Quotes about Purpose
Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do.
— Norman Vincent Peale
The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourseld, the more energy you will have.
— Norman Vincent Peale
imaging has its own formula: 1) the goal, 2) the purpose, 3) prayer activity, 4) thoughtful planning, 5) innovative thinking, 6) enthusiasm, 7) organized hard work, and 8) always holding the image of success firmly in mind. If this formula is faithfully carried out, the desired results will be achieved despite all difficulties or setbacks.
— Norman Vincent Peale
And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. ROMANS 8:28
— Norman Vincent Peale
The man who is out doing something isn't tired. If you're not getting into good causes, no wonder you're tired. You're disintegrating. You're deteriorating. You're dying on the vine. The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have. You don't have time to think about yourself and get bogged down in your emotional difficulties.
— Norman Vincent Peale
Lord: "I believe You have a plan for my life, so there must be some purpose in my getting fired. Instead of railing against my fate, I humbly ask You to show me the purpose in what has happened." Once he began to believe there had been a reason and some meaning behind what had happened to him, it was easier to rid himself of resentment against his former employers.
— Norman Vincent Peale
Lord: "I believe You have a plan for my life, so there must be some purpose in my getting fired. Instead of railing against my fate, I humbly ask You to show me the purpose in what has happened." Once he began to believe there had been a reason and some meaning behind what had happened to him, it was easier to rid himself of resentment against his former employers. And once that happened he was "employable" again.
— Norman Vincent Peale
Practice "seeing" yourself, not as weak, wishy-washy and vascillating, but as strong, controlled, purposeful.
— Norman Vincent Peale
Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today. Go another mile!
— Og Mandino
So long as I have something to do, someone to love, and something to hope for, I shall be happy.
— Og Mandino
If I waste today I destroy the last page of my life.
— Og Mandino
Work is not your enemy but your friend. How you work, not what you do, determines the course of your life. You may work grudgingly or you may work gratefully; you may work as a human or you may work as a robot. There is no work so rude that you may not exalt in it; no work so demeaning that you cannot breathe soul into it; no work so dull that you may not enliven it.
— Og Mandino