Quotes About Purpose

We leave lucrative jobs to take low-paying ones that provide a clearer sense of purpose.

All the deaths are dead for nothing but you're not dead at all.

I am. Trying, I'm trying it. But he means something else. I'm trying it like, you find a coin on the table and you spin it for no reason but to see it happen. He's trying it like medical school, because maybe he'll grow up to be a doctor.

Whatever happens to me, I will have lived a thousand normal lives by what I might add to others not yet born. That's enough.

Sinto medo. Não da vida ou da morte ou do nada, mas de desperdiçá-la, como se eu nunca tivesse existido.

It's confusing, but I'm going to find out all about my life.

Life and work are the most wonderful things a man can have. I am in love with what I am doing, because the answer to this problem is right here in my mind, and soon—very soon—it will burst into consciousness.

Whatever happens to me, I will have lived a thousand normal lives by what I might add to others not yet born. That's enough.

This day was good for me. I've got to stop this childish worrying about myself—my past and my future. Let me give something of myself to others. I've got to use my knowledge and skills to work in the field of increasing human intelligence.

I am afraid. Not of life, or death, or nothingness, but of wasting it as if I had never been. And as I start through the opening, I feel the pressure around me, propelling me in violent wavelike motions toward the mouth of the cave

money is the consequence of working, not the goal.

Instead of focusing on imagined rewards, focus on serving God's other children, for they are your customers.

TEACHER seeks pupil. Must have an earnest desire to save the world. Apply in person.

There must be something terribly wrong with me that I'm unable to find joy in the world of work. He always wrote. And of course all his friends were forever saying to him What's wrong with you that you can't get this wonderful program? Perhaps you understand for the first time now that my role here is to bring you this tremendous news, that there's nothing wrong here with YOU. You are not what's wrong.

Because the tribe is its members, the tribe is what its members want it to be—nothing more and nothing less.

If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.

For it is plain as anyone can see. We're simply meant to be.

I always try to put a seed of hope into people's hearts. I'm not there to teach them doctrine necessarily, but to let them know that God is a good God, and has a plan for their lives. Hopefully, that will restore their faith, or draw them into faith.

For Christian faith not to be idle in the world, the work of doctors and garbage collectors, business executives and artists, stay-at-home moms or dads and scientists needs to be inserted into God's story with the world. That story needs to provide the most basic rules by which the game in all these spheres is played.

I'm a Christian, and I believe that God has a plan and a purpose for each one of our lives and that He can intercede in all kinds of situations, and we need to have a little faith in many things.

You know, I'm a Christian and I believe that God has a plan and a purpose for each one of our lives and that he can intercede in all kinds of situations and we need to have a little faith in many things.

I have tremendous faith in God that all things happen for a reason, even if we don't understand.

Reality TV is to popular because it allows so many people to sit on the sidelines and just watch somebody else's life. God is saying, 'Don't sit on the sidelines of life. I have put so much in you, but you have got to be strong and very courageous. You have got to step out in faith.'

Neither man nor woman is perfect or complete without the other. Thus, no marriage or family, no ward or stake is likely to reach its full potential until husbands and wives, mothers and fathers, men and women work together in unity of purpose, respecting and relying upon each other's strengths.