Top 400 Norman Vincent Peale Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented, and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful. Such attitudes are active and definite factors in creating satisfactory conditions. Watch your manner of speech then if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

202. “If you are not getting as much from life as you want to, then examine the state of your enthusiasm.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

203. “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.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

204. “Go out of your way to talk optimistically about everything.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

205. “Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

206. “Self-knowledge is the beginning of self-correction.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

207. “The antidote to frustration is a calm faith, not in your own cleverness, or in hard toil, but in God’s guidance.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

208. “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.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

209. “The hammer shatters glass but forges steel.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

210. “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.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

211. “I truly believe that the individual who learns to practice thanksgiving activates within himself and around himself continuous victories and blessings from God.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

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

— Norman Vincent Peale

213. “Good will cannot flow toward you unless it flows from you.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

214. “Fear knocked at the door. Faith answered. No one was there.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

215. “You will soon break the bow if you keep it always stretched.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

216. “And if the mind thinks with a believing attitude one can do amazing things.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

217. “Stress the thought of plenty. Thoughts of plenty help create plenty.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

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

— Norman Vincent Peale

219. “What is hope? Hope is wishing for a thing to come true; faith is believing that it will come true.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

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

— Norman Vincent Peale

221. “When you discover the wonder of giving, you will wonder how you could have lived so long in any other way.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

222. “Happiness will never come if it’s a goal in itself; happiness is a by-product of a commitment of worthy causes.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

223. “Do not let circumstances defeat you. You can if you think you can.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

224. “A true apology is more than just aknowledgment of a mistake. It is recognition that something you have said or done has damaged a relationship and that you care enough about the relationship to want it repaired and restored.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

225. “What the mind can conceive and believe, and the heart desire, you can achieve.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

226. “Jesus made it clear that the most important thing in the world is our relationship to God and to others. When we achieve that, everything good will follow.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

227. “Avoid arguments, but whenever a negative attitude is expressed, counter with a positive and optimistic opinion.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

228. “Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don’t have any problems, you don’t get any seeds.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

229. “The power of the Plus Factor is potential but it is not self-activating. It is latent in human beings and will remain latent until it is activated.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

230. “There are some things you can’t learn from others. You have to pass through the fire.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

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

— Norman Vincent Peale

232. “We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

233. “You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

234. “Dare to be what you ought to be, dare to be what you dream to be, dare to be the finest you can be. The more you dare, the surer you will be of gaining just what you dare!”

— Norman Vincent Peale

235. “One of the simplest things about all facts of life is that to get where you want to go, you must keep on keeping on.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

236. “If you worry, you are a worrier because your mind is saturated with worry thoughts. To counteract these, mark every passage in your Bible that speaks of faith, hope, and courage.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

237. “Listen to the magic word of motivation and you will hear it. Then the sky is the limit.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

238. “If you can only believe! If you will only believe! Then nothing, nothing, will be impossible for you! That is the truth and the Gospel, and it is wonderful. It’s the good news.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

239. “Believe and create is a basic fact of successful living.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

240. “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.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

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

— Norman Vincent Peale

242. “A wish is an attitude of mind to which wings have been attached. You wish and you dream, and your whole nature focuses to bring your wishes and dreams to pass.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

243. “Almighty God freely bestows the good things in this world in proportion to a person’s mental readiness to receive.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

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

— Norman Vincent Peale

245. “Practice excited thinking until you become excited and exciting.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

246. “And what marvelous things there are for which to be grateful in God’s great Creation!”

— Norman Vincent Peale

247. “Believe you can, and you can. Belief is one of the most powerful of all problem dissolvers. When you believe that a difficulty can be overcome, you are more than halfway to victory over it already.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

248. “Know what you want and believe that you can have it.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

249. “I firmly believe that when you die you will enter immediately into another life. They who have gone before us are alive in one form of life and we in another.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

250. “A vital part of the happiness formula is self-discipline. Whoever conquers himself knows deep happiness that fills the heart with joy.”

— Norman Vincent Peale