Quotes About Purpose

Work is important to me. I want to do things for principle, not just for the sake of doing them.

I am actually retired - yes, I am retired. But I like to work. So I'm retired until someone calls me up to work.

Do all the work you can do, every day, and do each piece of work in a perfectly successful manner; put the power of success, and the purpose to get rich, into everything that you do.

So, it's nice to know that you've inspired someone to do their life's work.

Work done by human beings for human beings.

Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.

Leisure is the most challenging responsibility a man can be offered.

Most people spend their whole lives looking for the right job. There are others who never get an opportunity to do work that fulfils them.

I don't think that work ever really destroyed anybody. I think that lack of work destroys them a hell of a lot more.

A 'good job' can be both practically attractive while still not good enough to devote your entire life to.

Everybody has something, that one thing they must do to feel happy. I think this is yours, and I want you to be happy. You don't have to do it, but it's here if you choose to come back to it.

You can't make people work harder. People have to want to work hard and make a difference. Purpose matters.

In some ways you become who you really are, if you work hard enough on who you wish to be.

Whatever your life's work is, do it well.

Unless this love is among us, we can kill ourselves with work and it will only be work, not love. Work without love is slavery.

I work hard in the orchard, not for the money anymore, but for something I can't explain. Something worth more than money.

Fashion isn't me, even though I work in it. It's just materialistic stuff.

If people want to know who I am, it is all in the work.

You can only hope to get a combination of happy work and a happy life.

All the work you do, is done for your own salvation, is done for your own benefit.

When people freely identify with their work and find themselves through it, excellence follows.

I tried for a while to be an agricultural worker and was hopelessly bored. To me it was meaningless. I would stand around in heaps of manure and sings about the beauty of the work I wasn't doing.

When we reduce the notion of "calling" to work inside the church, we fail to equip our people to apply their Christian faith to everything they do, everywhere they are.

If we do not live where we work and when we work we are wasting our lives and our work too.