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Quotes About Purpose

I hope that my work helps people - that's the thing that drives me and keeps me going.
~ Lynsey Addario
I came to believe that being a private detective was the work I was meant to do.
~ Shirley Jackson
..... your real work is to decide what you want and then to focus upon it. For it is through focusing upon what you want that you will attract it. That is the process of creating
~ Esther Hicks
Your work is going to fill a large part of your life... so love what you do. Your time is limited. Don't waste it.
~ Steve Jobs
Look at each day as a chance to invest life into life. A chance to share your experience and deposit it into someone else's conscience. Each day is a chance to work miracles in the lives of others.
~ Jim Rohn
If a man cannot do brain work without stimulants of any kind, he had better turn to hand work it is an indication on Nature's part that she did not mean him to be a head worker.
~ Thomas Huxley
The object of living is work, experience, happiness.
~ Henry Ford
Part of your purpose in life is to build strong and fruitful relationships with others, and your work setting is a perfect place to start.
~ Zig Ziglar
I have discovered the secret of happiness - it is work, either with the hands or the head. The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.
~ John Burroughs
Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.
~ Napoleon Hill
A building is no good if someone's got to explain to you why it's good. You can't say you don't know enough about architecture - that's ridiculous. It's got to work on many levels.
~ David Chipperfield
Congenial labor is essence of happiness.
~ Arthur Christopher Benson
I was very much on the mathematical side, where you probably do your best work before you're forty-five. Having passed that significant date, I thought I would do something else.
~ John Polkinghorne
You have to be very committed and find happiness in the work that you do.
~ Zoe Saldana
To work without pleasure or affection, to make a product that is not both useful and beautiful, is to dishonor God, nature, the thing that is made, and whomever it is made for.
~ Wendell Berry
Don't just work for the money; that will bring only limited satisfaction
~ Kathy Ireland
Whether the task is writing, design, or hanging a picture straight, it is obvious that we do our best work when healthy, rested, refreshed, alert, and eager to do the job for its own sake.
~ Jeffrey Zeldman
You've got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers.
~ Steve Jobs
I try to pace myself and not work for the sake of working and stick to what inspired me prior to receiving recognition.
~ Adrien Brody
I do believe that God has his hands on me and that he has work for me to do.
~ Billy Preston
Man in the world's life works out the dreams of God.
~ Sri Aurobindo
There's nothing of any importance in life-except how well you do your work.
~ Ayn Rand
You cannot be really first-rate at your work if your work is all you are.
~ Anna Quindlen
The key is not to worry about being successful, but to instead to work toward being significant - and the success will naturally follow.
~ Oprah Winfrey