Quotes About Purpose

I thought the secret of life was obvious: be here now, love as if your whole life depended on it, find your life's work, and try to get hold of a giant panda.

What is the most important thing you could be working on in the world right now? ... And if you're not working on that, why aren't you?

I used to ask God to help me. Then I asked if I might help Him to do His work through me.

The work of a director can be summed up in two very simple words. Why and How.

I don't work, I live... I don't have a job, I just have a life.

To have a firm persuasion in our work - to feel that what we do is right for ourselves and good for the world at exactly the same time - is one of the great triumphs of human existence.

Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.

Create your world around your work. Create your work around your life. Let other people help you shape it.

There is no work, however vile or sordid, that does not glisten before God.

God has created me to do Him some definite service; He has committed some work to me which He has not committed to another. I have my mission.

I don't like work... but I like what is in work - the chance to find yourself. Your own reality - for yourself, not for others - which no other man can ever know.

If the building of a bridge does not enrich the awareness of those who work on it, then the bridge ought not to be built.

I have to believe that somebody up there thinks I've still got some work to do.

Enjoying your work is essential. If your work becomes an expression of your own ideas, you will surely enjoy it.

Our work is to make ourselves visible in the world. This is the soul's individual journey, and the soul would much rather fail at its own life than succeed at someone else's.

I cannot understand how any man or woman can believe in the Lord's coming and not be a missionary, or at least committed to the work of missions with every power of his being.

Realize what you really want. It stops you from chasing butterflies and puts you to work digging gold.

If our identity is in our work, rather than Christ, success will go to our heads, and failure will go to our hearts.

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

There is nothing more marvelous than doing something you love to do and getting paid for it. It ceases to become work, money, and effort; and it becomes fun, your expression of the joy of life.

It is not worth while to go round the world to count the cats in Zanzibar.

Don't ask what the work is. Rather, see what the work does.

A leader shapes and shares a vision, which gives point to the work of others.

You have to be very focused and work very hard, but it is not about working hard without knowing what your aim is!