Quotes About Purpose

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

The greatest gift life has to offer is the opportunity to work hard at work worth doing.

There are two things that I want you to make up your minds to: first, that you are going to have a good time as long as you live – I have no use for the sour-faced man – and next, that you are going to do something worthwhile, that you are going to work hard and do the things you set out to do.

It is never worth while to absolutely exhaust one's self or to take big chances unless for an adequate object.

The leaders of thought and of action grope their way forward to a new life, realizing, sometimes dimly, sometimes clear-sightedly, that the life of material gain, whether for a nation or an individual, is of value only as a foundation, only as there is added to it the uplift that comes from devotion to loftier ideals.

The greatest happiness is the happiness that comes as a by-product of striving to do what must be done, even though sorrow is met in the doing.

Our creed is one that bids us to be just to all, to feel sympathy for all, and to strive for an understanding of the needs of all. Our purpose is to smite down wrong.

If a man does not have an ideal and try to live up to it, then he becomes a mean, base and sordid creature, no matter how successful.

To play the demagogue for purposes of self-interest is a cardinal sin against the people in a democracy, exactly as to play the courtier for such purposes is a cardinal sin against the people under other forms of government.

Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die; and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life.

Yaln?zca zenginliÄŸinizi nas?l kullanaca??n?z? bildiÄŸinizde gerçekten zengindiniz. Zengin olmak demek, parayla olduÄŸu kadar hayatla da ne yapaca??n? bilmek demekti, yaln?zca para kazanmak deÄŸildi.

Nothing is truly beautiful unless it cannot be used for anything; everything that is useful is ugly because it is the expression of some need, and those of man are ignoble and disgusting, like his poor and infirm nature.

Every fucking corner of everything you write is precious, if it isn't why would you write it?

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Our own life has to be our message.

En muchas Iglesias, to que al principio eran las herramientas para transformar la vida, han generado abarrotamiento. En vez de unificar el enfoque, lo diversificaron. Las actividades se convirtieron en fines en si mismas.

Church burnout will not take place if we are seeking to please God in our service rather than to please people.

Lives not fully lived are the worst kinds of stewardship.

The churches were purposeless. They were engaged in an activity called, "This is the way we've always done it.

Thriving churches have the Great Commission as the centerpiece of their vision, while dying churches have forgotten the clear command of Christ.

A church without a gospel-centered purpose is no longer a church at all.

All that is in the world is vanity except to love God and serve him only.

O that we had spent but one day in this world thoroughly well!

The intention which is fixed on God as its only end will keep people steady in their purposes, and deliver them from being the joke and scorn of fortune.