Quotes About Purpose

Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best.

Getting up in the morning and having work you love is what makes life different for people. If you get into a position where you don't love what you're doing, get off it.

People say I was made for this Nothin' else would I trade for this And just think I get paid for this...

I want to be world champion. I have achieved it, now I don't know what to do.

I think a lot of times people design restaurants with flash in mind. I think you should design restaurants with function in mind. Make sure it's functional and works with what you're trying to accomplish. Design can come later.

She likes a quote by Dolly Parton: "Decide who you are, and then do it on purpose.

Life and death are important. Don't suffer them in vain.

From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we tend—Path, motive, guide, original and end.

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Happiness is for those who don't really need it. So I can live without happiness.

You can disagree on everything but still work together on one thing... if that one thing is important enough.

Fame is a currency. I want to spend mine on the right stuff.

In the ancient-wisdom literature known as the book of Ecclesiastes, written several hundred years BC, there is a wanderer I borrowed from, a sojourner who discovers that sex, drugs, money, fame … are apparently not the promised land. Instead, says the writer—maybe Solomon—these are the vanities of vanities. The best thing in life, he discovers, is to enjoy your work. To do what you love. The promised land will always be somewhere else. I think I can grasp this.

Once we are born, we begin to forget The very reason we came But you I'm sure I've met Long before the night the stars went out We're meeting up again.

There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.

I am learning more and more each year that all worry simply consumes, and to no purpose, just so much physical and mental strength that might otherwise be given to effective work.

it is the smaller, the petty, things in life that divide people. It is the great tasks that bring men together.

In order to be successful in any kind of undertaking, I think the main thing is for one to grow to the point where he completely forgets himself; that is, to lose himself in a great cause.

healthy. I believe that when one can grow to the point where he loves his work, this gives him a kind of strength that is most valuable.

To do the most that lies in you, you must go with a heart and head full of hope and faith in the world, believing that there is work for you to do, believing that you are the person to accomplish that work, and the one who is going to accomplish it.

Not to worry about the results... it is pretty difficult to learn not to worry, although I think I am learning more and more each year that all worry simply consumes, and to no purpose, just so much physical and mental strength that might otherwise be given to effective work.

Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.

A man must live like a great brilliant flame and burn as brightly as he can. In the end he burns out. But this is far better than a mean little flame.

Men were created for something better than merely to make money. A close application to business, until a competence is gained, is one of the chief virtues; but to continue in trade long after this result is obtained, is one of the signs, not to be mistaken, of a sordid and ignoble nature.