Top 400 Norman Vincent Peale Quotes (2025 Update)
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301. “Realize that there are not hopeless situations; there are only people who take hopeless attitudes.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

302. “Have absolutely no sense of guilt about being happy and successful if you operate honestly and with a sense of social responsibility.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

303. “The secret of life isn’t what happens to you but what you do with what happens to you.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

304. “Infantile people complain and say that God is cruel or that there is no God. Mature people, however, know that there is wisdom and sometimes an eternal kindness in God’s refusals.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

305. “Lots of people limit their possibilities by giving up easily. Never tell yourself this is too much for me. It’s no use. I can’t go on. If you do you’re licked, and by your own thinking too. Keep believing and keep on keeping on.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

306. “To cure worry, spend fifteen minutes daily filling your mind full of God. Worry is just a very bad mental habit. You can change any habit with God’s help.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

307. “You are greater than anything that can happen to you. In a big and terrifying crisis, people find within themselves a power and a strength and also a wisdom they had no idea they possessed.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

308. “Cultivate will power, that massive creative force that God the creator built into you. Do not let it remain flabby but strengthen it by use and exercise.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

309. “Keep your mental and spiritual contact points cleaned so that God can operate through your mind.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

310. “I believe absolutely and certainly that, when you die, you will meet your loved ones and know them and be reunited with them, never to be separated again.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

311. “Trouble is here. It is for a purpose. Use it for the purpose for which it was intended – to help you grow. Thank God for your troubles.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

312. “To become a happy person have a clean soul, eyes that see romance in the commonplace, a child’s heart, and spiritual simplicity.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

313. “Believe that you are bigger than your difficulties, for you are, indeed.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

314. “To have a mind full of peace, merely fill it full of peace. It’s as simple as that.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

315. “Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

316. “Always remember that problems contain values that have improvement potential.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

317. “We live in the midst of the greatest scientific civilization in the history of the world. But the greatest wisdom walking our streets is not in any laboratory scientist, but the wisdom of Jesus Christ.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

318. “Only the believers pick up the prizes in life.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

319. “Never use the word “impossible” seriously again. Toss it into the verbal wastebucket.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

320. “Do not exclusively say your prayers in the form of asking God for something. The prayer of thanksgiving is much more powerful.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

321. “Remember that “Help us grow this grass” is a far more effective sign than “Keep off the grass”.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

322. “Don’t tense up no matter what, for you only close off creative power when you do.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

323. “We build up the feeling of insecurity or security by how we think. If in our thoughts we constantly fix attention upon sinister expectations of dire events that might happen, the result will be constantly to feel insecure. And what is even more serious is the tendency to create, by the power of thought, the very condition we fear.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

324. “The more you venture to live greatly, the more you will find within you what it takes to get on top of the things and stay there.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

325. “You don’t have to be tired and bored. Get interested in something. Get absolutely enthralled in something. Throw yourself into it with abandon.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

326. “Help other people to cope with their problems, and your own will be easier to cope with.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

327. “Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You’ll find they haven’t half the strength you think they have.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

328. “Go to inspirational meetings, get to know men and women who are doing inspiring things. Above all, run as hard as you can from the cynics and gripers and the negativists. They are not going anywhere. You are.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

329. “Nothing can stand in the way of the man who focuses his entire self on a problem.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

330. “When the student is ready, the messenger appears.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

331. “Our problem is to become acquainted with our own selves, letting our personalities loose upon the world for the sheer adventure of their full development and in the positive hope that they may in their own way lift the level of humanity.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

332. “The individual who knows the score about life sees difficulties as opportunities.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

333. “We’ve all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it’s more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

334. “When we have peace in our hearts, we also have love in our hearts and good will toward all men.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

335. “Just a moment ago nature put on one of its most spectacular demonstrations.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

336. “Hope is wanting something so eagerly that-in spite of all the evidence that you’re not going to get it-you go right on wanting it.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

337. “Thoughts and words form your mental image. And since we become what we picture be sure your thoughts and words express prosperity and blessing rather than poverty and defeat.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

338. “Make a list of your friends and determine who is the most positive thinker among them and deliberately cultivate his society.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

339. “The greatest measure of a human being isn’t how he handles himself when things are going well, but how he handles himself when things are going badly, when defeat comes.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

340. “There are no circumstances in your life where God will not stand will not stand with you and help you, no matter what the trouble may be.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

341. “The whole trend and quality of anyone’s life is determined in the long run by the choices that are made.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

342. “Cut the “im” out of impossible, leading that dynamic word standing out free and clear-possible.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

343. “One of the greatest of all principles is that men can do what they think they can do.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

344. “People fail to understand that unless they are themselves willing to give, they will never receive.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

345. “Fear can infect us early in life until eventually it cuts a deep groove of apprehension in all our thinking. To counteract it, let faith, hope and courage enter your thinking. Fear is strong, but faith is stronger yet.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

346. “It is indeed possible for those who have the will, courage and faith.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

347. “The sure way to success is so simple, but it requires character, guts, persistence, the mastery of lower jobs to be ready for the better ones.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

348. “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

349. “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

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

— Norman Vincent Peale