Norman Vincent Peale Quotes

Avoid destructive thinking. Improper negative thoughts sink people. A ship can sail on water all around the world many, many times, but just let enough water get into the ship and it will sink. Just so with the human mind. Let enough negative thoughts or improper thoughts get into the human mind and the person sinks just like a ship.

Do not allow negative thoughts to enter your mind for they are the weeds that strange confidence.

I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.

I think I, like a lot of people, have that type of brain where I find it interesting or fulfilling to worry about something.

I say there're no depressed words just depressed minds.

I say myself no depressed words just depressed minds.

Anxiety is your creativity turned into a weapon that you use to beat yourself up. And this is because anxiety is mostly storytelling - repeating poisonous stories that you've inherited from others. It feeds on your fear.

If you don't have very strong emotions or very intense thoughts about something, you cannot get depressed.

I would say I'm too guilty of dwelling on things too long.

Can you suppose there's any harm in looking as cheerful and being as cheerful as our poor circumstances will permit?

If you think all the time every day of your life, you might as well kill yourself today and be happier tomorrow.

For many, negative thinking is a habit, which over time, becomes an addiction... A lot of people suffer from this disease because negative thinking is addictive to each of the Big Three - the mind, the body, and the emotions. If one doesn't get you, the others are waiting in the wings.

If your mental attitude is positive, even when threats abound, you won’t lose your inner peace. On the other hand, if your mind is negative, marked by fear, suspicion and feelings of helplessness, even among your best friends, in a pleasant atmosphere and comfortable surroundings, you won’t be happy.

Do not worry at all about negative thoughts, and do not try to control them. All you have to do is begin to think good thoughts each day. Plant as many good thoughts as you can in each day. As you begin to think good thoughts you will attract more and more good thoughts, and eventually the good thoughts will wipe out the negative thoughts altogether.

An unattended mind is the breeding ground of self-defeat.

Both hurting and happiness make me feel more alive, but as I get older it seems that hurting's the low hanging fruit. So I pick it.

Evil thought is a dangerous pet. It is safer to play with it from behind the iron bars of circumstance.

Worries find you easily enough without inviting them.

If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick.

I've never responded well to entrenched negative thinking.

You must not allow yourself to dwell for a single moment on any kind of negative thought.

We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It's a death trap.

The worst bullies you will ever encounter in your life are your own thoughts.

The truth is that there is no actual stress or anxiety in the world; it's your thoughts that create these false beliefs. You can't package stress, touch it, or see it. There are only people engaged in stressful thinking.

I don't think anyone's found a way of eliminating thoughts of danger and loss. It's rather that, when they're unrealistic, you become an acrobat at marshaling evidence against them.