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Quotes About Purpose

But I have a good life. I enjoy what I do. I am married to work.
~ Henry Rollins
Life is too short, time is too precious, and the stakes are too high to dwell on what might have been. We have to work together for what still can be.
~ Hillary Clinton
Why do we work so hard to feel so terrible?
~ Hollis Stacy
Obvious enough that generalities work to protect the mind from the great outdoors; is it possible that this was in fact their first purpose?
~ Howard Nemerov
Almost everywhere men have become the particular things which their particular work has made them.
~ J. G. Holland
Once imbued with the idea of a mission, a great nation easily assumes that it has the means as well as the duty to do God's work.
~ J. William Fulbright
The frivolous work of polished idleness.
~ James Mackintosh
If you've got to work for the rest of your life, you'd better do something you'll enjoy.
~ James Sinegal
Man is immortal till his work is done.
~ James Williams
I am glad to think I am not bound to make the world go right, but only to discover and to do, with cheerful heart, the work that God appoints.
~ Jean Ingelow
When work seems like a job, I don't do it anymore.
~ Jill Wagner
You know when I think about what I'm doing - what I'm doing and the way I'm doing it is more important to me than any amount of money or anything like that because it's my artistic work.
~ Jimmy Wales
Know'st thou yesterday, its aim and reason? Work'st thou will today for worthier things? Then calmly wait the morrow's hidden season, And fear thou not, what hap soe'er it brings
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
You will never fulfill your destiny doing work you despise.
~ John C. Maxwell
Part of Steve's job was to drum into us how important what we were doing actually would be to the world.
~ Andy Hertzfeld
Steve always said that he didn't care if anyone remembered him, as long as they remembered his message.
~ Terri Irwin
We were created to take care of, steward the land. That is mankind's purpose on earth, to steward and take care of the land as it feeds off of it.
~ Wes Studi
I feel like God's given me a gift that I want to steward and share with the world.
~ Andy Mineo
We try to stick pretty close to what our goals are and what we believe and what we enjoy doing in life - just simple things.
~ Priscilla Chan
The truth is, if we have our own reasons for doing something - reasons that we endorse - we're more likely to do it; we're more likely to stick with it.
~ Daniel H. Pink
The things that make us unique, the things that make us different, the sometimes unique positions we're in our calling. By sticking true, we can ultimately do something that can change the world for the better.
~ Tyler Henry
I still live, I still think: I still have to live, for I still have to think.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
A noble purpose inspires sacrifice, stimulates innovation and encourages perseverance.
~ Gary Hamel
I looked to books to stimulate my mind and create a daily sense of purpose.
~ Amanda Knox