Quotes About Purpose

At a certain age it just became apparent to me that this was probably the work that I would have to do.

When I do work, I feel the same sort of urgency as I ever did. If I didn't feel that, I don't think I would wish to be doing it. I wouldn't really see the point.

I feel less often compelled to do the work than I was in the past.

We do not choose between a life of difficulty and a life of ease. We simply choose for what purpose we will work, sometimes suffer, and hopefully endure.

Every day matters. I think so. I do. But I really have to work to force myself to see its value sometimes.

It's a lot of work living the life that you want to live, but that's what I'm doing.

The majority of people consider their work a means to an end. People who work for money only come to the end faster than people who are involved in their life's purpose every day.

Winners can tell you where they are going and what they plan to do along the way.

Vision remains vision until you focus, do the work, and bring it down to earth where it will do some good.

Death is not a stalker, always looking for us. Death is a scorekeeper tallying up how much we love life and how much we are willing to work for it. We die when we stop living.

Man is happy only as he finds work worth doing - and does it well

The essence of the game is not "fun," but the soul-satisfying awareness that comes from communal work and sacrifice.

Ordinary work, which is what most of us do, most of the time, is ordained by God every bit as much as is the extraordinary.

If you have anything better to be doing when death overtakes you, get to work on that.

A life well lived is the most exquisite work of art.

The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way.

A clear conscience is, for me, an occupied conscience-never empty-the conscience of a man at work until his last breath.

If a man does not go about his work with enthusiasm, it means that he has not yet found a work that he likes. Every mortal is a busy bee when he comes to the task that Destiny has set aside for him.

Every man's work, pursued steadily, tends to become an end in itself, and so to bridge over the loveless chasms of his life.

Let the spirit of your work be right, and whether your task be great or small you will then have the satisfaction of knowing it is worth while.

A man can never be idle with safety and advantage until he has been so trained by work that he makes his freedom from times and tasks more fruitful than his toil has been.

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

It is work which gives flavor to life.

I counted solely on the clarity of expression of my work to gain my ends.