Top 400 Norman Vincent Peale Quotes (2025 Update)
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351. “If you visualize a failure, you tend to create the conditions that produce failure. Visualize-believe-and thank God in advance.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

352. “Today any successful and competent businessman will employ the latest and best-tested methods in production, distribution, and administration. Many are discovering that one of the greatest of all efficiency methods is prayer power.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

353. “By success, of course, I do not mean that you may become rich, famous, or powerful for that does not, of necessity, represent achievement. Indeed, not infrequently, such individuals represent pathetic failure as persons.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

354. “Always maintain hopefulness, especially when the going is hard.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

355. “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

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

— Norman Vincent Peale

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

— Norman Vincent Peale

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

— Norman Vincent Peale

359. “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

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

— Norman Vincent Peale

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

— Norman Vincent Peale

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

— Norman Vincent Peale

363. “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

364. “Great issues develop from small beginnings.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

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

— Norman Vincent Peale

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

— Norman Vincent Peale

367. “Focus on people and the needs they have.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

368. “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

369. “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

370. “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

371. “And if the criticized person takes it quietly without rancor, not striking back but constantly loving, he will gather in friends faster than his critics can manufacture enemies.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

372. “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

373. “It’s a strange principle but it’s true, nevertheless, that those who give the most have the most of whatever they give.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

374. “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

375. “Worry affects the circulation, the heart, the glands, the whole nervous system, and profoundly affects the heart.” Robert Frost declared, “The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

376. “The secret is to fill your mind with thoughts of faith, confidence, and security. This will force out or expel all thoughts of doubt, all lack of confidence. To one man who for a long time had been haunted by insecurities and fears I suggested that he read through the Bible underlining in red pencil every statement it contains relative to courage and confidence. He also committed them to memory, in effect cramming his mind full of the healthiest, happiest, most powerful thoughts in the world.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

377. “Love Your Life And The LIfe Will Love You Back.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

378. “So always picture “success” no matter how badly things seem to be going at the moment.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

379. “No matter what mistakes you have made – no matter how you’ve messed things up – you can still make a new beginning. The person who fully realises this suffers less from the shock and pain of failure and sooner gets off to a new beginning.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

380. “Having asked God for forgiveness, accept release, then truly forgive yourself and turn your back definitely on the matter.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

381. “Don’t take tomorrow to bed with you.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

382. “You only lose energy when life becomes dull in your mind. Your mind gets bored and therefore tired of doing nothing.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

383. “Norman Vincent Peale “A peaceful mind generates power.” from his book The Powers of Positive Thinking.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

384. “Cherish your family connections. They are one of God’s greatest ways of demonstrating his love and fellowship.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

385. “Families, like individuals, are unique.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

386. “If Jesus were alive today, he’d probably be at the Super Bowl.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

387. “First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, I believe.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

388. “The Gateway to Christianity is not through an intricate labyrinth of dogma, but by a simple belief in the person of Christ.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

389. “Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

390. “Faced with the election of a Catholic, our culture is at stake.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

391. “Who decides whether you shall be happy or unhappy? You do!”

— Norman Vincent Peale

392. “Change yourself and your work will seem different.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

393. “The mind quickly responds to teaching and discipline. You can make the mind give you back anything you want.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

394. “The word “no” denotes a shutting of the door. It means failure, defeat, delay. But spell in backwards and take new hope, for backwards it spells “on.””

— Norman Vincent Peale

395. “The most vital, creative, and positive thoughts are those stated in the Bible. Its words are alive and form powerful thought processes.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

396. “You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

397. “I’ve got great faith in the essential fairness and decency – you may say goodness – of the human being.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

398. “The Bible – the wisest document ever known in human existence, which defies the ravages of time and change because it contains the truth that cannot be changed or invalidated.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

399. “Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

400. “You do not need to let anything get you down, but if you are down you certainly need not let anything keep you down.”

— Norman Vincent Peale