The Power of Positive Thinking, Norman Vincent Peale’s 1952 self-help book, has sold over five million copies and has helped individuals all over the globe achieve success and overcome challenges.
The book was written with the sole objective of helping readers in living a happy, meaningful, and purposeful life.

It demonstrates how a mental attitude may improve people’s life and offers practical advice for dealing with common challenges.
Let’s go through some of the best life-changing quotes from Power of Positive Thinking book.
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Best Power of Positive Thinking Quotes
“Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate.” ~ Norman Vincent Peale (The Power of Positive Thinking).
“Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.” ~ Norman Vincent Peale (The Power of Positive Thinking).
“The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.” ~ Norman Vincent Peale (The Power of Positive Thinking).
“What you are determines the world in which you live, so as you change, your world changes also.” ~ Norman Vincent Peale (The Power of Positive Thinking).
“Self-knowledge is the beginning of self-correction.” ~ Norman Vincent Peale (The Power of Positive Thinking).
“The way to happiness: keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Fill your life with love. Scatter sunshine. Forget self, think of others. Do as you would be done by. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.” ~ Norman Vincent Peale (The Power of Positive Thinking).
“Never think of yourself as failing; never doubt the reality of the mental image. That is most dangerous, for the mind always tries to complete what it pictures.” ~ Norman Vincent Peale (The Power of Positive Thinking).
“Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.” ~ Norman Vincent Peale (The Power of Positive Thinking).
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Famous Power of Positive Thinking Quotes
“God is with me; God is helping me; God is guiding me.” ~ Norman Vincent Peale (The Power of Positive Thinking).
“The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.” ~ Norman Vincent Peale (The Power of Positive Thinking).
“He was suffering from self-love, a chief cure for which is the practice of love for others.” ~ Norman Vincent Peale (The Power of Positive Thinking).
“Imagination is the true magic carpet.” ~ Norman Vincent Peale (The Power of Positive Thinking).
“Alert people everywhere are finding that by trying prayer power they feel better, work better, do better, sleep better, are better.” ~ Norman Vincent Peale (The Power of Positive Thinking).
“We are beginning to comprehend a basic truth hitherto neglected, that our physical condition is determined very largely by our emotional condition, and our emotional life is profoundly regulated by our thought life.” ~ Norman Vincent Peale (The Power of Positive Thinking).
“If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed … nothing shall be impossible unto you.” ~ Norman Vincent Peale (The Power of Positive Thinking).
Top Power of Positive Thinking Quotes
“Attitudes are more important than facts.” ~ Norman Vincent Peale (The Power Of Positive Thinking).
“It’s always too early to quit.” ~ Norman Vincent Peale (The Power of Positive Thinking).
“You do not need to be a victim of worry. Reduced to its simplest form, what is worry? It is simply an unhealthy and destructive mental habit.” ~ Norman Vincent Peale (The Power of Positive Thinking).
“I place this day, my life, my loved ones, my work in the Lord’s hands. There is no harm in the Lord’s hands, only good. Whatever happens, whatever results, if I am in the Lord’s hands it is the Lord’s will and it is good.” ~ Norman Vincent Peale (The Power of Positive Thinking).
“A sense of inferiority and inadequacy interferes with the attainment of your hopes, but self-confidence leads to self-realization and successful achievement.” ~ Norman Vincent Peale (The Power of Positive Thinking).
“Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking everyday. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.” ~ Norman Vincent Peale (The Power of Positive Thinking).
“Let nothing trouble you let nothing worry you everything passes away except God – God alone is sufficient.” ~ Norman Vincent Peale (The Power of Positive Thinking).
Powerful Power of Positive Thinking Quotes
“A man who is self-reliant, positive, optimistic, and undertakes his work with the assurance of success magnetizes his condition. He draws to himself the creative powers of the universe.” ~ Norman Vincent Peale (The Power of Positive Thinking).
“The way to happiness: Keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Scatter sunshine, forget self, think of others. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.” ~ Norman Vincent Peale (The Power of Positive Thinking).
“You need be defeated only if you are willing to be.” ~ Norman Vincent Peale (The Power of Positive Thinking).
“To become a happy person have a clean soul, eyes that see romance in the commonplace, a child’s heart, and spiritual simplicity.” ~ Norman Vincent Peale (The Power of Positive Thinking).
“One never does wrong by doing right.” ~ Norman Vincent Peale (The Power of Positive Thinking).
Life-Changing Power of Positive Thinking Quotes
“The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results.” ~ Norman Vincent Peale (The Power of Positive Thinking).
“The trouble with most prayers is that they aren’t big enough.” ~ Norman Vincent Peale (The Power of Positive Thinking).
“The greatest secret for eliminating the inferiority complex, which is another term for deep and profound self-doubt, is to fill your mind to overflowing with faith. Develop a tremendous faith in God and that will give you a humble yet soundly realistic faith in yourself.” ~ Norman Vincent Peale (The Power of Positive Thinking).
“Stand up to an obstacle. Just stand up to it, that’s all, and don’t give way under it, and it will finally break. You will break it. Something has to break, and it won’t be you, it will be the obstacle.” ~ Norman Vincent Peale (The Power of Positive Thinking).
“Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture… Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.” ~ Norman Vincent Peale (The Power of Positive Thinking).
“Change your thoughts and you change your world.” ~ Norman Vincent Peale (The Power of Positive Thinking).
“Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.” ~ Norman Vincent Peale (The Power of Positive Thinking).
“Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex.” ~ Norman Vincent Peale (The Power of Positive Thinking).
“When you expect the best, you release a magnetic force in your mind which by a law of attraction tends to bring the best to you.” ~ Norman Vincent Peale (The Power of Positive Thinking).
“The cyclone derives its power from a calm center. So does a person.” ~ Norman Vincent Peale (The Power of Positive Thinking).
“It is not hard work that drains off energy but emotional upheaval.” ~ Norman Vincent Peale (The Power of Positive Thinking).
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