Quotes About Purpose

Whenever GOD determines to do a great work, HE first sets HIS people to pray.

Work will cure your grief. Serve others.

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

What I still ask for daily-for life as long as I have work to do, and work as long as I have life.

Love and work are the only two real things in our lives. They belong together, otherwise it is off. Work is in itself a form of love.

It's important to have a plan, a big picture. You can deviate from it or change it completely, but it gives you something to work for.

I have a master plan as an artist. I've always said I'm not going to be punching nobody's clock. I will work as an artist to survive in this world.

I simply do not distinguish between work and play.

If one's work environment isn't able to provide individuals with meaning, people will seek out one that does.

God made us and God is able to empower us to do whatever he calls us to do. Denying that we can accomplish God's work is not humility; it is the worst kind of pride.

I think I've realized that when you are aiming to create a real body of work, you are as much defined by the things you don't do, as by the things you do.

Time is all we have. One lifetime under this name to produce a body of work that says, This is how I saw the world. Your work is worthy of whatever time it takes.

When you are in alignment with the desires of your heart, things have a way of working out.

I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

One of the reasons I am happy now is that I did the work I had always dreamed of doing. But I didn't start doing it seriously and professionally until I was forty years old.

The purpose of work is not to make money. The purpose of work is to make the workers, whether working stiffs or top executives, feel good about life.

Many feel they are called to the priesthood, but what they really hear is an inner voice saying, 'It's indoor work with no heavy lifting, do you want to be a ploughman like your father?'

The moment you accept God's ordering, that moment your work ceases to be a task, and becomes your calling; you pass from bondage to freedom, from the shadow-land of life into life itself.

Work is the only thing that gives substance to life.

We do not work for men. We work for the land and the people. We do not even work for money.

Love and serve the world through your work.

Work did bestow dignity, status, meaning. Wasn't that why people dreaded unemployment, why some men found retirement so traumatic?

Life, in all ranks and situations, is an outward occupation, an actual and active work.

If you don't have a dream in life, I don't know what you have. You have to want something beyond your reach; it's exciting when it works out.