Quotes About Purpose

Each time thou wishest to decide upon performing some enterprise, raise the eyes to heaven, pray God to bless thy project; if thou canst make that prayer, accomplish thy work.

Labor, in itself, is neither elevating or otherwise. It is the laborer's privilege to ennoble his work by the aim with which he undertakes it, and by the enthusiasm and faithfulness he puts into it.

The true work of God is all good, since it is existence.

Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning. Once it does, it becomes the kind of thing that makes you grab your wife around the waist and dance a jig.

People who labor all their lives but have no purpose to direct every thought and impulse toward are wasting their time-even when hard at work.

Do what you love. Do what makes your heart sing. And NEVER do it for the money, Go to work to spread joy.

it was a sly trick of God's to give a man work to do - it kept him from asking questions that God couldn't answer.

We honor life when we work. The type of work is not important: the fact of work is. All work feeds the soul if it is honest and done to the best of our abilities and if it brings joy to others.

There are lots of jobs in search of talent. And there's lots of talent in search of meaningful work.

Art, along with all work is the ordering of creation toward the intention of the creator.

I don't claim anything of the work. It is his work. I am like a little pencil in his hand. That is all. He does the thinking. He does the writing. The pencil has nothing to do with it.

During my boxing career, you did not see the real Muhammad Ali. You just saw a little boxing and a little showmanship. It was after I retired from boxing that my true work began.

Make your Vocation into Vacation and you will not have to work a single day.

To retire is the beginning of death.

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

I am just a man, not fit to do the work of God... or the Devil.

My work with churches has led me to the conclusion that the single most important element in having an effective and life-changing ministry is to capture God's vision for your ministry."

I try to live my life in such a way that I don't have any regrets. That's probably why I work so much. I don't want to feel I missed something important.

People thrive by focusing on the question of who they really are - and connecting that to work that they truly love .

he wanted to do, to be, to feel- and could not; he wanted sense, he wanted purpose- in Freud's words, 'Work and Love'.

When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

I put my talent in my work, I save my Genius for my life.

I help people as a way to work on myself, and I work on myself to help people... To me, that's what the emerging game is all about.

I don't want to say work is who I am, but some people feel more centered and more whole when they're producing and creating.