Norman Vincent Peale

Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously and never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop this picture!

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.

Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities – always see them, for they are always there.

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

I always did something I was a little not ready to do. I think that is how we grow.

I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.

In the marathon of life, success calls for dedication to the goal, perseverance, compassion for my fellow man, and faith in God.

You are what you think about all day long.

If you have to eat a frog, don’t look at it for too long.

The more people tell you it’s not possible, that it can’t be done, the more you should be absolutely determined to prove them wrong. Treat the word ‘impossible’ as nothing more than motivation.

To give away money is an easy matter, and in any man’s power. But to decide to whom to give it, and how large and when, and for what purpose and how, is neither in every man’s power, nor an easy matter. Hence it is that such excellence is rare, praiseworthy, and noble.

People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally being lived. They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.

Stumbling is not the same as falling.

When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there.

You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want.

A good tool improves the way you work. A great tool improves the way you think.

Motivation is the fuel necessary to keep the human engine running.

I need to be surrounded by people as passionate and as dedicated as I am.