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Quotes About Purpose

the most comfortable characteristic of the period [1775-1825], and the one which incites our deepest envy, is the universal willingness to accept a good purpose as a substitute for good work.
~ Agnes Repplier
Move out man! Life is fleeting by. Do something worthwhile, berfore you die. Leave Behind a work sublime, that will outline you and time.
~ Alfred Armand Montapert
If you're going to devote the best years of your life to your work, have enough love for yourself and the world around you to work on something that matters to you deeply
~ Justin Rosenstein
My dad said 'When you love what you do, you never work a day in your life,' and I agree with that.
~ Hunter Hayes
Money is only a human invention. I get paid for my work, it's a system of trade, but it's not my purpose and reason for living.
~ Vanna Bonta
The secret of the missionary is...I am His, and He is carrying out His work through me.
~ Oswald Chambers
I promised myself I wouldn't work again until I found something that excited me.
~ Emily VanCamp
Work without love is slavery.
~ Mother Teresa
I am traveling less in order to be able to write more. I select my travel destinations according to their degree of usefulness to my work.
~ Jose Saramago
God has been pleased to prescribe limits to his power and to work out his ends within these limits.
~ William S. Paley
Find something in life that you love doing. If you make a lot of money, that's a bonus, and if you don't, you still won't hate going to work.
~ Jeff Foxworthy
The one thing I know through experience ... is that people don't know why they come to work until they don't have to come to work.
~ Ross Perot
He can talk to himself about his dreams, hopes and aspirations. He can convince himself that there is a place for him and an important work for him to do.
~ Wilferd Peterson
I don't think nothing. I just do my work.
~ Lil Wayne
As far as career goes, make sure you're in it for the right reasons - and make sure that the work itself is the most important thing.
~ Clive Owen
work is happiness. No one can take my work from me and therefore no one can take my happiness from me.
~ Marie Corelli
If we fix a goal and work towards it, then we are never just passing time.
~ Anna Neagle
If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.
~ Alan Bennett
Even if your work touches one person, that's an amazing gift.
~ Sherilyn Fenn
We work for that part of our vision which is uncompleted.
~ Frederick Sommer
The work of a man is the explanation of the man.
~ Paul Gauguin
It's true that things are beautiful when they work. Art is function.
~ Giannina Braschi
If a man does not work at necessary and good things, then he will work at unnecessary and stupid things
~ Leo Tolstoy
I can't die now, I have so much work to do.
~ John Gresham Machen