Norman Vincent Peale

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.

The greatest secret for eliminating the inferiority complex, which is another term for deep and profound self-doubt, is to fill your mind to overflowing with faith. Develop a tremendous faith in God and that will give you a humble yet soundly realistic faith in yourself.

The secret is to fill your mind with thoughts of faith, confidence, and security.

Every person, if he is to have mental health and live successfully, must move away from past failures and mistakes and go forward without letting them be a weight upon him. The art of forgetting is absolutely necessary.

Grasp a difficulty by the “blade” and it cuts; grasp it by the “handle” and you can use it constructively.

Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow

A man who is self-reliant, positive, optimistic, and undertakes his work with the assurance of success magnetizes his condition. He draws to himself the creative powers of the universe.

Winston Churchill expresses it well. He says, “Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. It’s courage that counts.

According to your faith be it unto you” (Matthew 9:29).

It's always too early to quit

Prayerize, visualize, actualize — that is the formula for successful imaging.

Don't duck the most difficult problems. That just ensures that the hardest part will be left when you are most tired. Get the big one done - it's downhill from then on.

Let us try to fill this room with the healing grace of the greatest of all physicians, Jesus Christ.

Deep within the individual is a vast reservoir of untapped power awaiting to be used. no person can have the use of all this potential until he learns to know his or her own self. the trouble with many people is that they got through life thinking and writing themselves off as ordinary commonplace persons. having no proper belief in themselves they live aimless and erratic lives largely because they never realize what their lives really can be or what they can become

"Norman Vincent Peale "A peaceful mind generates power." from his book The Powers of Positive Thinking."