110+ Norman Vincent Peale Quotes On Positive Thinking, Happiness And Inspiring

Norman Vincent Peale was an American Clergyman, author and motivational speaker. He is best known for his work in popularizing the concept of positive thinking, especially through his best-selling book The Power of Positive Thinking. He was also the founder of the magazine Guideposts, and was the pastor of Marble Collegiate Church in New York City from 1932 until his death in 1993. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Norman Vincent Peale on positive thinking, happiness, inspiring.

Top 10 Norman Vincent Peale Quotes

1. Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
2. Change your thoughts and you change your world.
3. People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
4. Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.
5. A positive thinker does not refuse to recognize the negative; he refuses to dwell on it. Positive thinking is a form of thought which habitually looks for the best results from the worst conditions
6. If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.
7. 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.
8. Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
9. Life's blows cannot break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm.
10. Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.

Norman Vincent Peale Image Quotes

Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory. — Norman Vincent Peale

Live your life and forget your age. — Norman Vincent Peale

The cyclone derives its powers from a calm center. So does a person. — Norman Vincent Peale

It's always too early to quit. — Norman Vincent Peale

Norman Vincent Peale Short Quotes

• The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
• The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
• The cyclone derives its powers from a calm center. So does a person.
• A positive thinker does not refuse to recognize the negative; he refuses to dwell on it.
• The only people who don't have problems are in a cemetery.
• It's always too early to quit.
• We tend to get what we expect.
• Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.
• We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.
• In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it.

Norman Vincent Peale Quotes About Positive Thinking

The way to happiness: Keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Scatter sunshine, forget self, think of others. Try this for a week and you will be surprised. — Norman Vincent Peale

How you think about a problem is more important than the problem itself. So always think positively. — Norman Vincent Peale

There is a basic law that like attracts like. Negative thinking definitely attracts negative results. Conversely, if a person habitually thinks optimistically and hopefully, his positive thinking sets in motion creative forces - and success instead of eluding him flows toward him. — Norman Vincent Peale

Yesterday ended last night. Every day is a new beginning. Learn the skill of forgetting. And move on. — Norman Vincent Peale

Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. — Norman Vincent Peale

We are all capable of greater things than we realize. — Norman Vincent Peale

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. — Norman Vincent Peale

Think health, eat sparingly, exercise regularly, walk a lot, and think positively about yourself. — Norman Vincent Peale

Negative thinking definitely attracts negative results. — Norman Vincent Peale

Think joy, talk joy, practice joy, share joy, saturate your mind with joy, and you will have the time of your life today and every day all your life. — Norman Vincent Peale

Norman Vincent Peale Quotes About Happiness

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

Make a mental list of happy thoughts and pass them through your mind several times every day. — Norman Vincent Peale

Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit. — Norman Vincent Peale

If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal. — Norman Vincent Peale

You must never conclude, even though everything goes wrong, that you cannot succeed. Even at the worst there is a way out, a hidden secret that can turn failure into success and despair into happiness. No situation is so dark that there is not a ray of light — Norman Vincent Peale

Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory. — Norman Vincent Peale

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

Let a series of happy thoughts run through your mind. They will show on your face. — Norman Vincent Peale

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

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

Norman Vincent Peale Quotes About Inspiring

Christmas is the season of joy, of holiday greetings exchanged, of gift-giving,and of families united. — Norman Vincent Peale

If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up. — Norman Vincent Peale

Do not build up obstacles in your imagination. Difficulties must be studied and dealt with, but they must not be magnfiied by fear — Norman Vincent Peale

Throw back the shoulders, let the heart sing, let the eyes flash, let the mind be lifted up, look upward and say to yourself ... nothing is impossible! — Norman Vincent Peale

Develop serenity and quiet attitudes through your conversation. Depending upon the words we use and the tone in which we use them, we can talk ourselves into being nervous, high-strung, and upset. By our speech, we can also achieve quiet reactions. Talk peaceful to be peaceful. — Norman Vincent Peale

The greatest risk in life is to risk nothing. The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing and becomes nothing. — Norman Vincent Peale

A peaceful mind generates power. — Norman Vincent Peale

Think excitement, talk excitement, act out excitement, and you are bound to become an excited person. — Norman Vincent Peale

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

The great secret of getting what you want from life is to know whay you want and believe you can have it. Always do something for others, then ask God to help you get at it. — Norman Vincent Peale

Norman Vincent Peale Quotes About Encouraging

Take a new look at your present "impossible." Consider positive ways to handle it. — Norman Vincent Peale

Always remember, there is more strength in you than you ever realized or even imagined. Certainly nothing can keep you down if you are determined to get on top of things and stay there. — Norman Vincent Peale

Often we have no choice about doing things, but we can always choose how to do them. — Norman Vincent Peale

When we start focusing on things we can do and don't think so much about the things we can't do, things really start to happen — Norman Vincent Peale

Norman Vincent Peale Quotes About Life

Live your life and forget your age. — Norman Vincent Peale

If you have zest and enthusiasm you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind. — Norman Vincent Peale

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

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

Resentment or grudges do no harm to the person against whom you hold these feelings but every day and every night of your life, they are eating at you. — Norman Vincent Peale

Plant seeds of expectation in your mind; cultivate thoughts that anticipate achievement. Believe in yourself as being capable of overcoming all obstacles and weaknesses. — Norman Vincent Peale

Through persistence, self-knowledge, prayer, commitment, optimism, a resolute trust in God and the building of your own personal moral strength, you can enjoy the blessings of a deeper faith and face the difficulties of life with courage and confidence. — Norman Vincent Peale

Make a list of your friends and determine who is the most positive thinker among them and deliberately cultivate his society. — Norman Vincent Peale

The whole trend and quality of anyone's life is determined in the long run by the choices that are made. — Norman Vincent Peale

Silence fertilizes the deep place where personality grows. A life with a peaceful center can weather all storms. — Norman Vincent Peale

Norman Vincent Peale Quotes About Mind

Medication is of course important but do not conclude that a pill dissolving in your stomach is necessarily more powerful than a healing thought in your mind. — Norman Vincent Peale

Problems are to the mind what exercise is to the muscles, they toughen and make strong. — Norman Vincent Peale

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

Learn to relax. Your body is precious, as it houses your mind and spirit. Inner peace begins with a relaxed body. — Norman Vincent Peale

The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command to deliver mental resources. — Norman Vincent Peale

Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture... Do not build up obstacles in your imagination. — Norman Vincent Peale

The positive thinker is a hard-headed, tough-minded, and factual realist. He sees all the difficulties clearly... which is more than can be said for the average negative thinker. But he sees more than difficulties - he tries to see the solutions of those difficulties. — Norman Vincent Peale

Old unhealthy thoughts can block off inspiration and motivation. Dropping them releases a strong flow of power through the mind. — Norman Vincent Peale

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

Every night empty your mind of unhappy thoughts as you empty your pockets and come alive. — Norman Vincent Peale

Norman Vincent Peale Quotes About Enthusiasm

There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment. — Norman Vincent Peale

Fill the day with enthusiasm. Give the day all you've got and it will give you all it's got, which will be plenty. — Norman Vincent Peale

It takes struggle, a goal and enthusiasm to make a champion. — Norman Vincent Peale

Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do. — Norman Vincent Peale

Life is not all fun and easy going. Far from it; there are many rough times. But, sadly, we too often let the hard times dull our enthusiasm. And that is dangerous, if not fatal, to our lives. — Norman Vincent Peale

Think enthusiastically about everything; but especially about your job. If you do so, you'll put a touch of glory in your life. If you love your job with enthusiasm, you'll shake it to pieces. — Norman Vincent Peale

Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all that you do. It tones up your physical vitality and gives warmth to all your personal relationships. When you associate with enthusiasm long enough it grabs you and takes over within you. — Norman Vincent Peale

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

As long as enthusiasm holds out, so will new opportunities. — Norman Vincent Peale

When a person applies enthusiasm to his job, the job will itself become alive with exciting new possibilities. — Norman Vincent Peale

Norman Vincent Peale Quotes About World

The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results. — Norman Vincent Peale

If you expect the best, you will be the best. Learn to use one of the most powerful laws in this world; change your mental habits to belief instead of disbelief. Learn to expect, not to doubt. In so doing, you bring everything into the realm of possibility. — Norman Vincent Peale

Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful. — Norman Vincent Peale

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

There are two primary forces in this world, fear and faith. Fear can move you to destructiveness or sickness or failure. Only in rare instances will it motivate you to accomplishment. But faith is a greater force. Faith can drive itself into your consciousness and set you free from fear forever. — Norman Vincent Peale

We reach the goal not by the stairs, but by the lift..... God pledges his promised righteousness to those who will stop trying to save themselves. Change your thoughts and you change your world. — Norman Vincent Peale

Nothing during the year is so impressively convincing as the vision Christmas brings of what this world would be if love became the daily practice of human beings. — Norman Vincent Peale

There is nothing in life so difficult that it cannot be overcome. This faith can move mountains. It can change people. It can change the world. You can survive all the great storms in your life — Norman Vincent Peale

Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously. — Norman Vincent Peale

Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun. Change your thoughts and you change your world. — Norman Vincent Peale

Norman Vincent Peale Quotes About Belief

First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, I believe, three times. — Norman Vincent Peale

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

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

Know what you want and believe that you can have it. — Norman Vincent Peale

Optimism is a philosophy based on the belief that basically life is good, that, in the long run, the good in life overbalances the evil. — Norman Vincent Peale

When you affirm big, believe big and pray big, big things happen. — Norman Vincent Peale

Norman Vincent Peale Famous Quotes And Sayings

Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory. — Norman Vincent Peale

Live your life and forget your age. — Norman Vincent Peale

Positive Thinkers get positive results because they appreciate the inestimable value of a day, this day, not the next day, but this day, and every day. Today offers at least sixteen waking hours that may be crammed FULL of opportunity, joy, excitement, and achievement. — Norman Vincent Peale

The best way to forget your own problems is to help someone else solve theirs. The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live. The best way to respond to wrong is to do what's right. The better we know ourselves the less we'll criticize others. The bigger your problems, the bigger your prayer should be. — Norman Vincent Peale

Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there. — Norman Vincent Peale

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

Think excitement, talk excitement, act out excitement, and you are bound to become an excited person. Life will take on a new nest, deeper interest and greater meaning. You can think, talk and act yourself into dullness or into monotony or into unhappiness. By the same process you can build up inspiration, excitement and surging depth of joy. — Norman Vincent Peale

Every person, if he is to have mental health and live successfully, must move away from past failures and mistakes and go forward without letting them be a weight upon him. The art of forgetting is absolutely necessary. — Norman Vincent Peale

It's always too early to quit. — Norman Vincent Peale

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities. Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy. But with self-confidence you can succeed. A sense of inferiority and inadequacy interferes with the attainment of your hopes, but self-confidence leads to self-realization and successful achievement. — Norman Vincent Peale

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

Today remind yourself that nothing is too good to be true. Your great hopes can be realized. Your most wonderful dreams can come true. All that you really need, you can have. An incredible goodness is operating on your behalf. If you are living a paltry life, resolve to stop it today. Expect great things to happen. — Norman Vincent Peale

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are. — Norman Vincent Peale

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

Four things for success: work and pray, think and believe. — Norman Vincent Peale

It is a fact that you project what you are. — Norman Vincent Peale

Whatever your problem, no matter how difficult, you can release spiritual power sufficient to solve your problem. The secret is--pray and believe. — Norman Vincent Peale

Don't take tomorrow to bed with you. — Norman Vincent Peale

Faith is the most powerful of all forces operating in humanity and when you have it in depth nothing can get you down. — Norman Vincent Peale

A basic law: the more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for. — Norman Vincent Peale

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

If you put off everything till you're sure of it, you'll never get anything done. — Norman Vincent Peale

Believe you are defeated, believe it long enough, and it is likely to become a fact. — Norman Vincent Peale

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

When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him. — Norman Vincent Peale

One of the basic laws of human existence is: find yourself, know yourself, be yourself. — Norman Vincent Peale

Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have. — Norman Vincent Peale

I believe in the power of Jesus Christ to resolve any difficulty, to remove any weakness, to heal any disease. — Norman Vincent Peale

Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow. — Norman Vincent Peale

Have great hopes and dare to go all out for them. Have great dreams and dare to live them. Have tremendous expectations and believe in them. — Norman Vincent Peale

Nothing is more confusing than people who give good advice but set a bad example. — Norman Vincent Peale

If you've been full of error and defeat, be done with it. Say, "By God's grace, I'm done with it," and take charge of yourself like never before." — Norman Vincent Peale

Remind yourself that God is with you and nothing can defeat him. — Norman Vincent Peale

God never made anyone else exactly like you, and he never will again. Thank him for yourself and then for all the rest of his glorious handiwork. — Norman Vincent Peale

Imagination is the true magic carpet. — Norman Vincent Peale

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. — Norman Vincent Peale

Dwelling on negative thoughts is like fertilizing weeds. — Norman Vincent Peale

Never react emotionally to criticism. Analyze yourself to determine whether it is justified. If it is, correct yourself. Otherwise, go on about your business. — Norman Vincent Peale

Forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future. Give everyone a smile. Spend so much time improving yourself that you have no time left to criticize others. Be too big for worry and too noble for anger. — Norman Vincent Peale

Faith supplies staying power. Anyone can keep going when the going is good, but some extra ingredient is needed to keep you fighting when it seems that everything is against you — Norman Vincent Peale

To be successful is to be helpful, caring and constructive, to make everything and everyone you touch a little bit better. — Norman Vincent Peale

Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it yourself. In giving it, you will accumulate a deposit of joy greater than you ever believed possible. — Norman Vincent Peale

When a problem comes along, study it until you are completely knowledgeable. Then find that weak spot, break the problem apart, and the rest will be easy. — Norman Vincent Peale

When the student is ready, the messenger appears. — Norman Vincent Peale

Can you go a whole day with joy in your heart? Joy and vitality are an inseparable combination. Joy is not concerned with having fun; it is an inner spiritual quality that overcomes despair, pain and defeat. You cannot turn on joy like an electric light, but you can prepare yourself to receive it. — Norman Vincent Peale

Frequently remind yourself that God is with you, that He will never fail you, that you can count upon him. Say these words, "God is with me, helping me." — Norman Vincent Peale

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

Good will cannot flow toward you unless it flows from you. — Norman Vincent Peale

Life Lessons by Norman Vincent Peale

1. Norman Vincent Peale taught the power of positive thinking and the importance of having faith in oneself. He believed that by believing in yourself and having a positive attitude, you can achieve anything.
2. He also stressed the importance of optimism and having a strong sense of self-confidence. He taught that having a positive outlook on life can help you to overcome any obstacle.
3. Lastly, he encouraged people to take action and to never give up, no matter how difficult the situation may seem. He believed that by taking action and having faith in yourself, you can achieve any goal.