress or Tension" in Plus : The Magazine of Positive Thinking (May 1986), p. 22
Kontext: Who is God? Some theological being? He is so much greater than theology. God is vitality. God is life. God is energy. As you breathe God in, as you visualize His energy, you will be reenergized!

„Just a moment ago nature put on one of its most spectacular demonstrations.“

—  Norman Vincent Peale

Power Of The Plus Factor (1987)
Kontext: Just a moment ago nature put on one of its most spectacular demonstrations. The widest rainbow I have ever seen stretched from the lake over a high snow-clad mountain to touch down in a deep valley in the Alps. There was about this gigantic rainbow a deep benediction of peace and hope. But as ineffable as nature is in the effect of natural beauty on the mind, it cannot match the peace of God in its healing effect on the human mind. <!-- p. 180

„By success, of course, I do not mean that you may become rich, famous, or powerful for that does not, of necessity, represent achievement. Indeed, not infrequently, such individuals represent pathetic failure as persons.“

—  Norman Vincent Peale

Stay Alive All Your Life (1957)
Kontext: By success, of course, I do not mean that you may become rich, famous, or powerful for that does not, of necessity, represent achievement. Indeed, not infrequently, such individuals represent pathetic failure as persons. By success I mean the development of mature and constructive personality.
Through the application of the principle of constructive thinking you can attain your worthy goals. The natural outcome of living by creative principles is creative results. Believe and create is a basic fact of successful living.

„Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.“

—  Norman Vincent Peale

„Change your thoughts and you can change the world.“

—  Norman Vincent Peale

As quoted in Back on Track : How to Straighten Out Your Life When It Throws You a Curve (1997) by Deborah Norville, p. 201
Variante: Change your thoughts and you change your world.

„The trouble with most of us is that we'd rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.“

—  Norman Vincent Peale, buch The Power of Positive Thinking

Variante: The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism
Quelle: The Power of Positive Thinking

„It's always to soon to quit!“

—  Norman Vincent Peale