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Quotes About Purpose

I am succeeding quite well in my work and the future looks well. What special mission is God preparing me for? Cutting off all earthly ties and isolating me as it were.
~ Ellen Swallow Richards
Work is the best thing to make us love life.
~ Ernest Renan
I have found out that though the ways in which I can make myself useful are few, yet the work open to me is endless.
~ Helen Keller
He who would really benefit mankind must reach them through their work.
~ Henry Ford
Those people work more wisely who seek to achieve good in their own small corner of the world ... than those who are forever thinking that life is in vain, unless one can. do big things.
~ Herbert Butterfield
Success is the by-product when you work toward the target.
~ Howard Schultz
The Socialists can scheme their schemes and the Liberals can dream their dreams, but we, at least, have work to do.
~ Hugh MacLennan
I can't stand still; I find it very difficult to sit around and do nothing. I've got to have projects on the go because the devil makes work for idle hands. I've got to be going forward all the time.
~ Irvine Welsh
Sometimes with people their work is the most important thing to them, and sometimes the work enables you to do other things that are more important to you. I probably am closer to that.
~ James Spader
I ask myself why I do it [work]. Maybe it's to prove I'm still around. It takes a lot out of my body. I'm not an NBA player anymore. At my age, very few people can handle it.
~ Jerry Stiller
So many missionaries, intent on doing something, forget that His main work is to make something of them.
~ Jim Elliot
Work is the only meanin' I've ever known.
~ Joe Frazier
It's so important what you're doing in your life. It's tremendously important to the work, and no aesthetic theories take that into account.
~ John Maus
Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Whatever you make, base it upon that which is most important to you. Only then will it have depth and meaning, and only then will it resonate with others.
~ Christopher Paolini, Eldest
Work is the best method devised for killing time.
~ William Feather
Those fortunate enough to find or create a practical intersection of the three circles have the basis for a great work life.
~ James C. Collins
Do work you love, in which you can excel: The smaller the gap between who you are in your personal life and who you are at work, the happier you will be.
~ Lauren Mackler
I used to think hard work made me come alive, honestly. I used to have a daily work schedule with millions of things on it and I thought, "This is wonderful!"
~ Li Bingbing
People in the White House work hard, whatever administration. They get rewarded in psychic income, a sense that they are involved in something bigger than themselves, that it's important.
~ Mark Shields
We all want to have a rich and meaningful work life and a fulfilling life beyond work.
~ Stewart D. Friedman
Dreams grow holy put in action; work grows fair through starry dreaming, But where each flows on unmingling, both are fruitless and in vain.
~ Adelaide Anne Procter
Whenever a man makes haste, God too hastens with him.
~ Aeschylus
God ever works with those who work with will.
~ Aeschylus