Quotes About Purpose

There's no secret about what drives engagement. From Douglas McGregor's The Human Side of Enterprise to Dan Pink's Drive, the formula hasn't changed in sixty years: purpose, autonomy, collegiality, and the opportunity to grow. Unfortunately, engagement levels haven't changed much either. It seems that every generation rediscovers the essential elements of human engagement and then does nothing.

You were put on this earth to do something significant, heroic even, and what could be more heroic than creating, at long last, organizations that are fully human?

Live each day to the fullest!

A life entirely devoted to the avoidance of wrong seldom achieves anything exceptionally right—or anything at all.

Find a job you love and make a difference.

success is about doing the right thing, not about doing everything right.

To be financially wealthy you must have a purpose for your life. In other words, without purpose, you'll never know when you have enough money, and you can never be financially wealthy.

They allow purpose to be the guiding force in determining the priority that drives their actions.

It's not enough to be busy, so are the ants. The question is, what are we busy about?

The reason we shouldn't pursue balance is that the magic never happens in the middle; magic happens at the extremes.

Happiness happens when you have a bigger purpose than having more fulfills, which is why we say happiness happens on the way to fulfillment.

Knocking out a hundred tasks for whatever the reason is a poor substitute for doing even one task that's meaningful.

Purpose is the straightest path to power and the ultimate source of personal strength—strength

Purpose, meaning, significance—these are what make a successful life. Seek them and you will most certainly live your life out of balance, criss-crossing an invisible middle line as you pursue your priorities. The act of living a full life by giving time to what matters is a balancing act.

If you can honestly say, "This is where I'm meant to be right now, doing exactly what I'm doing," then all the amazing possibilities for your life become possible.

If today your company doesn't know what its ONE Thing is, then the company's ONE Thing is to find out.

If it's to be, it will be me.

Purpose, meaning, significance—these are what make a successful life. Seek them and you will most certainly live your life out of balance, criss-crossing an invisible middle line as you pursue your priorities.

Purpose without priority is powerless.

Curly: Do you know what the secret of life is? Mitch: No. What? Curly: This. [He holds up one finger.] Mitch: Your finger? Curly: One thing. Just one thing. You stick to that and everything else don't mean sh*t. Mitch: That's great, but what's the "one thing"? Curly: That's what you've got to figure out.

If I do the right thing, the money will be there.

Because I want my life to matter, I approach each area by doing what matters most in it. I view these as the cornerstones of my life and have found that when I'm doing what's most important in each area, my life feels like it's running on all cylinders.

Instead of a to-do list, you need a success list—a list that is purposefully created around extraordinary results.

If a list isn't built around success, then that's not where it takes you.