About Norman Vincent Peale

American minister and author of The Power of Positive Thinking. (1898-1993)

See all 10 Norman Vincent Peale quotes

More from Norman Vincent Peale

• Believe that problems do have answers. Believe that they can be overcome. Believe that they can be handled. And finally, believe that you can solve them.You Can If You Think You Can (1987)
• People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.Positive Thinking Every Day (1993)
• Happiness will never come if it's a goal in itself; happiness is a by-product of a commitment to worthy causes.The Power of Positive Living (1992)
• When obstacles or difficulties arise, the positive thinker takes them as creative opportunities.Have a Great Day (1986)
• Empty pockets never held anyone back... it's only empty heads and empty hearts that do it.Enthusiasm Makes the Difference
• Never compare yourself or your achievements with others, but make your comparisons only with yourself.Stay Alive All Your Life (1957)

More quotes on happiness

• The purpose of life... is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.Eleanor Roosevelt
• For myself I am an optimist, it does not seem to be much use being anything else.Winston Churchill
• I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person now that I was free. There was such a glory over everything.Harriet Tubman
• The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen nor even touched but just felt in the heart.Helen Keller
• A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.Helen Keller
• When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.Helen Keller

All happiness quotes