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Quotes About Purpose

All shall work together for good; everything is needful that He sends; nothing can be needful that He withholds.
~ John Newton
Work isn't to make money; you work to justify life.
~ Marc Chagall
A printed work, which cannot be read, becomes a product without purpose.
~ Emil Ruder
The image my work invokes is the image of good - not evil; the image of order - not chaos; the image of life - not death. And that is all the content of my constructions amounts to.
~ Naum Gabo
You should always be well and bright, for so you do your best work; and you have so much beautiful work to do. The world needs it, and you must give it!
~ Marie Corelli
We do not create our destiny; we participate in its unfolding. Synchronicity works as a catalyst toward the working out of that destiny.
~ David Richo
Your innermost urges will tell you what strategy to employ to accomplish your special purpose while doing the work you enjoy.
~ Carrie Fisher
Work for your terrestrial life in proportion to your location in it, and work for your afterlife in proportion to your eternity in it.
~ Al-Ghazali
Set me a task in which I can put something of my very self, and it is a task no longer; it is joy; it is art.
~ Bliss Carman
You are not your resume, you are your work.
~ Seth Godin
There've been many a season where I couldn't get work, and I think that you learn character development and you learn how to really want what you do in life when you can't really do it.
~ Anthony Michael Hall
Work? I never worked a day in my life. I always loved what I was doing, had a passion for it.
~ Ernie Banks
Put your talent into your work, but your genius into your life.
~ Oscar Wilde
What protects you in this world from sadness and from the loss of an ability to do something? ... Work and love.
~ Maira Kalman
So what am I willing to do? Do my work heartily, unto the Lord. There is no higher accountability in life than to do something for God. So that's kind of how I operate.
~ Mark Richt
It is not the place where we are, or the work that we do or cannot do that matters, it is something else. It is the fire within that burns and shines, whatever be our circumstances.
~ Amy Carmichael
God has to work in a man before He can work through a man.
~ Leonard Ravenhill
If what you're working for really matters, you'll give it all you've got.
~ Nido R Qubein
The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step. So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small.
~ Adlai E. Stevenson
Fun is the most important. If you do stuff for money, it never works out.
~ Ina Garten
No design works unless it embodies ideas that are held common by the people for whom the object is intended.
~ Adrian Forty
If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.
~ Khalil Gibran
When you are making a success of something, it's not work. It's a way of life. You enjoy yourself because you are making your contribution to the world.
~ Andy Granatelli
That is the simple secret. Always take your heart to work.
~ Meryl Streep