Top 400 Norman Vincent Peale Quotes (2026 Update)
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351. “To have a mind full of peace, merely fill it full of peace. It’s as simple as that.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

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

— Norman Vincent Peale

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

— Norman Vincent Peale

354. “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

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

— Norman Vincent Peale

356. “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

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

— Norman Vincent Peale

358. “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

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

— Norman Vincent Peale

360. “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

361. “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

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

— Norman Vincent Peale

363. “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

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

— Norman Vincent Peale

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

— Norman Vincent Peale

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

— Norman Vincent Peale

367. “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

368. “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

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

— Norman Vincent Peale

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

— Norman Vincent Peale

371. “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

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

— Norman Vincent Peale

373. “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

374. “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

375. “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

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

— Norman Vincent Peale

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

— Norman Vincent Peale

378. “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

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379. “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

380. “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

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

— Norman Vincent Peale

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

— Norman Vincent Peale

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

— Norman Vincent Peale

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

— Norman Vincent Peale

385. “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

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

— Norman Vincent Peale

387. “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

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

— Norman Vincent Peale

389. “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

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

— Norman Vincent Peale

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

— Norman Vincent Peale

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

— Norman Vincent Peale

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

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

— Norman Vincent Peale

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

— Norman Vincent Peale

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

— Norman Vincent Peale

399. “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

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

— Norman Vincent Peale

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