Quotes About Purpose

What do you think is going to happen? What we make happen, says Joseph—again, with resolution. That's easy to say, says Frank. Not if you mean it, says Joseph.

what was the point, the purpose, of my salvation if it did not permit me to behave with love toward others, no matter how they behaved toward me?

People are always saying, we must wait, we must wait. what are they waiting for?

Why would I want to poison you? Then I have no job and I have only just found out that I want to live.

What you think is going to happen?" "What we make happen," says Joseph—again, with resolution.

You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don't live the life you have, you won't live some other life. You won't live any life at all.

You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don't live the only life you have, you won't live some other life, you won't live any life at all. That's the only advice you can give anybody. And it's not advice. It's an observation.

One is responsible to life: It is the small beacon in that terrifying darkness from which we come and to which we shall return.

I'm not really interested in being what Americans call 'happy'.

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It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.

Discover your core values and purpose beyond just making money (core ideology) and combine this with the dynamic of preserve the core/stimulate progress.

We find out who they are by asking them why they made decisions in their life. The answers to these questions give us insight into their core values.33

What work makes you feel compelled to try to create greatness?

accomplish the organization's mission.

Companies more than ever need to have a clear understanding of their purpose in order to make work meaningful and thereby attract, motivate, and retain outstanding people.

A crucial aspect of purpose is that it's always worked towards, but never fully achieved, like chasing the earth's horizon or pursuing a guiding star.

it is far more important to know who you are than where you are going, for where you are going will certainly change as the world about you changes.

So, the question of Why greatness? is almost a nonsense question. If you're engaged in work that you love and care about, for whatever reason, then the question needs no answer. The question is not why, but how.

shareholder wealth" is the standard "off-the-shelf" purpose for those organizations that have not yet identified their true core purpose. It is a substitute ideology, and a weak substitute at that. Listen to people in great organizations talk about their achievements and you'll hear very little about earnings per share.

businesses. We will not make unrelated acquisitions. We will not do unrelated joint ventures. If it doesn't fit, we don't do it. Period.

purposeful evolution.

So, the question of Why greatness? is almost a nonsense question. If you're engaged in work that you love and care about, for whatever reason, then the question needs no answer. The question is not why, but how.

But there is a second answer to the question of why greatness, one that is at the very heart of what motivated us to undertake this huge project in the first place: the search for meaning, or more precisely, the search for meaningful work. I