64 Norman Vincent Peale Quotes (POSITIVE THINKING)

12 of the Best Dr Norman Vincent Peale Quotes to Inspire Positive Thinking (CHANGE)

Change your thoughts and you change your world. — **Change** your thoughts and you change your world.

Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them... you’ll find they haven’t half the strength you think they have. — Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them… you’ll find they haven’t half the strength you think they have.

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars. — Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars.

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

What the mind can conceive and believe, and the heart desire, you can achieve.

“I place this day, my life, my loved ones, my work in the Lord’s hands. There is no harm in the Lord’s hands, only good. Whatever happens, whatever results, if I am in the Lord’s hands it is the Lord’s will and it is good.”
Norman Vincent Peale

Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.

There is real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment. — There is real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and **accomplishment**.

Believe it is possible to solve your problem. Tremendous things happen to the believer. So believe the answer will come. It will.

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

Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don’t have any problems, you don’t get any seeds.

“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

26 Inspirational Norman Vincent Peale Quotes on The Power of Positive Thinking (HAPPINESS)

“Be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind. Talk health, happiness, and prosperity to every person you meet. Make all your friends feel there is something special in them. Look at the sunny side of everything. Think only the best, be as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own.”
Norman Vincent Peale

Get your mind so eager, so zestful, so filled with interests that you just cannot be tired.

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy. — Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable **confidence** in your own powers you cannot be **successful** or **happy**.

When you expect the best, you release a magnetic force in your mind which by a law of attraction tends to bring the best to you.

Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex. — Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a **habit** which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex.

“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

The trouble with most of us is that we'd rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism. — The trouble with most of us is that we’d rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.

The cyclone derives its power from a calm center. So does a person.

The line of inner peace; being harmonious and without stress is the easiest type of existence. — The line of **inner peace**; being harmonious and without stress is the easiest type of existence.

Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.

Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.

“Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.”
Norman Vincent Peale

If you put off everything till you’re sure of it, you’ll never get anything done.

The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.

When you get up in the morning, you have two choices - either to be happy or to be unhappy. Just choose to be happy. — When you get up in the morning, you have two choices – either to be **happy** or to be unhappy. Just choose to be **happy**.

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.

“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

If you live in conscious communication with God you receive of His power, His health, His well being, His zest, His energy. — If you live in conscious communication with God you receive of His power, His **health**, His well being, His zest, His energy.

Four things for success: work and pray, think and believe. — Four things for **success**: work and pray, think and believe.

In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it.

Always start the day with prayer. It is the greatest of all mind conditioners.

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

Optimism, when applied to your life, develops strength and peace within you. — **Optimism**, when applied to your life, develops strength and **peace** within you.

Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.

26 Motivational Norman Vincent Peale Quotes on Success, Fear, and Habits

“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

When every physical and mental resources is focused, one’s power to solve a problem multiplies tremendously. — When every physical and mental resources is **focused**, one’s power to solve a problem multiplies tremendously.

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

If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself. — If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to **become different yourself**.

The first step is to fill your life with positive faith that will help you through anything. The second step is to start where you are.

Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory. — Never talk defeat. Use words like **hope**, belief, faith, victory.

“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

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

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

Don't be satisfied with a half life. God never said, "I'll give you a half life, I'll give you a desultory life." He said, "I give you life!”. — Don’t be satisfied with a half life. God never said, “I’ll give you a half life, I’ll give you a desultory life.” He said, “I give you life!”.

Life is either a great experience, or a small one, dependent on the quality and character of the thoughts we think. — Life is either a great experience, or a small one, dependent on the quality and **character** of the thoughts we think.

“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.”
Norman Vincent Peale

We struggle with complexities and avoid the simplicities.

If you want a quality, act as if you already have it. If you want to be courageous, act as if you were - and as you act and persevere in acting, so you tend to become. — If you want a quality, act as if you already have it. If you want to be courageous, act as if you were – and as you act and persevere in acting, so you tend to become.

Let nothing trouble you let nothing worry you everything passes away expect God God alone is sufficient.

Old unhealthy thoughts can block off inspiration and motivation. Dropping them releases a string flow of power through the mind.

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

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.

“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

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself.

If you have zest and enthusiasm you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind.

When you are afraid, do the thing you are afraid of and soon you will lose your fear of it. — When you are afraid, do the thing you are afraid of and soon you will lose your **fear** of it.

Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful. — Start each day by affirming **peaceful**, contented and **happy attitudes** and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.

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

“The way to happiness: keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Fill your life with love. Scatter sunshine. Forget self, think of others. Do as you would be done by. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.”
Norman Vincent Peale

Norman Vincent Peale Short Biography

Born 31 May 1898 in Bowersville, Ohio, United States, Norman Vincent Peale was an inspirational leader and author.

In 1922 he was ordained as a Methodist minister, furthered his religious studies, and earned a Bachelor of Sacred Theology and an M.A. in social ethics from Boston University in 1924.

Peale became a pastor for the Marble Collegiate Church for 52 years when he changed his religious association to the Reformed Church in America in 1932.

Peale and his colleague Smiley Blanton, founded a religio-psychiatric outpatient clinic and in 1951 this became known as the American Foundation of Religion and Psychiatry.

In 1935, Peale had a radio program that lasted 54 years, it was entitled The Art of Living. It was also available on television when the medium became available.

Of the long list of Peale’s accomplishments, his most significant and well known is his self-help book entitled The Power of Positive Thinking, which was published in 1952. It was on the New York Times Best Seller list for 186 weeks and is considered his most popular work.

Further Reading:

A Positive Note: Norman Vincent Peale Speaks at Crystal Cathedral Celebration – Los Angeles Times
Norman Vincent Peale’s Timeless Advice: Take Charge of Your Own Life, First – Foundation for Economic Education
How Norman Vincent Peale Taught Donald Trump to Worship Himself – Politico Magazine

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