Norman Vincent Peale Quotes

My problem is how to find the best way of being useful.

What matters is hard work, and emotional intelligence.

I always thought success was from inside, so it was how diversified you were as a person and how cultivated or how much you cultivated yourself.

A man of character finds a special attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty that he can realize his potentialities

I truly enjoy working with kids because they teach me something and it allows me to get in touch with few things that are a bit personal to me.

Before you can lead anybody else, you gotta put yourself in the right position to be successful.

I try to pace my life out and try not to be too involved with negativity and try to fix what I can fix in my life.

People hold me accountable. Before I would push people away, but that's not a way to be successful.

All I can focus on is my performance, and that's going to help me be successful, no matter where I am.

Winners are not born, they are self-made.

The ability to find solutions to life's challenges is what makes us grow as a person.

Successful people are not people without problems. They are people who have learned to solve their problems.

Education is the foundation of success. Just as scholastic skills are vitally important, so are financial skills and communication skills.

Plans get you into things, but you got to work your way out.

It is in the ordinary events of every day that we develop the proactive capacity to handle the extraordinary pressures of life. It's how we make and keep commitments, how we handle a traffic jam, how we respond to an irate customer or a disobedient child. It's how we view our problems and where we focus our energies. It's the language we use.

Discipline is the basic set of tools we require to solve life’s problems. Without discipline we can solve nothing. With only some discipline we can solve only some problems. With total discipline we can solve all problems.

Talent sets the floor, character sets the ceiling

If you wish to succeed in managing and controlling others - learn to manage and control yourself.

What keeps so many people back is simply unwillingness to pay the price, to make the exertion, the effort to sacrifice their ease and comfort.

As you practice things, you get better. I mean I've worked very hard on changing my life and taking what is good about it and trying to jettison the things I think were not good about it. I think the key word is "discipline," focus. I'm always working at it, but I'm not always successful.

Success is mine when I work my hardest to become my best, and I alone determine whether I do so.

No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

If somebody else is achieving more than I am, that means I can do it, too. Everybody has the ability to raise themselves up, and my life has been marked by that.

Successful people take their current limitation and put it on their agenda as a job to do, as a thing to figure out and make happen.

Do not think it wasted time to submit yourselves to any influence which may bring upon you any noble feeling.