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Quotes About Purpose

A vision is not a vision unless it says yes to some ideas and no to others, inspires people and is a reason to get out of bed in the morning and come to work.
~ Gifford Pinchot
When God delays in fulfilling our little thoughts, it is to have Himself room to work out His great ones.
~ Lilias Trotter
Find out what you like doing best, and get someone to pay you for it.
~ Katharine Whitehorn
What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do. When we do what we are meant to do, money comes to us, doors open for us, we feel useful, and the work we do feels like play to us.
~ Julia Cameron
I have a firm conviction that I am immortal until my work is done.
~ Lottie Moon
Homemaking is surely in reality the most important work in the world.
~ C. S. Lewis
Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.
~ Edward Bernays
Where your talents and the needs of the world cross; there lies your vocation.
~ Aristotle
Where our work is, there let our joy be.
~ Tertullian
The purpose of life is to discover your gift. The work of life is to develop it. The meaning of life is to give your gift away.
~ David Viscott
Salvation is a work of God to show His glory. That's why He's not going to let it fail.
~ Paul Washer
God has a plan for all of us, but He expects us to do our share of the work.
~ Minnie Pearl
It has always seemed to me that broken things, just like broken people, get used more; it's probably because God has more pieces to work with.
~ Bob Goff
The last clear definite function of man — muscles aching to work, minds aching to create beyond the single need — this is man.
~ John Steinbeck
God has created us to love and to be loved, and this is the beginning of prayer-to know that He loves me, that I have been created for greater things.
~ Mother Teresa
It's important to wake up everyday and remind yourself what you're working towards. You create your own life, it's not set out there for you.
~ Shay Mitchell
Work is love made visible.
~ Khalil Gibran
The only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work
~ Steve Jobs
Rather than focus on your critics, focus on the people who are impacted by your work.
~ Tyler Perry
Idleness, indifference and irresponsibility are healthy responses to absurd work.
~ Frederick Herzberg
The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle.
~ Steve Jobs
Lord, may I think what you want me to think. May I desire what you want me to desire. May I speak as you want me to speak. May I work as you want me to work.
~ Pedro Poveda Castroverde
What I know is, is that if you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.
~ Oprah Winfrey
He who knows how will always work for he who knows why.
~ David Lee Roth