Norman Vincent Peale Quotes

There are so many difficult things we're living through in the world today, so many horrible events, but we cannot let them stop us. No matter what happens, I feel you must move forward with optimism and not get totally sideswiped.

There's a lot of terrible things goin' on all the time, but you gotta try and have some fun in the end.

So I have people who tweet and ask me, 'You can't be this happy all the time. You can't be this cheerful.' Well, yes I am. From where I've come from and my family and what I see as real struggles in day to day life, through my reporting. I'm never going to look at challenges.

Your struggle is your strength. If you can resist becoming negative, bitter or hopeless, in time, your struggles will give you everything.

It's easy to have a great attitude when things are going our way...It's when difficult challenges rise before us...that attitude becomes the difference maker.

Something always turns up. It always seems darkest before the dawn. When God closes a door he opens a window. All things happen for a reason. Into every life a little rain must fall. What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

That's the thing about life. A lot of the time, it isn't easy at all. We just have to try to make the best of it.

All happiness depends on courage and work. I have had many periods of wretchedness, but with energy and above all with illusions, I pulled through them all.

The challenge is to resist circumstances. Any idiot can be happy in a happy place, but moral courage is required to be happy in a hellhole.

Adversity can strengthen us if it does not go on too long.

You don't always get stronger on the days that everything comes easily to you.

Everything's been a struggle for me.

If falling into desperation worked to make things better, then I would say, 'Let's all jump into despair.' But it doesn't help. The only way to truly find meaning and fulfillment is to look at the disaster, the pain, the difficulty, and know with complete certainty that good can come from this.

I am not driven by any bitterness by what happened in Athens. I learnt a lot of lessons from it and probably came through it a stronger person in the end. There have been a lot of near misses, and that's taught me to keep persevering and that there is a chance it can come right.

And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.

Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.

If you so choose, the challenges can make you stronger. If you so choose, the disappointments can make you more determined.

Difficult times often bring out the best in people.

You have to remember that the hard days are what make you stronger. The bad days make you realize what a good day is. If you never had any bad days, you would never have that sense of accomplishment!

Life is tough; and if you have the ability to laugh at it, you have the ability to enjoy it.

You choose to be happy, and in life we have as many good days as bad days. I try to find and record those songs that pull you through the bad days, and keep you believing that the good days are just around the corner.

Life has never been easy. Nor is it meant to be. It is a matter of being joyous in the face of sorrow.

Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.

Life doesn't stop because something happens to you.

As in any person's life, there have been difficult moments: I have a son with Down's syndrome; through my photography, I have witnessed all manner of human degradation. But there have also been very happy moments.