Vincent Peale Quotes & Sayings

To have a mind full of peace, merely fill it full of peace. It's as simple as that. — Norman Vincent Peale

Believe that you are bigger than your difficulties, for you are, indeed. — Norman Vincent Peale

Take charge of your mind and begin to fill it with
healthy, positive, and courageous thoughts. — Norman Vincent Peale

YOU DO NOT need to be a victim of worry. Reduced to its simplest form, what is worry? It is simply an unhealthy and destructive mental habit. — 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

Expecting the best means that you put your whole heart (i.e. the central essence of your personality) into what you want to accomplish. People are defeated in life not because of lack of ability, but for lack of wholeheartedness. They do not wholeheartedly expect to succeed. Their heart isn't in it, which is to say, they themselves are not fully given. — Norman Vincent Peale

Live your life, not your age. — Norman Vincent Peale

Stop resisting your problems so furiously in your mind. Stop struggling to solve them. If you do that, a great sense of peace followed by a great sense of power will come to you. — Norman Vincent Peale

When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self - giving is a personal power - releasing factor. — Norman Vincent Peale

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

No man is happy who does not think himself so. — Norman Vincent Peale

Though one may acquire much in wealth, fame, or honor, the real joy of life does not lie there but, rather, in keeping the romance of living going. Nothing gives such complete and profound happiness as the perpetually fresh wonder and mystery of exciting life. — Norman Vincent Peale

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

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

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

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

Only the believers pick up the prizes in life. — 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

Learn from both your mistakes and successes because if you learn only from your mistakes you will only learn more errors — Norman Vincent Peale

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

Expect great things, and great things will come. — Norman Vincent Peale

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

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

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

From the fullness of his grace we have all received one blessing after another. JOHN 1:16 JUNE 14 Health and prosperity can be yours. I realize that you may regard this as a very extravagant assertion - a big order, so to speak; but please remember that I do not make this assertion on my own authority. I have this on the authority of the wisest Book ever written. The Bible isn't as fearful of promising big things as some of the more timid, halfhearted preachers of the gospel. The Bible makes superlative promises, because its promises are inspired by a loving and omnipotent God. But the Bible is also very subtle. And it points out that the blessings of health and prosperity are not easily given or easily received. Parenthetically, I want to say that by prosperity, the Bible does not mean merely material affluence; it means to enter abundantly into the blessings of God's grace. And it tells us that health and prosperity come to us when our soul is in harmony with — Norman Vincent Peale

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

I was brought up on the romance of American achievement. No matter where you start, if you work hard and if you think positively and if you dream dreams and if you have good character, you can lift the status of yourself, your family, your friends and everyone around you. This doesn't mean that your object in life is to become rich or famous. Just do the best you can with yourself. I think that Almighty God has put that into us and I'm going to do the best I can with myself. That's what I call the romance of achievement. Achievement means to be what, by the grace of God, you can be ... — Norman Vincent Peale

Emerson said, "The soul contains the event that shall befall it. — Norman Vincent Peale

People who belittle people, will be LITTLE people, and will accomplish very Little — Norman Vincent Peale

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

Almighty God freely bestows the good things in this world in proportion to a person's mental readiness to receive. — Norman Vincent Peale

The capacity to be either happy or unhappy is determined by the manner in which you react to whatever happens. — Norman Vincent Peale

Good intentions are no substitute for obedience. — Norman Vincent Peale

Every day practice emptying your mind of all unhealthy attitudes. — 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

Change your thoughts and change your world — Norman Vincent Peale

Enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things; first, an ideal which takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for a carrying that ideal into practice. — Norman Vincent Peale

Fear is never a reason for quitting; it is only an excuse. — 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

Cherish your family connections. They are one of God's greatest ways of demonstrating his love and fellowship. — Norman Vincent Peale

Never say anything to hurt anyone. Moreover ... refrain from double talk, from shrewd and canny remarks that are designed to advance our interests at someone's disadvantage. We are to turn our back upon evil, and in every way possible, do good, help people and bring blessings into their lives. — Norman Vincent Peale

Believe that all the resources you need are in your mind. That is a formula that really works. — Norman Vincent Peale

Prayer is more than words. It's listening, seeing and feeling. — Norman Vincent Peale

Help other people to cope with their problems, and your own will be easier to cope with. — Norman Vincent Peale

When you keep asserting that things are going to work out well, that you can do the job, that you will not have a flat tire, that you will get there on time, by talking up good results you invoke the law of positive effects and good results occur. Things do turn out well. — Norman Vincent Peale

Expect the best and get it. — Norman Vincent Peale

A true apology is more than just aknowledgment of a mistake. It is recognition that something you have said or done has damaged a relationship and that you care enough about the relationship to want it repaired and restored. — 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

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

Make a true estimate of your own ability, then raise it ten per cent. — Norman Vincent Peale

She said that whenever she feels the old insidious chill of loneliness beginning to creep back into her life, she picks up the phone and calls someone who may be lonelier than she is. — Norman Vincent Peale

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

Worry is a habit. It got into your mind because you practiced it, and anything you practice in, you can practice out. — Norman Vincent Peale

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

He remembered that what things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them. — Norman Vincent Peale

I started life washing cars in Canada before moving on to selling life insurance and vacuum cleaners. Later, I went through a programme by Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, which literally changed my life. It was the turning point. — Shiv Khera

You only lose energy when life becomes dull in your mind. Your mind gets bored and therefore tired of doing nothing. — Norman Vincent Peale

Scatter good will and love and prayers all around, everywhere, and you will be astonished, not only by what it does for other people, but how it comes back to you in generous abundance. — Norman Vincent Peale

What you can image, you will be, in the long run. — Norman Vincent Peale

If Jesus were alive today, he'd probably be at the Super Bowl. — Norman Vincent Peale

As his self-defenses seemed to indicate. When the younger employee — 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

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

Faced with the election of a Catholic, our culture is at stake. — Norman Vincent Peale

It is always too soon to quit. — Norman Vincent Peale

When learning stops, decay sets in. — Norman Vincent Peale

My suggestion was that every night, upon going to bed, he place a chair beside his bed and tell himself that Jesus was sitting in that chair all night, watching over him and lifting the burden of worry from his shoulders. — Norman Vincent Peale

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

I truly believe that the individual who learns to practice thanksgiving activates within himself and around himself continuous victories and blessings from God. — Norman Vincent Peale

It's almost as if there were an invisible reservoir of abundance in the universe that can be tapped if you will just obey certain spiritual laws. — Norman Vincent Peale

Not every day can be an easy one, nor every day fully happy; but even a day of tough going and difficulty can be a good day. — 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

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

Nothing of great value in this life comes easily. The things of highest value sometimes come hard. The gold that has the greatest value lies deepest in the earth, as do the diamonds. — Norman Vincent Peale

Get the heat and emotion out worry, and put cold, ruthless scrutiny onto the problem, and worry loses its power. When we are worried and filled with apprehension, we become panicky and are likely to see only gloom and failure. There isn't any situation so bad that it won't become a lot better when you think rationally - and spiritually - about it. God gives you the ability to think rationally about things by filling you with peace and faith. — Norman Vincent Peale

Check what you did right and don't get lost in basking on your glory. It will make it easier to repeat whatever you did that created the success. — Norman Vincent Peale

That verse many times, but it never had any effect — Norman Vincent Peale

Change your thoughts and you change your world. — 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

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 jailer is you. You're the only person who has the key to your cell. You're the only one who can open the door that leads to freedom. — 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

There is nothing at all wrong with having money unless money has you. — Norman Vincent Peale

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

When the old fears, hates, and worries that have haunted you for so long try to edge back in, they will in effect find a sign on the door of your mind reading occupied. — Norman Vincent Peale

I found eternal peace in a Shinto shrine ... I've been to Shinto shrines and God is everywhere ... Christ is one of the ways! God is everywhere. — Norman Vincent Peale

It's always too soon to quit! — 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

Families, like individuals, are unique. — Norman Vincent Peale

We may live victoriously, not because we have any power within ourselves, but because when we give ourselves to God, He gives himself to us. — Norman Vincent Peale

You can make yourself enthusiastic by affirming enthusiasm and by thinking, talking, acting enthusiastic. — Norman Vincent Peale

It's always to soon to quit! — Norman Vincent Peale

Remember that "Help us grow this grass" is a far more effective sign than "Keep off the grass". — Norman Vincent Peale

Go out of your way to talk optimistically about everything. — Norman Vincent Peale

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

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

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

I expect the best and with God's help will attain the best. — Norman Vincent Peale

Americans are so tense and keyed up that it is impossible even to put them to sleep with a sermon. — Norman Vincent Peale