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Quotes About Purpose

I wondered, for the first time in my life, if life was worth all the work it took to live. What exactly made it worth it?
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
In leadership writ large, mutually agreed upon purposes help people achieve consensus, assume responsibility, work for the common good, and build community.
~ Joseph C. Rost
I'm more enthusiastic and excited about work than ever. I know now what I'm about.
~ Julian Sands
All work is empty save when there is love.
~ Khalil Gibran
I want to accomplish my work and fulfill my dreams, and do something with my life, and I hope I'll be able to accomplish it. It's very much work, but I like it.
~ Klaus Nomi
Work is and always has been my salvation and I thank the Lord for it.
~ Louisa May Alcott
Be strong! We are not here to play, to dream, to drift; We have hard work to do and loads to lift; Shun not the struggle-face it; 'tis God's gift.
~ Maltbie Davenport Babcock
That's the way I work and one day I won't have the energy to do it, so I think it's always good to make the most of your life and living as much as possible.
~ Marc Almond
Find something you love to do. If you don't make money at it, at least you love going to work.
~ Mark Cuban
The companies that work are the ones that people really care about and have a vision for the world so do something you like.
~ Mark Zuckerberg
Show so clearly that this matter is God's work, not mine.
~ Unknown
If you know much about your work - why you work, how you work, your aims - you are probably not a poet.
~ Mary Webb
If you perform your work viewing it as your dharma, your actions become sacred.
~ Mata Amritanandamayi
Consider any work you do, as work coming from God's will.
~ Mata Amritanandamayi
God has work for you to do.
~ Max Lucado
You are in the business of serving other people as you stand in the service of your destiny and express yourself through your work.
~ Michael Port
I had something to do, which most kids really need. Something they can look forward to - a goal, a purpose to work towards. Something to achieve. Keeps them out of trouble.
~ Muhammad Ali
The trick is, when you grow up, find work that feels like play.
~ Nathan Fillion
Even if work were not an economic necessity, it is a spiritual necessity.
~ Neal A. Maxwell
If you make something your life's work, make sure it's something you can feel proud of when you're an old relic like me.
~ Patrick Carman
A work of art is good if it has arisen out of necessity. That is the only way one can judge it.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
I was just glad to be going to work again.
~ Rebecca De Mornay
Your body is just a vessel for who you are as a person. And until you work on what you give back to the world, it doesn't matter what you look like on the outside.
~ Reese Witherspoon