Top 400 Norman Vincent Peale Quotes (2026 Update)
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251. “Miracles are of all sizes. And if you start believing in little miracles, you can work up to the bigger ones.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

252. “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

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

— Norman Vincent Peale

254. “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

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

— Norman Vincent Peale

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

— Norman Vincent Peale

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

— Norman Vincent Peale

258. “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

259. “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

260. “If there is no fun in it, something is wrong with all you are doing.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

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261. “Whatever you are doing in the game of life, give it all you’ve got.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

262. “Every individual forms his own estimate of himself and that basic estimate goes far toward determining what he becomes.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

263. “The one person who most blocks you from a full, happy, and successful life is you.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

264. “Practice “seeing” yourself, not as weak, wishy-washy and vascillating, but as strong, controlled, purposeful.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

265. “Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun. Change your thoughts and you change your world.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

266. “Religion does not blithely promise some sort of no-trouble, no-problem, no-poverty world; but rather a spirit, a power, an enthusiasm that endows everyone with the ability to overcome any and all of it.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

267. “Jesus is not a memory. He is an actual, contemporary, reachable Person. He is the living Christ, who has the power to enter into people’s lives and change and lift them up.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

268. “If you visualize a failure, you tend to create the conditions that produce failure. Visualize-believe-and thank God in advance.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

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

— Norman Vincent Peale

270. “A primary method for gaining a mind of full peace is to practice emptying the mind.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

271. “Americans are so tense and keyed up that it is impossible even to put them to sleep with a sermon.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

272. “I truly believe that if we keep telling the Christmas story, singing the Christmas songs, and living the Christmas spirit, we can bring joy and happiness and peace to this world.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

273. “Only the person who risks is truly free. A man’s conquest of himself dwarfs the conquest of Mt. Everest.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

274. “The capacity to be either happy or unhappy is determined by the manner in which you react to whatever happens.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

275. “People who are able to turn criticism into a positive situation are going to attract friends.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

276. “You can make yourself enthusiastic by affirming enthusiasm and by thinking, talking, acting enthusiastic.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

277. “Try to see the joyful side of life. One must see the pain of life with clear eyes, and help all he can; but there is also lots of joy, and on should see that, too.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

278. “Getting along with the gang in one place is not any harder than getting along in another. It depends about 98 percent on your own behavior.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

279. “Religious faith may very well be considered a science, for it responds invariably to certain formulae. Perform the technique of faith according to the laws which have been proved workable in human experience and you will always get a result of power.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

280. “Begin where you are. Begin now.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

281. “Think, the successful idea is always in your mind. Think it out.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

282. “Grasp a difficulty by the “blade” and it cuts; grasp it by the “handle” and you can use it constructively.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

283. “We are beginning to comprehend a basic truth hitherto neglected, that our physical condition is determined very largely by our emotional condition, and our emotional life is profoundly regulated by our thought life.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

284. “Deep within the individual is a vast reservoir of untapped power awaiting to be used. no person can have the use of all this potential until he learns to know his or her own self. the trouble with many people is that they got through life thinking and writing themselves off as ordinary commonplace persons. having no proper belief in themselves they live aimless and erratic lives largely because they never realize what their lives really can be or what they can become.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

285. “Great issues develop from small beginnings.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

286. “The only figure in history who endures is Jesus.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

287. “No one can ever overcome anything until his thoughts are creative and positive.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

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

— Norman Vincent Peale

289. “Forget yourself! Think courage.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

290. “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.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

291. “Don’t duck the most difficult problems. That just ensures that the hardest part will be left when you are most tired. Get the big one done – it’s downhill from then on.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

292. “Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.” Practice confidence and faith and your fears and insecurities will soon have no power over you.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

293. “Knowing how to help people is an art and the person who knows how to do it can always know that he will have the lasting affection of many.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

294. “Practice loving people. It is true that this requires effort and continued practice, for some are not very lovable, or so it seems – with emphasis on seems. Every person has lovable qualities when you really learn to know him.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

295. “Start looking for joy and you’ll find it.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

296. “Any occupation, any job has excitement in it if you have some excitement in you.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

297. “No matter how many worries and anxieties harass you, remember always that they are removable. Enthusiasm with its immense mental and spiritual power can cancel out all fear.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

298. “The words we speak have a direct and definite effect upon our thoughts. Thoughts create words, for words are the vehicles of ideas. But words also affect thoughts and help to condition if not to create attitudes. In fact, what often passes for thinking starts with talk.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

299. “A man who is self-reliant, positive, optimistic, and undertakes his work with the assurance of success magnetizes his condition. He draws to himself the creative powers of the universe.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

300. “What you can image, you will be, in the long run.”

— Norman Vincent Peale