Norman Vincent Peale Quotes

The antidote to frustration is a calm faith, not in your own cleverness, or in hard toil, but in God's guidance.

Norman Vincent Peale

• Faith
• Frustration
• God's Guidance

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• In any art, you don't know in advance what you want to say - it's revealed to you as you say it. That's the difference between art and illustration.

  

  Aaron Siskind
  • Art
  • Want
  • Know

• Yes, I can speak a bit and I can read and write in Russian. I learned it from my grandmother who raised me with all the Russian fairytales.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Me
  • Speak
  • Grandmother

• I swear allegiance to the Republic of Sudan.

  

  Salva Kiir Mayardit
  • Swear
  • Republic
  • Sudan

• The amazing thing about being a dad is to be able to look at your child and realize that the universe is so much bigger than you.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • Dad
  • Amazing
  • Universe

• I wish there was a painter who could paint as well as Ted Williams could hit.

  

  Jack Levine
  • Wish
  • Paint
  • I Wish

• The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • God
  • Look
  • Him

• When I wrote 'The West Wing,' the juice behind it was that in popular culture, our leaders in government are generally portrayed as Machiavellian, or as idiots. I thought, well, how about writing about a group of hyper-competent people?

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • People
  • Writing
  • Culture

• A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • War
  • Boy
  • Hero

• My voice is not good enough for me to sing a song.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Good
  • Song
  • Enough

• What is your identity, and how do you know who you are if you don't have language?

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • You
  • Know
  • Language

• Politics is a necessary evil, or a necessary annoyance, a necessary conundrum.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Evil
  • Politics
  • Annoyance

• I'm not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols - money, whatever. Their humanness gets reshaped around the idol - you become like what you worship. That's one of the basic spiritual laws.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • People
  • Money
  • Spiritual

• I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.

  

  Earl Scruggs
  • Think
  • You
  • Enough

• Our choices are going to determine the future for our children, our children's children, and their children. I take that responsibility very seriously.

  

  Maggie Q
  • Children
  • Future
  • Responsibility

• In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Action
  • Positive
  • Vision

• I wanted to be a comedian, and this is what I'm doing. If I can keep this going, I'm happy.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • Happy
  • Doing
  • I Can

• I'm tired of being considered some kind of criminal or dangerous throwback for no other reason than that I value, exercise, and defend my rights under the first ten Amendments to the United States Constitution.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • Value
  • Exercise
  • Tired

• The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Children
  • Faces
  • Animals

• We drive into the future using only our rearview mirror.

  

  Marshall McLuhan
  • Future
  • Mirror

• Life is fragile: it thrives only in a narrow range of temperatures between freezing and boiling. How lucky that our planet is just the right distance from the sun: a little farther, and the death of the perpetual Antarctic winter - or worse - would prevail; a little closer, and the surface would truly fry anything that touched it.

  

  Leonard Susskind
  • Life
  • Father
  • Death

• I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.

  

  Faye Dunaway
  • Play
  • Working
  • Class

• Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • People
  • Up
  • Freedom

• Ocean's remarkable stories, depth of commitment, and eloquent communication make him a fantastic resource for conferences, universities, and indeed everyone who wants a potent dose of grounded inspiration.

  

  Van Jones
  • Inspiration
  • Stories
  • Commitment

• The antidote to frustration is a calm faith, not in your own cleverness, or in hard toil, but in God's guidance.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Faith
  • Frustration
  • God's Guidance