Top 400 Norman Vincent Peale Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “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.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

102. “Before you go to sleep, run over your personal world mentally and thank God for everyone and everything.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

103. “Take a new look at your present “impossible.” Consider positive ways to handle it.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

104. “Imagination is the true magic carpet.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

105. “When learning stops, decay sets in.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

106. “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.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

107. “I expect the best and with God’s help will attain the best.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

108. “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

109. “Stop resisting your problems so furiously in your mind. Stop struggling to solve them. If you do that, a great sense of peace followed by a great sense of power will come to you.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

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

— Norman Vincent Peale

111. “There is only one group of people who do not have problems, and they are all dead. Problems are a sign of life, so the more problems you have, the more alive you are.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

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

— Norman Vincent Peale

113. “You have to picturize, prayerize and actualize.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

114. “The man who lives for himself is a failure; the man who lives for others has achieved true success.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

115. “Promise yourself success at the beginning of each day, and you’ll be surprised how often things will turn out that way.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

116. “Become a possibilitarian.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

117. “Talk peaceful to be peaceful.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

118. “When every physical and mental resources is focused, one’s power to solve a problem multiplies tremendously.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

119. “The controlled person is a powerful person. He who always keeps his head will get ahead.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

120. “If you want a quality, act as if you already have it. If you want to be courageous, act as if you were – and as you act and persevere in acting, so you tend to become.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

121. “I believe there are two sides to the phenomenon known as death, this side where we live, and the other side where we shall continue to live. Eternity does not start ith death. We are in eternity now.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

122. “A positive thinker does not refuse to recognize the negative; he refuses to dwell on it.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

123. “The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

124. “Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

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

— Norman Vincent Peale

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

— Norman Vincent Peale

127. “Positive thinking is how you think about a problem. Enthusiasm is how you feel about a problem. The two together determine what you do about a problem.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

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

— Norman Vincent Peale

129. “God is with me, helping me.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

130. “Make a true estimate of your own ability, then raise it ten per cent.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

131. “Basil King once said, “Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

132. “The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

133. “Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

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

— Norman Vincent Peale

135. “Expect the best, not the worst, and you will attain your heart’s desire.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

136. “Never think negatively, for the negative thinker does a very dangerous thing. He pumps out negative thoughts into the world around him and thus activates the world negatively.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

137. “Know that you yourself are a miracle.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

138. “Optimism is a philosophy based on the belief that basically life is good, that, in the long run, the good in life overbalances the evil.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

139. “Believe you are defeated, believe it long enough, and it is likely to become a fact.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

140. “You become a worrier by practicing worry. 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.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

141. “Once we roared like lions for liberty; now we bleat like sheep for security! The solution for America’s problem is not in terms of big government, but it is in big men over whom nobody stands in control but God.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

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

— Norman Vincent Peale

143. “The secret of the law of abundance is this: In order to receive and appreciate the good things of life, you must first give.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

144. “Knock the T off the word can’t. You can do anything – ANYTHING – if you think you can!”

— Norman Vincent Peale

145. “Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

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

— Norman Vincent Peale

147. “Remind yourself that God is with you and nothing can defeat him.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

148. “Think enthusiastically about everything; but especially about your job. If you do so, you’ll put a touch of glory in your life. If you love your job with enthusiasm, you’ll shake it to pieces.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

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

— Norman Vincent Peale

150. “Frequently remind yourself that God is with you, that He will never fail you, that you can count upon him. Say these words, “God is with me, helping me.””

— Norman Vincent Peale