Quotes About Purpose

What we are is much more important to Him than what we do for Him. We mean far more to God than the work we do.

It's when someone has an agenda of their own for the record that it doesn't work for me.

I'm very happy. I like my work and the various aspects of it - going around the world, teaching the gospel according to St. Albert.

There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I can lead them.

Work is what you do so that sometime you won't have to do it anymore.

My work is about my life, and what I want to do with it.

Life is too short to be doing work that doesn't make you feel happy and fulfilled. I'd rather wait for the right project, as opposed to just taking whatever is handed to me.

It's better not to work than to work in something you don't want to be working in.

Occupation was one of the pleasures of paradise, and we cannot be happy without it.

My belief of book writing is much the same as my belief as to shoemaking. The man who will work the hardest at it, and will work with the most honest purpose, will work the best.

It is clear that there is some difference between ends: some ends are energeia [energy], while others are products which are additional to the energeia.

There's a balance between what you want to give the world and what it needs. If you're lucky, your work is in the middle.

Productiveness is your acceptance of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live.

Most of us will have more than one job in our working lives, which means we will have more than one opportunity to seek meaningful work at different stages of our own deepening humanity.

Her profession's her religion, her sin is lifelessness.

Outstanding leaders have a sense of mission, a belief in themselves and the value of their work.

I'm trying to figure out the trick of working to live as opposed to living to work, but I don't know if I've quite stumbled upon it just yet.

Work, which is considered an expression of a person's value, also becomes a part of one's spirituality and achieves the higher aim of the Supreme Good

Those of us who have been lucky enough to experience a calling in our work have a certain faith and peace of mind that it's exactly when we're supposed to be doing.

If you're worried about life-work balance, something is probably wrong with your life or your work. Instead of agonizing over balance, get excited and create change.

The only plan I have is to not do anything I don't want to do - and to never work just for money.

I guess what we know about the Avengers is there's a reason why all of the heroes that we've been meeting, from Thor to Captain America - everybody - they need to work together.

Remember that work is not a place for self-fulfillment. If it were, you would know it.

A human being isn't meant to be some kind of machine designed only for production. No. Human life isn't just for work.