The Founder Of Positive Thinking
Dr. Norman Vincent Peale was one of the foremost motivational speakers of the twentieth century. For more than five decades he was the beloved pastor of Marble Collegiate Church in New York City, and he spoke to an average of 100 groups a year until he was 93.
Guideposts, the organization he co-founded with his wife, Ruth Stafford Peale, remains unified around a mission to help people from all walks of life achieve their maximum personal and spiritual potential. To bring his message to as many people as possible, Dr. Peale wrote 46 books, including the famous bestseller, The Power of Positive Thinking, first published in 1952. This inspirational book became an international phenomenon and stayed on The New York Times bestseller list for 98 consecutive weeks. Still popular today, the book has sold more than 20 million copies in 42 languages.
Throughout his career, Dr. Peale emphasized the individual's extraordinary ability to overcome life's problems and seize its opportunities through the application of Positive Thinking and faith in daily life. Together with Dr. Smiley Blanton, he founded The Blanton-Peale Institute, a multi-faith, non-sectarian educational and service organization that brings together the insights of the evolving fields of psychiatry and psychotherapy with the wisdom of the great spiritual traditions.
Dr. Peale died at his home in Pawling, New York, on Christmas Eve, 1993. He is revered today because his consistent message continues to show that Positive Thinking and faith work powerfully in ordinary lives. By those who knew him, Dr. Peale is remembered best for one simple quality … his unconditional love of people.
The Peale Center for Positive Thinking has transformed his philosophy into a series of innovative programs and services that can be used to help you become a more positive person and change your life.
"If you are open to it, it will rush in like a mighty tide. It is there for anybody under any circumstances or in any condition."
-- Dr. Norman Vincent Peale