Norman Vincent Peale Quotes

You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.

I believe the single most significant decision I can make on a day-to-day basis is my choice of attitude... When my attitudes are right theres no challenge too great for me.

Determination, with an optimistic attitude is the key to success.

Realize that there are not hopeless situations; there are only people who take hopeless attitudes.

Mental strength is really important because you either win or lose in your mind.

I've learned that to survive, you need a positive state of mind.

I don't put much pressure on myself, because I'm strong mentally.

I think every player hits a little bit of doubt. But if you are strong, you are supposed to be strong mentally because that's our job and you know what you can do. So you are like, 'A'ight cool, I'ma be all right. I'm going to figure this out.'

To stay positive, you have to be very strong mentally.

Your reaction to a situation determines whether it will be positive or negative. If you're determined to label a situation positive, no matter how it appears, the result MUST be positive. If you label something negative, that MUST be your experience. It's never too late to change a situation because you have an unlimited supply of positive sticky labels! Your life is always your call!

Above all, you must maintain a positive mental attitude, looking for the good in every situation, and remain determined to be a completely positive person.

If your own mental attitude is correct, even if you remain in a hostile atmosphere, you feel happy.

I have yet to meet someone who was successful who was even slightly negative. That comes from a muscle training. You can work on negativity and weed it out of your life. I've noticed that all of the people who acted as if they were going to be gone too soon, were gone too soon.

Set your mind that no matter what is going on in your life, you will have a good attitude.

Being optimistic is like a muscle that gets stronger with use. Makes it easier when the tough times arrive. You have to change the way you think in order to change the way you feel.

Attitude is the first quality that marks the successful man. If he has a positive attitude and is a positive thinker, who likes challenges and difficult situations, then he has half his success achieved.

Your determination to become a more optimistic person in every part of your life will do more to ensure your success and happiness than any other single quality you can develop.

Successful people don't have any fewer problems than unsuccessful people; they just have a different mindset in dealing with them.

Being negative only makes a difficult journey more difficult. You may be given a cactus, but you don't have to sit on it.

Defeat is a state of mind; no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.

It's about staying ahead of what happened yesterday. When you just in your mind think...nothing's going to stop me. I don't care how I felt yesterday. I'm gonna go out today and do what I know I can do. If you can just tell yourself...no I'm stronger than this, no I'm better than this, no I'm faster than this, no I'm tougher than this. I think you can make it through situations that your never thought possible.

Will is what can make you succeed when your thoughts tell you that you're defeated.

Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end you are sure to succeed.

A positive mental attitude is the right mental attitude.

No one is ready for a thing until he believes he can acquire it. The state of mind must be BELIEF, not mere hope or wish.