POSITIVE THINKING EVERY DAY

POSITIVE THINKING EVERY DAY

an inspiration for each day of the year

NORMAN VINCENT PEALE

Hyun Joo Kim

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Peale, Norman Vincent, 1898-

Positive thinking everyday : an inspiration for each day of the year / Norman Vincent Peale.

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1. Self-actualization (Psychology)—Quotations, maxims, etc. 2. Optimism—Quotations, maxims, etc. 3. Motivation (Psychology)—Quotations, maxims, etc. I. Title.

BF637.S4P42   1993

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ISBN-13: 978-0-671-86891-8

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INTRODUCTION

At the time I was a student in college, Dr. John W. Hoffman was president of Ohio Wesleyan. He was a scholar, a teacher, and an eloquent speaker.

Every speech he made was inspirational and the students would come with notebook and pencil in hand to catch every quotation for which his speeches were famous.

He was a believer in the quotable extract, and he said that many a speaker would be quoted more if he had the reputation of using quotable material. I think Dr. Hoffman was one of the first of many speakers using one-liners on the American platform that are now popular.

When engraved upon the memory, said Winston Churchill, quotations will “give you good thoughts.” Whatever length it is, if it suggests a good idea, it is important.

I remember one quotation from Ralph Waldo Emerson that was particularly suggestive and since Dr. Hoffman made speeches once a week to the student assembly, I often heard these words:

So nigh is grandeur to our dust

So near is God to man,

When Duty whispers low, Thou must,

The youth replies, I can.

Along the pathway of the years, I have learned much from short quotations. For example, I learned to have patience and my first teacher in this regard was Ben Franklin who had my lifelong admiration. He said, “He that can have patience can have what he will.”

From Thomas Carlyle I learned about persistence for as he said, “Every noble work is at first impossible.”

Having believed in enthusiasm all my life, I think Emerson was right when he said, “Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.”

And somewhere in my reading I picked up Georges-Jacques Danton: “We must dare, and dare again, and go on daring.”

I think that quotations from great thinkers can profoundly affect one’s life. It is my sincere hope that the quotations in this book will affect you for the best. One day long ago as I sat in class in Boston University, it was as if I had been hit by a bolt of lightning. The thought struck me so forcefully that it vitally affected my total faith and still does.

The truth of it seemed certain. I believed it. I accepted it. From my personal background I associated personal change with faith and in a flash of insight knew that I could change my life by changing my attitude. I have been advocating that truth about people ever since.

—Norman Vincent Peale

Pawling, New York

January 13, 1993

JANUARY 1

When you wholeheartedly adopt a “with all your heart” attitude and go all out with the positive principle, you can do incredible things.

JANUARY 2

You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.

JANUARY 3

Every day remind yourself of your own ability, of your good mind and affirm that you can make something really good out of your life.

JANUARY 4

Stress the thought of plenty. Thoughts of plenty help create plenty.

JANUARY 5

The great secret of getting what you want from life is to know what you want and believe you can have it. Always do something for others, then ask God to help you and get at it.

JANUARY 6

Have absolutely no sense of guilt about being happy and successful if you operate honestly and with a sense of social responsibility.

JANUARY 7

Live your life and forget your age.

JANUARY 8

Cultivate will power, that massive creative force that God the creator built into you. Do not let it remain flabby but strengthen it by use and exercise.

JANUARY 9

Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.

JANUARY 10

Make a list of your friends and determine who is the most positive thinker among them and deliberately cultivate his society.

JANUARY 11

Life’s blows cannot break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm.

JANUARY 12

Our happiness depends upon the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.

JANUARY 13

Thoughts of a kind have a natural affinity. While the negative thinker tends to draw back to himself negative results, the positive thinker activates the world around him positively.

JANUARY 14

Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.

JANUARY 15

Let go and let God. Let Him take over your life and run it. He knows how.

JANUARY 16

It’s always too soon to quit!

JANUARY 17

If you think lack you tend to create a condition of lack. Shift your thought pattern to one of abundance and believe that God is now in the process of giving you the abundance you need.

JANUARY 18

People who are really efficient seem to do things easily, with a minimum of effort. In so doing they release maximum power.

JANUARY 19

Help other people to cope with their problems and your own will be easier to cope with.

JANUARY 20

Believe that all the resources you need are in your mind. That is a formula that really works!

JANUARY 21

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

JANUARY 22

Develop a tremendous faith in God and that will give you a humble yet soundly realistic faith in yourself.

JANUARY 23

Miracles are of all sizes. And if you start believing in little miracles, you can work up to the bigger ones.

JANUARY 24

Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented, and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.

JANUARY 25

One of the few greatest satisfactions of this life is to handle problems efficiently and well.

JANUARY 26

First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, “I believe,” three times.

JANUARY 27

If you feel afraid, you can make yourself courageous by acting courageous. If you are feeling unhappy, by deliberately acting happy you can induce happy feelings. If you are lacking in enthusiasm, by simply acting enthusiastic you can make yourself enthusiastic.

JANUARY 28

Do not ask a person to be what he, or she, is not. Do not ask or expect from a person what he cannot give.

JANUARY 29

Practice word therapy—serenity, urbanity, imperturbability, equanimity. Say those powerful, mind-healing words over to yourself every day. Let them recondition your stressful attitudes.

JANUARY 30

Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all that you do. It tones up your physical vitality and gives warmth to all your personal relationships. When you associate with enthusiasm long enough it grabs you and takes over within you.

JANUARY 31

Never use the word “impossible” seriously again. Toss it into the verbal wastebucket.

FEBRUARY 1

Why be defeated when you are free to draw upon a Higher Power that can do everything for you?

FEBRUARY 2

The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command to deliver mental resources.

FEBRUARY 3

Medication is of course important but do not conclude that a pill dissolving in your stomach is necessarily more powerful than a healing thought dissolving in your mind.

FEBRUARY 4

For the next twenty-four hours, deliberately speak hopefully about everything, about your job, about your children’s marks in school, about your health, and about your future.

FEBRUARY 5

Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.

FEBRUARY 6

When a problem comes along, study it until you are completely knowledgeable. Then find that weak spot, break the problem apart, and the rest will be easy.

FEBRUARY 7

Resentment or grudges do no harm to the person against whom you hold these feelings, but every day and every night of your life they are eating at you.

FEBRUARY 8

There is nothing at all wrong with having money unless money has you.

FEBRUARY 9

Faith plus dynamic dreams plus real working at it is a go-ahead formula that gets you where you want to go.

FEBRUARY 10

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

FEBRUARY 11

Constantly reemphasize to yourself the great fact that God built potential strength into your nature. By affirming it and practicing it, this basic strength will toughen up as muscles do.

FEBRUARY 12

When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor.

FEBRUARY 13

One of the greatest moments in anybody’s developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.

FEBRUARY 14

Successful and happy living is built into you by God who created you. If you have never experienced this kind of life, maybe you need to be re-created.

FEBRUARY 15

The “how” thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile “ifs” but goes right to work on the creative “how.”

FEBRUARY 16

To keep motivation going strong, begin at once the mental practice of seeing yourself as an altogether new individual—one who is always vital, vigorous, and excited.

FEBRUARY 17

The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.

FEBRUARY 18

Optimism is positive thinking lighted up.

FEBRUARY 19

Every person can be opened up to more effective performance when you apply dynamic and creative motivation to him.

FEBRUARY 20

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.

FEBRUARY 21

Trust God and live a day at a time.

FEBRUARY 22

When you are in an upsetting situation, try loving everyone involved and pray for them, hard as that may be. Loving doesn’t mean sentimentality but rather a rational esteem for them as persons.

FEBRUARY 23

You can make the mind give you back anything you want, but remember the mind can give back only what it was first given. So fill your mind with all peaceful experiences possible, then make planned and deliberate excursions to them in memory.

FEBRUARY 24

Self-trust is the first secret of success. So believe in and trust yourself.

FEBRUARY 25

There is a giant in every person, and nothing can get this giant down unless that giant is kept down by himself.

FEBRUARY 26

The secret of having prosperity and enjoying life is the unshakable conviction that God will take care of those who love and trust Him.

FEBRUARY 27

In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it.

FEBRUARY 28

Stamp indelibly on your mind a picture of yourself as succeeding. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop this picture.

FEBRUARY 29

Two great forces operate in the mind: fear and faith. Fear is very powerful, but faith is more powerful.

MARCH 1

Every night empty your mind of unhappy thoughts as you empty your pockets, and come alive.

MARCH 2

Take the bright view that if you do your part, the very best you know how, and always think and work positively, bountiful supply and abundant living will come.

MARCH 3

Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don’t take yourself so seriously.

MARCH 4

Pray big; God will grant big things if you ask for them and are big enough to receive them.

MARCH 5

What you think you will become—good or bad, weak or strong, defeated or victorious—so practice being a positive thinker in a time like this.

MARCH 6

Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven’t half the strength you think they have.

MARCH 7

You’ll always get an idea if you think and don’t panic.

MARCH 8

Learn to let God run your life. You’ll like the results better than your own self-management.

MARCH 9

Practice failure and you can quite surely count on failing. Practice enthusiasm in even the most commonplace things and presently the immense power of enthusiasm will begin working wonders for you.

MARCH 10

Take all the fuming and fretting of the media with a grain of salt. Much of today’s news isn’t really new. Most of it has happened before and before that.

MARCH 11

The minute your feelings are hurt, do just as when you hurt your finger. Put some spiritual iodine on the hurt at once by saying a prayer of love and forgiveness.

MARCH 12

Become a specialist in doing the “wholly impossible,” the things that “can’t” be done.

MARCH 13

Be sure to image right, for we tend to become as we see ourselves. So see yourself confidently.

MARCH 14

The unconquered and unconquerable of this world are those who hold ever fresh in their hearts an abiding faith in a Higher Power and in their own destiny.

MARCH 15

The tough-minded optimist views any problem as a challenge to his intelligence, ingenuity, and faith. He keeps on thinking, praying, and believing. He knows there is a solution and so he finally finds it.

MARCH 16

Saturate your thoughts with peaceful experiences, peaceful words and ideas, and ultimately you will have a storehouse of peace-producing experiences to which you may turn for refreshment and renewal of your spirit.

MARCH 17

When you become mentally convinced that you can make a comeback from any adversity, then all of your creative forces will come to your aid.

MARCH 18

By acting as you wish yourself to be, in due course you will become as you act.

MARCH 19

If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up.

MARCH 20

There is only one real security in this world, only one; identification of the soul with the ultimate reality—God, our refuge and strength.

MARCH 21

Never participate in a worry conversation. Shoot an injection of faith into all your conversations.

MARCH 22

Tackle life with abandon. Go all out, hold nothing back. Your self-confidence will draw results.

MARCH 23

Start and end every day, and in between times too, by thanking God for everything.

MARCH 24

Stand up to any defeating lack thoughts and tell them to get out of your mind!

MARCH 25

The secret of changing one’s personality, regardless of the problem, is to think in new categories, reeducating your thought pattern so that enthusiasm is put into the top-priority category.

MARCH 26

As you go through life, do not practice subtraction; but instead add up your blessings, opportunities, possibilities. In so doing you will be relaxed, outgoing, and successful.

MARCH 27

Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself. In giving it you will accumulate a deposit of joy greater than you ever believed possible.

MARCH 28

God helps only those who help themselves. So the best way to be sure that God will take care of you is to take pretty good care of yourself.

MARCH 29

Prayer can freshen you up every evening and send you out renewed each morning. It releases and keeps power flowing freely and seems able even to normalize the aging process.

MARCH 30

Tell yourself that you like your work. This will tend to make it a pleasure instead of a drudgery.

MARCH 31

God’s peace deeply imbedded in your mind can often have a tranquilizing and healing effect upon nerves and tension. God’s peace is itself medicinal.

APRIL 1

While fear thoughts can destroy creative capacity, and bring to pass things that are constantly feared, faith and positivism can create and develop.

APRIL 2

We are not meant to be worms crawling defeated in the presence of a difficult situation. We are men, women, children of God who can take charge of our thoughts and do what we will with them.

APRIL 3

You have not only the right but the duty to be happy and successful.

APRIL 4

Enthusiasm lifts living out of the depths and makes it mean something. Play it cool and you may freeze. Play it hot and even if you get burned, at least you will shed warmth over a discouraged and bewildered world.

APRIL 5

At least ten times every day affirm, “I expect the best and with God’s help will attain the best.”

APRIL 6

Formulate a goal; not a fuzzy, vague goal, but one that is sharp, clearly defined, and specific. Pray about it. Hold the image until it sinks into the unconscious. Then give it all you’ve got of thought, effort, imagination, and innovation.

APRIL 7

Only a few of those who accomplish things in this world are superintellects. However, they have one super quality that keeps them going: the I-will-keep-trying attitude, the never-give-up, the stick-with-it, the hang-in-there, the keep-it-going attitude.

APRIL 8

Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit.

APRIL 9

Faith is the most powerful of all forces operating in humanity, and when you have it in depth, nothing can get you down. Nothing.

APRIL 10

Go to sleep using the conscious thought and affirmation that whatever you may be called upon to handle the next day God and you will be able to do together.

APRIL 11

Those who are fired with an enthusiastic idea and who allow it to take hold and dominate their thoughts find that new worlds open for them. As long as enthusiasm holds out, so will new opportunities.

APRIL 12

Prosperity is not always or even usually to be conceived in terms of money, but as a constant flow of God’s blessings.

APRIL 13

People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.

APRIL 14

To go fast, row slowly.

APRIL 15

The magic of enthusiasm can work magic in your life. Its powerful effect can remake your very existence.

APRIL 16

Life has an if at the center of the world and of our existence as well. Assume control of those variable and uncertain ifs.

APRIL 17

Realize that you can in and of yourself do much to make yourself a healthy, vital, and alive individual.

APRIL 18

The surest way to avoid becoming tired is to get absolutely enthralled in something about which you have a profound conviction. Throw yourself into it. Be somebody.

APRIL 19

Thoughts and words form your mental image. And since we become what we picture, be sure your thoughts and words express prosperity and blessing rather than poverty and defeat.

APRIL 20

Believe it is possible to solve your problem. Tremendous things happen to the believer. So believe the answer will come. It will.

APRIL 21

The greatest power available to a human being is in-depth faith, the force by which you can move mountains of difficulty.

APRIL 22

If you have been long defeated by a difficulty, it is probably because you have told yourself for weeks, months, and even for years that there is nothing you can do about it. But when you emphasize and reemphasize a positive attitude, you will finally convince your own consciousness that you can do something about difficulties.

APRIL 23

Let the challenge of your ambitions, of your aspirations, rouse your slumbering and often unused powers into action.

APRIL 24

Problems are to the mind what exercise is to the muscles, they toughen and make strong.

APRIL 25

Drop the three L’s—lack, loss, limitation—from your vocabulary.

APRIL 26

Motivation is like nutrition. It must be taken daily and in healthy doses to keep it going.

APRIL 27

To help reduce tension, practice “the peace of God which passeth all understanding.” Then note the quiet power that wells up within you.

APRIL 28

You can make yourself sick or well by the habitual thoughts you think. Don’t drain back into your body the diseased thoughts of your mind.

APRIL 29

Master the perception principle. Learn to know yourself. Know the real person deep within you.

APRIL 30

God wants to give you great things, but even He cannot give you any greater blessing than you can believe in.

MAY 1

The secret of prayer is to find the process that will most effectively open your mind humbly to God. So experiment with fresh prayer formulas. Practice new skills and get new insights.

MAY 2

Get with the philosophy which teaches us to “Rejoice with unutterable and exalted joy.”

MAY 3

If you are out of enthusiasm get reborn spiritually. That experience will make you come alive.

MAY 4

Don’t see yourself as old and getting older. Live youthfully now—and always.

MAY 5

You can if you think you can. As you think, so shall it be. Then think you can and you can, indeed.

MAY 6

The secret of life isn’t in what happens to you, but what you do with what happens to you.

MAY 7

Always let your prayer take the form of thanksgiving on the assumption that God is giving you great and wonderful things; for if you think He is, He surely is.

MAY 8

Never think or talk lack for in so doing you are decreeing lack.

MAY 9

Only the believers pick up the prizes in this life.

MAY 10

The vital secret of successful living is to get turned on with self-repeating enthusiasm, in-depth enthusiasm, and to keep the positive principle going.

MAY 11

Picture yourself as the kind of person you wish to be, affirm that you are that, then practice being it.

MAY 12

Never think of failing. You don’t need to.

MAY 13

Contact with God establishes within us a flow of the same type of energy that re-creates the world and that renews springtime every year.

MAY 14

Motivation puts the fire within you—the fire that gets the inner power going.

MAY 15

Knowledgeable persons now recognize the validity of spiritual principles as verifiable scientific procedure. They know that power operates through the mind as surely as through wires, and that faith produces results.

MAY 16

Give thanks daily for your blessings. Get the habit of thinking happy thoughts. Go out of your way to make other people happy. There is your formula for real happiness and enthusiasm.

MAY 17

A clean mind always delivers power.

MAY 18

An effective technique in developing a peaceful mind is the daily practice of silence. Begin to listen for the deeper sounds of harmony and beauty that are to be found in the essence of silence.

MAY 19

Don’t shy off real spiritual faith. It’s packed with excitement that burns out boredom.

MAY 20

Never think or talk lack for in so doing you are decreeing lack. Stress the thought of plenty. Thoughts of plenty help create plenty.

MAY 21

Be humble, be big in mind and soul, be kindly; you will like yourself that way and so will other people.

MAY 22

Believe that problems do have answers, that they can be overcome, that you can solve them. These positive belief thoughts will strongly tend to bring back belief results.

MAY 23

See how many people you can help to cure their own worry habit. In helping another to overcome worry you get greater power over it within yourself.

MAY 24

If you consider yourself weak and inadequate, you are taking an erroneous view. Know for sure that there is a giant within you. And then release the giant YOU.

MAY 25

Take a long, straight look at your fear. Know it for the ghostly thing it is and stand firmly up to it. Then practice strong action.

MAY 26

Practice believing that God is as real and actual as your wife, or your business partner, or your closest friend. Practice talking matters over with Him; believe that He hears and gives thought to your problem.

MAY 27

If there’s no fun in it, something’s wrong with all you’re doing.

MAY 28

When uncontrolled, your mind can be very damaging to you, but when controlled it can develop unlimited power.

MAY 29

If you love people, you inevitably get back love in return and thereby experience a joy that makes you a happy person.

MAY 30

Throw your heart over the bar and your body will follow.

MAY 31

Commit the following statement to memory and say it now and then: “I sought the Lord, and He heard me, and delivered me from all my fears.” (Psalm 34:4)

JUNE 1

Every day remind yourself of your own ability, of your good mind, and affirm that you can make something really good out of your life.

JUNE 2

When you think you are down for good, simply start affirming: “What an advantage to have hit bottom. The bottom is as far down as I can go. The only direction from here is up. And up I am going.”

JUNE 3

Remember that the most powerful motivation is spiritual motivation. So expose yourself to the spiritual.

JUNE 4

The world in which you live is not primarily determined by outward conditions and circumstances but by thoughts that habitually occupy your mind.

JUNE 5

Always remember that problems contain values that have improvement potential.

JUNE 6

It isn’t always necessary to say words when you pray. Spend a minute just thinking about God. Think how good He is, how kindly, and that He is right by your side guiding you and watching over you.

JUNE 7

For health, vitality, and aliveness, keep on affirming that the powerful life force of God is flowing through your mind, your spirit, your body.

JUNE 8

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.

JUNE 9

Empty out old dead thoughts and be reborn in mind and spirit. That experience will make you come alive.

JUNE 10

Thinking positively about your abilities tends to release positive mental forces that produce effective action.

JUNE 11

You can make your life what you want it to be through belief in God and in yourself.

JUNE 12

Keep alert to the magic motivational word that forms an inspiring idea for you. It can reactivate and change you from indifferent to dynamic living.

JUNE 13

Visualize your fears as being drained out of your mind and the visualization will in due course by actualized.

JUNE 14

Break the tension of a problem by shifting your thoughts completely from it and instead think only about God. When you return to the problem your insight will sharpen, your understanding deepen.

JUNE 15

Right eating, right exercising, right thinking, right praying, right living—these tone up vitality.

JUNE 16

Cut the “im” out of impossible, leaving that dynamic word standing out free and clear—possible.

JUNE 17

Feed your mind with thoughts that cause it to be peaceful. To have a mind full of peace merely fill it full of peace. It’s as simple as that.

JUNE 18

Be an all-out, not a hold-out.

JUNE 19

Know for a fact that with God’s help you can take what you have to take courageously and victoriously.

JUNE 20

How do you keep enthusiasm going? Form a mental picture of the goal you wish to attain and another picture of that goal as being already achieved, and you have put wings under the hard toil of trying.

JUNE 21

As you develop and hold the thought that any adversity can actually be turned to your advantage, you then have an immense mental asset going for you.

JUNE 22

The great secret of successful living is to change your thinking from wrong to right, from error to truth.

JUNE 23

Practice believing in people and SHOW them that you believe in them.

JUNE 24

Do your honest best, think prosperity and the Lord will, for a fact, provide. He will do the providing through you.

JUNE 25

Never let any mistake cause you to stop believing in yourself. Learn from it and go on.

JUNE 26

Always affirm there is an answer to any problem and that you can find it; indeed, that you are now finding that answer.

JUNE 27

When you get up in the morning, you have two choices—either to be happy or to be unhappy. Just choose to be happy.

JUNE 28

Don’t waste mental energy brooding over past events or worrying about the future. Live a day at a time and do a job at a time.

JUNE 29

God will always take care of those who love Him and trust Him and sincerely do His will.

JUNE 30

Quiet your mind so that inspirations may rise from its depths. An inflow of new thoughts can remake you regardless of every difficulty you may now face, and I repeat—every difficulty.

JULY 1

Keep probing for the tremendous quality built into you which has not yet emerged.

JULY 2

God’s peace deeply imbedded in your mind can often have a more tranquilizing and healing effect upon nerves and tension than medicine. God’s peace is itself medicinal.

JULY 3

You will never know what great things you can do until you try—really try.

JULY 4

Never take no for an answer.

JULY 5

When you pray ask the Lord for directions as to what to do and how to do it. Then believe what He tells you. Do as He says.

JULY 6

When you actually learn to release the potential power of your mind, you will discover that it contains ideas of such creative value that you need not lack anything.

JULY 7

Hold the image of the life you want and make the image become fact.

JULY 8

Get the spiritual experience that really changes things; the in-depth type that brings you alive and keeps you alive every day all the way.

JULY 9

The positive thinker is a hard-headed, tough-minded, and factual realist. He sees all the difficulties clearly … which is more than can be said for the average negative thinker. But he sees more than difficulties—he tries to see the solutions of those difficulties.

JULY 10

The more problems you have, the more alive you are.

JULY 11

If you sit and relax and get yourself in tune with God and open yourself to the flow of His power, then sitting is not laziness; in fact, it is about the best way to renew power.

JULY 12

Every day flush lack thoughts out of your mind and refill with dynamic thoughts of abundance. Expect generous benefits in never failing supply.

JULY 13

You can get over those big mountains of difficulties by thinking over them.

JULY 14

Never forget that all the enthusiasm you need is in your mind. Let it out—let it live—let it motivate you.

JULY 15

Dare to be what your best self knows you ought to be; dare to be a bigger human being than you have ever been.

JULY 16

Don’t write off the importance of hard work, the guts to keep at it, a definite goal, and the ability to have fun in the process. If there’s no fun in it, something’s wrong with all you’re doing.

JULY 17

Keep your mental and spiritual “contact points” cleaned so that God can operate through your mind.

JULY 18

If power isn’t coming through, find the block and remove it.

JULY 19

Never react emotionally to criticism. Analyze yourself to determine whether it is justified. If it is, correct yourself. Otherwise, go on about your business.

JULY 20

Marriage to the very end of life must never be taken for granted. Do not become prosaic, dowdy, careless, unattentive, or unappreciative. Be gallant, be feminine. Always seek to keep the element of romance alive.

JULY 21

Do not let circumstances defeat you. You can if you think you can.

JULY 22

Directly in proportion to the faith that you have and use will you get results.

JULY 23

Never allow sick attitudes to poison your thinking, nor let ill will make you ill. Avoid making your mind “sore” by that painful rehurting called resentment.

JULY 24

Think—the successful idea is always in your mind. Think it out.

JULY 25

Every day spend some unhurried moments in thinking energy, thinking vitality, actually “seeing” the life force at work in you. Your energy and vitality will continue on and on and still on.

JULY 26

Make a mental list of happy thoughts and pass them through your mind several times every day.

JULY 27

Put your trust in God and just go calmly on your way.

JULY 28

How you think about a problem is more important than the problem itself—so always think positively.

JULY 29

To be more than you are, to do more than you are doing, to achieve higher standards and greater results are definitely inherent in each of us.

JULY 30

Never bog down in a defeat psychology. Always, in the midst of defeat, keep looking for victory.

JULY 31

Marriage is a partnership in which individual selfishness has to be surrendered for mutual gain.

AUGUST 1

We may live victoriously, not because we have any power within ourselves, but because when we give ourselves to God, He gives Himself to us. This is the great key to humble self-confidence.

AUGUST 2

To keep the magic of enthusiasm working for you, have an eye for the charm and romance of living and practice aliveness.

AUGUST 3

Constantly reemphasize the great fact that God built potential strength into your nature. By affirming it and practicing it, this basic strength will toughen up as muscles do.

AUGUST 4

To drop tension from your life, practice the getting of tranquillity by passing peaceful words and thoughts through your mind daily and nightly. They have a strange healing quality.

AUGUST 5

A person who thinks a problem through and phrases it so that he himself sees it clearly has thereby made it possible to receive those clear answers which are waiting in the mind of God. Only clarity can receive clearly.

AUGUST 6

Get worked up about your job and you will work your job up.

AUGUST 7

There is a reason why you do what you do and it is an important day in your life experience when at last you discover the reason. Self-knowledge is the beginning of self-correction.

AUGUST 8

When you are afraid, do the thing you are afraid of and soon you will lose your fear of it.

AUGUST 9

Become intensely interested. Fan your interest daily. Keep it vitalized.

AUGUST 10

Persevere in your search for God. When you find Him zest and enthusiasm will fill your mind to overflowing.

AUGUST 11

The more you venture to live greatly, the more you will find within you what it takes to get on top of things and stay there.

AUGUST 12

Avoid argument, but whenever a negative attitude is expressed, counter with a positive and optimistic opinion.

AUGUST 13

Keep thinking, keep interested, keep praying, keep dreaming. Be mentally sensitive at all times so that the magic word that motivates you may one day speak to your deep inner self.

AUGUST 14

Each of us has a big piece of good news deep within ourselves—the fact that with God’s help we have what it takes to meet all upsetting situations and to react creatively to them.

AUGUST 15

Take God as your partner in every enterprise.

AUGUST 16

Image your goal. Hold that image in consciousness. Keep that image always before you and your goal will materialize.

AUGUST 17

When most people say they are being “realistic” they delude themselves; they are simply being negative.

AUGUST 18

Follow a steady program of renewing and revitalizing your positive attitudes. Never allow your reactions to become dull or insipid. Keep them new, fresh, vital.

AUGUST 19

Listen for the magic word of motivation and you will hear it. Then the sky is the limit.

AUGUST 20

Always maintain hopefulness, especially when the going is hard.

AUGUST 21

You must feed your mind even as you feed your body, and to make your mind healthy you must feed it nourishing, wholesome thoughts.

AUGUST 22

If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.

AUGUST 23

Whatever you do, do not make all your prayers into the form of asking God for something. The prayer of thanksgiving is much more powerful.

AUGUST 24

Believe that you are bigger than your difficulties, for you are, indeed.

AUGUST 25

Practice creative anticipation, the power of positive expectation. Have confidence that you can draw the best, not the worst, to yourself.

AUGUST 26

Become a positive thinker. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities—they’re always there.

AUGUST 27

Go out of your way to talk optimistically about everything.

AUGUST 28

If you’ve never really found the extraordinary person within you, do so. Then you’ll start liking yourself, and with good reason.

AUGUST 29

Keep the positive principle going by visualizing energy and vitality continuously at work within you, refreshing body, mind, and spirit.

AUGUST 30

Always poke around a problem looking for its soft spot, for nearly every problem has one. Then break the problem open and find the solution.

AUGUST 31

You can if you think you can. Engrave those seven words deeply in your consciousness. They are packed with power and with truth.

SEPTEMBER 1

The conscious mind may suggest sickness, even death, but nine tenths of your mind is in the subconscious. Let the picture of health sink into the subconscious and this powerful part of your mind will send forth radiant health energy.

SEPTEMBER 2

Know for a fact that you are never alone. A great Someone is with you always.

SEPTEMBER 3

In adversity keep motivated, for often the best comes from difficulty.

SEPTEMBER 4

Don’t tense up no matter what, for you only close off creative power when you do.

SEPTEMBER 5

God has arranged two remedies for all illness. One is healing through natural laws applicable by science, and the other brings healing by spiritual law applicable through faith.

SEPTEMBER 6

Go at life with abandon; give it all you’ve got. And life will give all it has to you.

SEPTEMBER 7

Never forget that marriage is not a contest of wills but an equal partnership in which each must share and share alike the rewards as well as the sorrows.

SEPTEMBER 8

Organize your difficulties and problems. Then you will have half the solution, and the rest will come more surely and easily.

SEPTEMBER 9

To be successful is to be helpful, caring, and constructive, to make everything and everyone you touch a little bit better. The best thing you have to give is yourself.

SEPTEMBER 10

Keep alert for those flashes of insight which come when you’re really thinking.

SEPTEMBER 11

One of the greatest techniques of human well-being is surrendering yourself to the recuperative power of God.

SEPTEMBER 12

Eliminate the word “impossible” from your conversation, drop it from your thoughts, erase it from your attitudes. Stop rationalizing it. Cease excusing it. Substitute for it that bright and shining word “possible.”

SEPTEMBER 13

Through study and practice, develop intensity of belief, in-depth faith, as contrasted with the nominal variety.

SEPTEMBER 14

Say to yourself, “Worry is just a very bad mental habit. And I can change any habit with God’s help.”

SEPTEMBER 15

Faith power in the mind, like adrenalin in the body, can release amazing powers within you in crisis.

SEPTEMBER 16

Remember Edison’s remark: “If we did all the things we are capable of doing we would literally astonish ourselves.” Astonish yourself!

SEPTEMBER 17

Don’t be afraid to be afraid.

SEPTEMBER 18

Sincere and practical meditation upon God and His truth acts as a medication for the soul and body.

SEPTEMBER 19

Miracles are not altogether made out of dreams. Often they are put together out of plain, everyday, nonglamorous facts.

SEPTEMBER 20

The relaxed person is the powerful person.

SEPTEMBER 21

The way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas. So think first, judge later.

SEPTEMBER 22

Practice creative listening. Get quiet so that insights can come through your mind.

SEPTEMBER 23

You can become free of worry by practicing the opposite and stronger habit of faith. With all the strength and perseverance you can command, start practicing faith.

SEPTEMBER 24

Do your best and leave the results to God.

SEPTEMBER 25

Always depend upon the calm knowledge that you can be master of anything that may happen to you.

SEPTEMBER 26

Don’t let any obstacle stop you. Always remember that you have spiritual and mental qualities within you that can overcome even the seemingly impossible.

SEPTEMBER 27

If you have lost confidence in your ability to win, make a list, not of the factors that are against you, but of those that are for you. Your inner power will reassert itself and lift you from defeat to victory.

SEPTEMBER 28

Ten times each day practice the following affirmation, “I can do all things through Christ which strengthened me.” (Philippians 4:13)

SEPTEMBER 29

Instead of trying to destroy all your anger, snip away by prayer each annoyance that feeds your anger. In so doing you will weaken it to such a point, that presently you will have control over it.

SEPTEMBER 30

Always be on the lookout for the big idea that can change your life.

OCTOBER 1

When trying makes you stale, divert your mind, relax, break the strain. Ideas will start flowing again.

OCTOBER 2

Love life and life will love you back.

OCTOBER 3

The chief struggle in gaining mental peace is the effort of revamping your thinking to the relaxed attitude of acceptance of God’s gift of peace.

OCTOBER 4

Keep exercising your mind. Think health—always think health.

OCTOBER 5

Realizable objectives are always formed mentally before they are actualized in fact.

OCTOBER 6

Have great hopes and dare to go all out for them. Have great dreams and dare to live them. Have tremendous expectations and believe in them.

OCTOBER 7

When a hurt feeling arises, apply grievance drainage to your mind. Pour it out to someone you trust until not a vestige of it remains within you. Then forget it.

OCTOBER 8

Say aloud, “I don’t believe in defeat,” until the idea dominates your subconscious attitudes. You will receive the power to handle all your problems.

OCTOBER 9

Deliberately conceive of God’s advice as passing into your mind and that in due time you will “know” what that advice is. If you must have that advice today, you will get it. If you do not need it until next week, you will have it then, if you believe you will.

OCTOBER 10

Prayerize, visualize, energize, actualize.

OCTOBER 11

Know that you are yourself a miracle. And believe you can make miracles happen—by thinking, praying, believing, working, and by helping people.

OCTOBER 12

Fear is the most powerful of all thoughts with one exception, and that one exception is faith.

OCTOBER 13

Remember that you will never be spiritually blessed until you forgive. Good will cannot flow toward you unless it flows from you.

OCTOBER 14

Rid yourself of all sick thoughts—hate, resentment, inferiority, and the like.

OCTOBER 15

Those who perfect the “try” technique may not be endowed with brilliant talent, but they go places in life because they become indomitable and undefeatable competitors.

OCTOBER 16

As you think defeat you tend to get it. Instead, adopt the “I don’t believe in defeat” attitude.

OCTOBER 17

Every day practice emptying your mind of all unhealthy attitudes.

OCTOBER 18

To be rid of worries about past mistakes, repeat this daily: “Forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press forward.”

OCTOBER 19

No difficulty is impregnable. Even imaginary ones can be overcome by right thinking.

OCTOBER 20

Hold the thought of all elements of the body working together in perfect rhythm.

OCTOBER 21

It is a well-defined and authentic principle that what the mind profoundly expects it tends to receive. Perhaps this is true because what you really expect is what you actually want.

OCTOBER 22

Let God help you try. Experts are made by this procedure.

OCTOBER 23

Worry rolls off the imperturable mind like water off a duck’s back.

OCTOBER 24

Get away from dirty and noisy cities. Get with streams, meadows, mountains, if at all possible. Nature siphons off boredom.

OCTOBER 25

Ten times a day repeat these dynamic words, “If God be for us, who can be against us?” (Romans 8:31)

OCTOBER 26

The positive thinker constantly sends out positive thoughts, together with vital mental images of hope, optimism, and creativity. He therefore activates the world around him positively and strongly tends to draw back to himself positive results.

OCTOBER 27

Visualize the Kingdom of God as in you. See yourself as the potential possessor of God’s bounty.

OCTOBER 28

Think health, practice health, pray health.

OCTOBER 29

Decide that you will not try to do everything at once. That is why time is spread out.

OCTOBER 30

Practice excited thinking until you become excited—and exciting.

OCTOBER 31

Faith power works wonders. Those four words are packed with dynamic and creative force.

NOVEMBER 1

Try living one day without any unhealthy thoughts. It may be very difficult, but try another day, until it becomes habitual, and life will move in the direction of becoming healthy, vital, and alive.

NOVEMBER 2

The attitude you take toward problems and difficulties is far and away the most important factor in controlling and mastering them.

NOVEMBER 3

The right way is right, because it meets less resistance and is therefore easier than the wrong way.

NOVEMBER 4

Visualize God, who created you, as constantly re-creating you in every element of being.

NOVEMBER 5

Think defeat and you are bound to feel defeated. But practice thinking confident thoughts, and you will develop such a strong sense of capacity that regardless of what difficulties arise you will be able to overcome them.

NOVEMBER 6

Spiritual commitment is not for oddballs but for “with it” people.

NOVEMBER 7

Remember that while the doctor treats you, God heals you.

NOVEMBER 8

Practice a daily quiet time in which to listen intently for God’s direction; listen more deeply than your own thoughts.

NOVEMBER 9

Live by the faith that will never let you down.

NOVEMBER 10

Never minimize your ability to think your way through any situation.

NOVEMBER 11

Never start a day or any job without praying about it. You will get some of your best ideas that way.

NOVEMBER 12

The negative principle negates. The positive principle creates. The negative principle doubts. The positive principle believes. The negative principle accepts defeat. The positive principle goes for victory.

NOVEMBER 13

The most curative thought in the world is the thought of love.

NOVEMBER 14

Tranquillity is one of the most beautiful and melodic of all English words, and the mere saying of it tends to induce a tranquil state.

NOVEMBER 15

Never think you “haven’t a prayer.” You do have a prayer to carry you through.

NOVEMBER 16

Do not spurn God’s help, for He has broad shoulders, strong arms, and wonderful ideas.

NOVEMBER 17

Be bold, and mighty powers will come to your aid.

NOVEMBER 18

Make a true estimate of your own ability, then raise it 10 percent.

NOVEMBER 19

One can impel his personality powers into action by intense desire, intense belief, and intense prayer—“intense” differentiating these factors from the usual bland attitudes of so many.

NOVEMBER 20

To every disadvantage there is a corresponding advantage.

NOVEMBER 21

Pray for people you do not like or who have mistreated you. Resentment is blockade number one of spiritual power.

NOVEMBER 22

Forget yourself! Think courage.

NOVEMBER 23

The truth is that there is much more strength and power in the individual than he has ever known or even visualized as a possibility.

NOVEMBER 24

Ease or difficulty in your work depends upon HOW you think about it. Think it is hard, and it is hard. Think it is easy, and it is easy.

NOVEMBER 25

The tests of life are not to break you but to make you.

NOVEMBER 26

A primary method for gaining a mind full of peace is to practice emptying the mind. At least twice a day, empty your mind of fears, hates, insecurities, regrets, and guilt feelings.

NOVEMBER 27

If everyone followed the purposes of the Creator, the general thrust of life would be in our favor, though not without some hard going at times.

NOVEMBER 28

Never force a decision. Let it simmer. If you properly condition the mind the decision will emerge when completely done.

NOVEMBER 29

Simply practice thinking about God. This will make your mind spiritually receptive.

NOVEMBER 30

The great speaker gathers up the hopes, dreams, and needs of the people and sends back upon them inspiration to help them realize those values which they seek.

DECEMBER 1

Ask for what you want, but be willing to take what God gives you. It may be better than what you ask for.

DECEMBER 2

Sing at least one song every day.

DECEMBER 3

To settle for self-limitation is to lock yourself up within yourself and therefore to deny to yourself the God-given opportunity for growth.

DECEMBER 4

Realize you are greater than you’ve ever considered yourself to be.

DECEMBER 5

Do not always ask when you pray, but instead affirm that God’s blessings are being given, and spend most of your prayers giving thanks.

DECEMBER 6

Success requires a humble yet real sense of adequacy, a normal sense of self-respect, and with it the conviction that you can accomplish what you want to do.

DECEMBER 7

Don’t take tomorrow to bed with you.

DECEMBER 8

Do an unexpected favor for someone and note the look of happy surprise in his eyes. This will fill you with joy.

DECEMBER 9

Every morning before arising, lie relaxed in bed and deliberately drop happy thoughts into your conscious mind.

DECEMBER 10

The power of words to change your life comes to top helpfulness in the seven magic words: “I can do all things through God.”

DECEMBER 11

Set yourself a goal that you’ve just got to reach. Then build under it the fire of anticipation and keep it burning. That goal will keep beckoning. And when you reach your goal still new goals will succeed it. These are the self-perpetuating motivators of enthusiasm.

DECEMBER 12

Take charge of your thoughts instead of allowing them to control you.

DECEMBER 13

Take pleasure in the pattern of the sunlight falling through the trees or the sound of the crunch of snow under your foot. Relish these things which are the essense of life and they will make your heart sing within you.

DECEMBER 14

You can reach your goal, your best dreams can come true, you can get where you want to go only if you know what your goal is.

DECEMBER 15

Do kindly things for people, for nothing can so completely erase gloom and create new vigor as the practice of caring and goodwill.

DECEMBER 16

Enthusiasm is a word meaning full of God. So to have enthusiasm fill your mind full of God.

DECEMBER 17

The Creator built energy into you and me when we were babies. He implanted in us the life force, and true faith can keep this life force alive.

DECEMBER 18

Always you can go higher, for within yourself you are greater than you think.

DECEMBER 19

Go out today with the thought that an inner light is shining out of you. People will notice and comment, “What an attractive personality.”

DECEMBER 20

A major key to success is to throw all there is of yourself into your job or any project. Whatever you are doing, give it all you’ve got.

DECEMBER 21

Practice the positive principle—the principle of the possible. “If ye have faith … nothing shall be impossible unto you.” (Matthew 17:20)

DECEMBER 22

The formula which will bring your cherished wish to pass is to know what you want, test it to see if it is a right thing, change yourself in such a manner that it will naturally come to you, and always have faith.

DECEMBER 23

It isn’t all-important what the condition of your body is; the important factor is the condition of your mind and soul.

DECEMBER 24

Old unhealthy thoughts can block off inspiration and motivation. Dropping them releases a strong flow of power through the mind.

DECEMBER 25

Act as if you had enthusiasm. Believe that you have it and you will be enthusiastic.

DECEMBER 26

Select a few people to be particularly kind to today, those you were a little harsh with yesterday.

DECEMBER 27

Never react emotionally to what happens but always look for and find in every circumstance the good that’s surely present there.

DECEMBER 28

Set aside a few minutes every day to say aloud such words as “exciting,” “dynamic,” “marvelous,” “fabulous,” “terrific.”

DECEMBER 29

Never think down—always think up.

DECEMBER 30

Take the best into your mind and only that. Nurture it, concentrate on it, visualize it, prayerize it, surround it with faith. Make it your obsession. Spiritually creative mind power aided by God power will produce the best.

DECEMBER 31

Know that there is no death, that all life is indivisible, that the here and hereafter are one, that time and eternity are inseparable, that this is one unobstructed universe. We are citizens of eternity.

INDEX

Ability, Jan 3; Jun 1, 10; Nov 18

Acceptance, Dec 1

Adversity, Mar 17; Jun 21; Sep 3

Affirmations, Jan 3, 24, 26; Apr 5, 10; Jun 2, 26; Sep 28; Oct 25

Aging, Jan 7; Mar 29; May 4

Ambition, Apr 23

Anger, Sep 29

Arguments, Aug 12

Aspirations, Feb 9; Apr 23; Oct 6

Attraction law, Feb 20

Belief, Jan 20, 26; Apr 20, 30; May 9, 22, 26; Jun 11, 23; Aug 24; Sep 13

Blessings, Mar 26; Apr 30

Boldness, Feb 2; Nov 17

Change, Feb 10; Mar 25; Jun 22; Aug 22

Clarity, Aug 5

Commitment, Nov 6

Conviction, Apr 18

Courage, Jan 27; Nov 22

Creativity, Feb 19; Mar 17; Apr 1; Jul 6; Aug 25; Sep 4, 22

Criticism, Jul 19

Daring, Jul 15; Aug 11; Oct 6

Death, Dec 31

Decisions, Nov 28

Defeat, Jan 9; Feb 1; Apr 22; Jul 21, 30; Oct 8, 16; Nov 5

Efficiency, Jan 18

Effort, Jul 3

Emotions, Dec 27

Energy, Feb 17; May 13; Jul 25; Aug 29; Oct 10; Dec 17

Enthusiasm, Jan 30; Apr 4; Jun 18; Jul 14; Sep 6; Dec 25

change and, Mar 25

God and, Dec 16

keeping, Jun 20; Aug 2

lack of, Jan 27; May 3

magic and, Apr 15

motivators of, Dec 11

practicing, Mar 9

problems and, Jan 11, 14

success and, Apr 11; May 10

Eternity, Dec 31

Expectations, Feb 20; Apr 5; Aug 25; Oct 6, 21

Failure, Mar 9; May 12

Faith, Jan 22; Feb 9; Mar 14, 21; Apr 9; May 19; Jul 22; Sep 13; Dec 21

fear and, Feb 29; Oct 12

mind and, Sep 15

miracles and, Oct 31

power and, Apr 21; May 15

practicing, Sep 23

Fear, Feb 29; Apr 1; May 25, 31; Jun 13; Aug 8; Sep 17; Oct 12

Forgiveness, Oct 13

Friends, Jan 10

Fun, May 27; Jul 16

Goals, Apr 6; Aug 16; Oct 5; Dec 11, 14

God, Jan 15; Mar 8; Jun 19, 29; Aug 15; Sep 2

energy and, May 13

enthusiasm and, Dec 16

fear and, May 31

health and, Mar 31; Nov 7

help from, Feb 1; Oct 9, 22; Nov 16

peace of, Jul 2

prayer and, Mar 4

purposes of, Nov 27

reality of, May 26

search for, Aug 10

security and, Mar 20

self-help and, Mar 28

strength and, Feb 11

tension reduction and, Apr 27

thinking about, Jul 11, 17; Nov 29

trust in, Jan 22; Feb 21, 26; Jul 27; Sep 11, 24

Guilt, Jan 6

Happiness, Jan 12, 27; Feb 14; Apr 3; Jun 8, 27

Health, Feb 3; Apr 28; Jun 15; Sep 1, 5; Oct 28

God and, Mar 31; Jun 7; Jul 2; Nov 7

Helping, Jan 19; Feb 12; Sep 9

Hope, Feb 4; Apr 8; Aug 20

Humility, May 21; Aug 1

Hurt feelings, Mar 11; Oct 7

Ideas, Sep 21, 30

“Impossible,” Jan 31; Mar 12; Jun 16; Sep 12

Inner light, Dec 19

Insight, Sep 10

Interest, Aug 9

Joy, Mar 27; May 2, 29; Dec 7

Kindness, May 21; Dec 15, 26

Kingdom of God, Oct 27

Lack, Mar 25; Apr 25; May 8, 20; Jul 12

Life, Mar 8, 22; Apr 16; May 6; Nov 25

Limitation, Apr 25; Dec 3

Listening, Sep 22

Living, Feb 21; May 10; Jun 28; Aug 1, 11; Nov 1, 9

Loss, Apr 25

Love, Feb 22; May 29; Oct 2; Nov 13

Marriage, Jul 20, 31; Sep 7

Media, Mar 10

Meditation, Sep 18

Mind, Feb 2, 23

condition of, May 17, 28; Oct 17; Dec 23

exercising, Oct 4

faith and, Sep 15

feeding, Aug 21; Dec 30

peaceful, May 18; Jun 17, 30; Nov 26

power and, May 15; Jul 6

problems and, Apr 24

Miracles, Jan 23; Sep 19; Oct 11, 31

Mistakes, Jun 25; Oct 18

Money, Feb 7

Motivation, Feb 16, 19; Apr 26; May 14

adversity and, Sep 3

spiritual, Jun 3

words and, Jun 12; Aug 13, 19

Nature, Oct 24; Dec 13

Optimism, Feb 18; Mar 15; Aug 27

Organization, Sep 8

Panic, Mar 7

Past events, Jun 28; Oct 18

Patience, Apr 14

Peace, Feb 23; Mar 16, 31; Jun 17; Aug 4; Oct 3

People

helping, Jan 19; Feb 12; May 23

kindness toward, Dec 15, 26

loving, Jan 28

Perception, Apr 29

Perseverance, Apr 7; Jul 4; Aug 10

Plenty, Jan 4, 17; May 20; Jul 12

Positive principle, Jan 1, 13; Apr 22; Jul 9; Aug 26, 31; Oct 26; Nov 12

Power, Jul 18; Nov 19

Prayer, Mar 4; May 1; Jul 5; Oct 10; Nov 15

aging and, Mar 29

anger and, Sep 29

daily, Nov 11

forgiveness and, Mar 11

about goals, Apr 6

for others, Nov 21

of thanksgiving, Mar 23; May 7; Aug 23; Dec 5

words and, Jun 6

Problems, Jan 19, 25; Feb 6, 15, 27; Mar 6; Jun 5, 14; Jul 10, 28; Aug 5, 30; Sep 26; Oct 19; Nov 2

affirmations and, Jun 26

belief and, Apr 20; May 22

mind and, Apr 24

optimism and, Mar 15

organization and, Sep 8

thinking and, Jul 9, 13

Prosperity, Apr 12; Jun 24

Quiet time, Nov 8

Quitting, Jan 16

Rebirth, May 3; Jun 9; Aug 18; Nov 4

Relaxation, Jul 11; Sep 20; Oct 1, 3

Resentment, Feb 7; Jul 23; Nov 21

Resources, Jan 20

Right way, Nov 3

Romance, Jul 20

Science, Sep 5

Security, Mar 20

Self-actualization, May 24; Jul 1, 29; Aug 14, 28; Oct 10; Nov 10

Self-affirmation, Jan 3, Jun 1

Self-confidence, Mar 22; Apr 2, 13; Aug 1; Sep 25, 27; Nov 5

Self-esteem, Jan 21; Aug 28

Self-help, Mar 28; Apr 17

Self-knowledge, Jan 5; Feb 13; Mar 3, 19; Apr 29; Aug 7; Dec 4, 18

Self-respect, Dec 6

Self-sabotage, Feb 25

Self-trust, Feb 24

Silence, May 18

Singing, Dec 2

Soul, Dec 23

Speaking, Jan 24; Feb 4; Nov 30

Spirituality, Jul 8

Strength, Jan 2; Feb 11; Mar 6; Aug 3; Nov 23

Stress, Jan 29

Struggle, Jan 14

Subconscious, Sep 1

Success, Feb 14, 26, 28; Apr 3, 13; May 9; Jun 11; Sep 9; Dec 6, 20, 22

Tension, Apr 27; Aug 4; Sep 4

Thanksgiving, Mar 23; May 7, 16; Aug 23; Dec 5

Thinking, Jan 12, 13; Feb 3; Mar 7; Apr 28; May 5; Jun 22; Jul 13, 24; Oct 30

Thoughts, Mar 5; Apr 19

dead, Jun 9

habitual, Jun 4

happy, May 16; Jul 26; Dec 9

negative, Aug 17

positive, Mar 2

prayer and, Jun 6

taking charge of, Dec 12

unhappy, Mar 1

unhealthy, Oct 14; Nov 1; Dec 24

Time, Oct 29

Tranquility, Nov 14

Trying, Oct 15

Uncertainty, Apr 16

Understanding, Feb 5

Visualization, Feb 16, 28; Mar 5, 13; May 11; Jul 7; Oct 5, 10

of energy, Aug 29

enthusiasm and, Jun 20

fear and, Jun 13

of goals, Aug 16

Kingdom of God and, Oct 27

rebirth and, Nov 4

Will power, Jan 8

Words, Jan 9, 29, 31; Apr 19; Dec 28

motivational, Jun 12; Aug 13, 19

power of, Dec 10

prayer and, Jun 6

Work, Feb 9, 10; Mar 2, 30; Jul 16; Aug 6; Nov 24

Worry, Mar 21; May 23; Sep 14, 23; Oct 23

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Dr. Norman Vincent Peale was the au thor of the phenomenal fifteen-million-copy bestseller, The Power of Positive Thinking, and forty-five other inspirational, practical self-help books. For fifty-two years, he was minister of New York City’s historic Marble Collegiate Church.

The messages delivered at Marble Collegiate Church were later put into written form and currently printed in Plus: The Magazine of Positive Thinking, published by the Peale Center for Christian Living of Pawling, New York. Dr. Peale and his wife, Ruth, are also founders of Guideposts magazine, an interfaith publication with a circulation exceeding four million.

Through his dynamic speaking at business conventions around the world, radio and television appearances, books and articles, audio- and videocassettes, Dr. Peale was truly an international “Minister to Millions.” The specially selected positive thoughts in this volume will help you discover a life-changing way to begin each day with a positive attitude.

For more in-depth inspirational reading, a free copy of Seven Values to Live By, a booklet by Dr. Peale, is available by writing to: Peale Center for Christian Living, Dept. 15052, 66 East Main Street, Pawling, NY 12564.

Table of Contents

Cover Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

INTRODUCTION

JANUARY 1

JANUARY 2

JANUARY 3

JANUARY 4

JANUARY 5

JANUARY 6

JANUARY 7

JANUARY 8

JANUARY 9

JANUARY 10

JANUARY 11

JANUARY 12

JANUARY 13

JANUARY 14

JANUARY 15

JANUARY 16

JANUARY 17

JANUARY 18

JANUARY 19

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FEBRUARY 1

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FEBRUARY 6

FEBRUARY 7

FEBRUARY 8

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FEBRUARY 25

FEBRUARY 26

FEBRUARY 27

FEBRUARY 28

FEBRUARY 29

MARCH 1

MARCH 2

MARCH 3

MARCH 4

MARCH 5

MARCH 6

MARCH 7

MARCH 8

MARCH 9

MARCH 10

MARCH 11

MARCH 12

MARCH 13

MARCH 14

MARCH 15

MARCH 16

MARCH 17

MARCH 18

MARCH 19

MARCH 20

MARCH 21

MARCH 22

MARCH 23

MARCH 24

MARCH 25

MARCH 26

MARCH 27

MARCH 28

MARCH 29

MARCH 30

MARCH 31

APRIL 1

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APRIL 3

APRIL 4

APRIL 5

APRIL 6

APRIL 7

APRIL 8

APRIL 9

APRIL 10

APRIL 11

APRIL 12

APRIL 13

APRIL 14

APRIL 15

APRIL 16

APRIL 17

APRIL 18

APRIL 19

APRIL 20

APRIL 21

APRIL 22

APRIL 23

APRIL 24

APRIL 25

APRIL 26

APRIL 27

APRIL 28

APRIL 29

APRIL 30

MAY 1

MAY 2

MAY 3

MAY 4

MAY 5

MAY 6

MAY 7

MAY 8

MAY 9

MAY 10

MAY 11

MAY 12

MAY 13

MAY 14

MAY 15

MAY 16

MAY 17

MAY 18

MAY 19

MAY 20

MAY 21

MAY 22

MAY 23

MAY 24

MAY 25

MAY 26

MAY 27

MAY 28

MAY 29

MAY 30

MAY 31

JUNE 1

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JUNE 7

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JUNE 18

JUNE 19

JUNE 20

JUNE 21

JUNE 22

JUNE 23

JUNE 24

JUNE 25

JUNE 26

JUNE 27

JUNE 28

JUNE 29

JUNE 30

JULY 1

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JULY 3

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JULY 10

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JULY 22

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JULY 24

JULY 25

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JULY 27

JULY 28

JULY 29

JULY 30

JULY 31

AUGUST 1

AUGUST 2

AUGUST 3

AUGUST 4

AUGUST 5

AUGUST 6

AUGUST 7

AUGUST 8

AUGUST 9

AUGUST 10

AUGUST 11

AUGUST 12

AUGUST 13

AUGUST 14

AUGUST 15

AUGUST 16

AUGUST 17

AUGUST 18

AUGUST 19

AUGUST 20

AUGUST 21

AUGUST 22

AUGUST 23

AUGUST 24

AUGUST 25

AUGUST 26

AUGUST 27

AUGUST 28

AUGUST 29

AUGUST 30

AUGUST 31

SEPTEMBER 1

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SEPTEMBER 3

SEPTEMBER 4

SEPTEMBER 5

SEPTEMBER 6

SEPTEMBER 7

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SEPTEMBER 24

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OCTOBER 1

OCTOBER 2

OCTOBER 3

OCTOBER 4

OCTOBER 5

OCTOBER 6

OCTOBER 7

OCTOBER 8

OCTOBER 9

OCTOBER 10

OCTOBER 11

OCTOBER 12

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OCTOBER 19

OCTOBER 20

OCTOBER 21

OCTOBER 22

OCTOBER 23

OCTOBER 24

OCTOBER 25

OCTOBER 26

OCTOBER 27

OCTOBER 28

OCTOBER 29

OCTOBER 30

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NOVEMBER 1

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DECEMBER 1

DECEMBER 2

DECEMBER 3

DECEMBER 4

DECEMBER 5

DECEMBER 6

DECEMBER 7

DECEMBER 8

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DECEMBER 19

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