Quotes About Mission

Leaders set strategy; they motivate; they create a mission; they build a culture.

What you are about, is more important than who you are

It is the presumed mission of all women, a quest for a man, and no amount of bloodshed can dissuade the myth. For a boy, people would say to her soon, in disbelief or even in admiration, and they would be all wrong.

If my life was an action movie, my boss would be the spy trying to sabotage my mission, and my mission would be going on Facebook.

"They're not gonna catch us. We're on a mission from God."

A woman of faith is blessed by faithful men in her life who hold the priesthood of God and honor this privilege: her father, bishop, husband, brothers, sons. They value her and the divine gifts given by God to His daughter. They sustain and encourage, and they understand the great mission of her life as a woman. They love her; they bless her.

True happiness…not not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Of his performing the miracle, Jesus told his disciples, "As long as it is day, we must do the work of him who sent me… While I am in the world, I am the light of the world."

8. My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.

Perhaps this is the moment for which you have been created.

Pinch, Bijker, and Hughes note that inclusion in a group, organization, or bureaucracy dampens the originality of inventors and innovators (Bijker, this volume). High inclusion brings mission orientation or commitment to incremental improvements in the evolving technological system with which the group, organization, or bureaucracy has identified. The

the Ann Arbor, Michigan, School Board, near where I live, had a debate as to whether the primary mission of their schools was imparting knowledge or raising self-esteem. Self-esteem won.

Have fun storming the castle!

in our Father's house are many mansions, and each of us must discover for himself the kind of religion and the amount of saintship which best comports with what he believes to be his powers and feels to be his truest mission and vocation.

That," she says, "is what I am. I am what's been sent for.

How can you create a habit that supports the change you're trying to make? There are only two things to think about: (1) The habit needs to advance the mission, as did Pagonis's stand-up meetings. (2) The habit needs to be relatively easy to embrace. If it's too hard, then it creates its own independent change problem. For

A sense of purpose seems to spark "above and beyond" behaviors.

You need to create the expectation of failure—not the failure of the mission itself, but failure en route. This

The Combat Maneuver Training Center, the unit in charge of military simulations, recommends that officers arrive at the Commander's Intent by asking themselves two questions: If we do nothing else during tomorrow's mission, we must _________________. The single, most important thing that we must do tomorrow is ________________.

The answer may sound strange: You need to create the expectation of failure—not the failure of the mission itself, but failure en route.

That's a moment of shared meaning. It instills not the pride of individual accomplishment, but the profound sense of connection that comes from subordinating ourselves to a greater mission. After the All-Staff Assembly

serving food is a job, but improving morale is a mission.

Our privileges are not for our pleasure but rather for our purpose.

Life should be about purpose and meaning and cause and fulfilling our personal, God-given destinies.