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Quotes About Purpose

Love is what makes me live, quite simply. It's the only thing that makes me work. It made me become what I am today.
~ Pierre Berge
Don't mistake activity with achievement.
~ John Wooden
Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work.
~ Karl Jaspers
No better love than love with no objective, no more satisfying work than work with no purpose. If you could give up tricks and cleverness, that would be the cleverest trick!
~ Rumi
He that can work is born to be king of something.
~ Thomas Carlyle
I am not such an egotist as to believe that God has spared me because I am I. I believe there is work for me to do and that I am spared to do it, just as you are.
~ Eddie Rickenbacker
It is impossible to get exhausted in work for God. We get exhausted because we try to do God's work in our own way.
~ Oswald Chambers
There's something spiritual in hard work. Spirituality isn't all aromatherapy and scented candles.
~ Craig Ferguson
God buries His workmen, but not His work.
~ Henrietta Mears
Our lives have a countdown clock that we can't see. Mine reminds me to only do work that matters.
~ Donald Miller
The days you work are the best days.
~ Georgia O'Keeffe
Hope is a feeling that life and work have meaning. You either have it or you don't, regardless of the state of the world that surrounds you.
~ Vaclav Havel
Too many men work on parts of things. Doing a job to completion, satisfies me.
~ Richard Proenneke
It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work, and that when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey.
~ Wendell Berry
Let us strive on to finish the work we are in.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Critics should find meaningful work.
~ John Grisham
There is honor in labor. Work is the medicine of the soul. It is more: it is your very life, without which you would amount to little.
~ Grenville Kleiser
Authentic empowerment is the knowing that you are on purpose, doing God's work, peacefully and harmoniously.
~ Wayne W. Dyer
Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night.
~ Marian Wright Edelman
Work hard at work worth doing.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
Work like you don't need the money.
~ Joseph Joubert
Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I see no business in life but the work of Christ.
~ Henry Martyn
It is not the greatness of the work which matters to God but the love with which it is done.
~ Brother Lawrence