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Quotes About Purpose

When you are born, your work is placed in your heart.
~ Khalil Gibran
Laa shay'a waqi'un moutlaq bale kouloun moumkine...We work in the Dark, to serve the Light.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
Work for your own soul's sake.
~ Edgar Lee Masters
We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.
~ Tennessee Williams
If you feel weak, limited, ordinary, you are the best material through which God can work.
~ Henry Blackaby
Less talk - more work! There is too much talking going on. Because of excessive talking, spiritual energy is being wasted.
~ Sathya Sai Baba
If you look at any designer you admire, whose work inspires you, and whose approach somehow resonates with you, I promise you'll find a person who does not think of what they do as just their job
~ Alexander Isley
It's always such a joy that you wake up in the morning and there's work to do.
~ Jerome Lawrence
To make a man happy, fill his hands with work, his heart with affection, his mind with purpose, his memory with useful knowledge, his future with hope, and his stomach with food.
~ Frederick E. Crane
Just as there are no little people or unimportant lives, there is no insignificant work.
~ Yelena Bonner
We do not go to work only to earn an income, but to find meaning in our lives. What we do is a large part of what we are
~ Alan Ryan
Well, while I'm here I'll do the work — and what's the work? To ease the pain of living. Everything else, drunken dumbshow.
~ Allen Ginsberg
Have the end in mind and every day make sure your working towards it.
~ Ryan Allis
Every single person has a life to live, a work to do, a glorious personality, a wonderful individuality.
~ Edward Bach
We are part of each other and part of something bigger than our own egos. An artist should... bring into the world some vision. Dancers should ask, "What is their work in the service of?"
~ Bill T. Jones
Work with people who believe what you believe.
~ Simon Sinek
Most people work at keeping their job, rather than doing a good job. If you're the former, you're leading a meaningless life. If you're the latter, keep up the good work.
~ George Lois
To make a living is no longer enough. Work also has to make a life.
~ Peter Drucker
Decide what you want and don't think of the intermediary conditions. When Nature works for us we should want what we want and Nature will work it out for us.
~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
A work is finished when an artist realizes his intentions.
~ Rembrandt
Do what you do only for God's sake, start for God's sake, work for God's sake, and act within the sphere of God's good approval.
~ Bediüzzaman Said Nursî
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
~ David McCullough
My hands were too soft.. I had to find some special occupation, some kind of work that would not force me to turn away from the sky and the stars, that would allow me to discover the meaning of life.
~ Marc Chagall
You may be exhausted with work, you may even kill yourself, but unless your work is interwoven with love, it is useless. To work without love is slavery.
~ Mother Teresa