Top 400 Norman Vincent Peale Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “When you get up in the morning, you have two choices – either to be happy or to be unhappy. Just choose to be happy.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

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

— Norman Vincent Peale

153. “Go forward confidently, energetically attacking problems, expecting favorable outcomes.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

154. “Confidently receive God’s abundant blessings. Think abundance, prosperity, and the best of everything.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

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

— Norman Vincent Peale

156. “You can do amazing things if you have strong faith, deep desire, and just hang in there.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

157. “Make sure you pay attention to what’s right with your life, not just what’s wrong.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

158. “When a person applies enthusiasm to his job, the job will itself become alive with exciting new possibilities.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

159. “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.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

160. “Optimism, when applied to your life, develops strength and peace within you.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

161. “Fear is strong, but faith is stronger yet.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

162. “Be an all-out, not a hold-out.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

163. “Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

164. “Nothing during the year is so impressively convincing as the vision Christmas brings of what this world would be if love became the daily practice of human beings.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

165. “Your enthusiasm will be infectious, stimulating and attractive to others. They will love you for it They will go for you and with you.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

166. “Life is a blend of laughter and tears, a combination of rain and sunshine.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

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

— Norman Vincent Peale

168. “The Bible tells us that the sins of the fathers are passed to succeeding generations. The virtues of the fathers can be passed along, too.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

169. “When you affirm big, believe big and pray big, big things happen.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

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

— Norman Vincent Peale

171. “The bigger your problems, the bigger your prayer should be.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

172. “Good intentions are no substitute for obedience.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

173. “Ask for what you want, but be willing to take what God gives you. It may be better than what you asked for.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

174. “Happiness consists not in having, but of being, not of possessing, but of enjoying. It is the warm glow of a heart at peace with itself.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

175. “Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

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

— Norman Vincent Peale

177. “Not every day can be an easy one, nor every day fully happy; but even a day of tough going and difficulty can be a good day.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

178. “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.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

179. “Faith supplies staying power. Anyone can keep going when the going is good, but some extra ingredient is needed to keep you fighting when it seems that everything is against you.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

180. “What seems impossible one minute becomes, through faith, possible the next.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

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

— Norman Vincent Peale

182. “God loves you. God doesn’t want anyone to be hungry and oppressed. He just puts his big arms around everybody and hugs them up against himself.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

183. “As long as enthusiasm holds out, so will new opportunities.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

184. “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.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

185. “The big question isn’t whether you have problems; the all-important factor is your attitude toward problems. How you think of the problem is more important than the problem itself.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

186. “It takes struggle, a goal and enthusiasm to make a champion.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

187. “When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

188. “When we start focusing on things we can do and don’t think so much about the things we can’t do, things really start to happen.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

189. “Prayerize, visualize, actualize – that is the formula for successful imaging.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

190. “Americans used to roar like lions for liberty; now we bleat like sheep for security.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

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

— Norman Vincent Peale

192. “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

193. “Anybody can do just about anything with himself that he really wants to and makes up his mind to do. We are all capable of greater things than we realize.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

194. “Prayer is more than words. It’s listening, seeing and feeling.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

195. “No matter how dark things become, someone is always with you – and that someone is God. He helps by giving you peace and a positive mental attitude.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

196. “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.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

197. “Try, really try. Think, really think. Believe, really believe.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

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

— Norman Vincent Peale

199. “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.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

200. “Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.”

— Norman Vincent Peale