Quotes About Purpose

If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting.

In a sense, as we are creative beings, our lives become our work of art.

When you begin to think and grow rich, you will observe that riches begin with a state of mind, with definiteness of purpose, with little or no hard work.

Anyone can achieve something important. Contrary to popular belief, the key is not hard work, but finding the right thing to achieve.

When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

We were created for meaningful work, and one of life's greatest pleasures is the satisfaction of a job well done.

The child of God works not for life, but from life; he does not work to be saved, but works because he is saved

Our calling is not primarily to be holy women, but to work for God and for others with Him.

Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

If God is not with us, we do not want to continue. If the Sermon on the Mount is simply impractical, our mission work is hopeless. We have no backup plan. We have nothing but Him.

Our society has been eaten up by the economic view of things, which routinely forces us to work at jobs that don't mean anything.

It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.

I don't want to think my life as a career. I'm interested in my work only because of the meaning I can make.

Creative work is not a selfish act or a bid for attention on the part of the actor. It's a gift to the world and every being in it. Don't cheat us of your contribution. Give us what you've got.

Don't ever confuse the two, your life and your work. The second is only part of the first.

You've got to make haste while it's still light of day. My godmother used to say, I don't want to rust out, I just want to work out. If you stand still long enough, people will throw dirt on you.

Money is a good thing and it's obviously useful, but to work only for money or fame would never interest me.

Your life is a work of art that you will work on the rest of your life.

To me, working is a form of sustenance, like food or water, and nearly as essential.

There is no fatigue so wearisome as that which comes from lack of work.

No life can be dreary when work is delight.

Keep a definite goal of achievement constantly in view. Realize that work well and worthily done makes life truly worth living.

My best advice: Fall in love with what you do for a living.

Working is part of life, I don't know how to distinguish between the two... Work is an expression of life.