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Quotes About Purpose

Unless we put heart and soul into our labor we but brutify our actions.
~ Josh Billings
I literally want to work until I'm in the grave.
~ KaDee Strickland
Waking up and having a project to work on is one of life's great pleasures.
~ Kelly Reichardt
Work is life for me, it is the only point of life - and with it there is almost religious belief that service is everything.
~ Laurence Olivier
I work every day. I was flying the other day. and I was like, where am I flying? I have no idea, I work so much.
~ Lily Aldridge
Not to sound cliché or anything, but with the downtime that I have and the possible platform that my work could give me, I'd like to figure out a way to give back and make a difference, you know?
~ Luke Grimes
Even in my dreams of being an actor, my dream was not in the celebrity. My dream was in the work that I wanted to do.
~ Lupita Nyong'o
The man who built the manger had a purpose in mind... God had another. You'll never know how far reaching God's plan is for your work.
~ Mark Hart
I wanted to hurry into the work of my life; I wanted to know, whoever I was, I was alive for a little while.
~ Mary Oliver
Your own efforts "did not bring it to pass," only God-but rejoice if God found a use for your efforts in His work.
~ Meister Eckhart
I don't have to work. I suppose I should retire. But I enjoy working.
~ Michael Caine
Only a literary work that reveals an unknown fragment of human existence has a reason for being.
~ Milan Kundera
Without work men are utterly undone
~ Nevil Shute
When you find your authentic self, your identity - your true identity - how many people work a job they hate or live a life, they're going oh my gosh.
~ Paula White
Unless a decision has degenerated into work, it is not a decision; it is at best a good intention.
~ Peter Drucker
Get up; repent. Come to God. Get the pattern of your life from Him, and then go about your work and be yourself.
~ Phillips Brooks
If there is no Caller, there are no callings - only work.
~ Os Guinness
If you work without love, you are working like a slave. When you work with love, you work like an emperor. Your work is your joy, your work is your dance.
~ Rajneesh
The highest happiness is a by-product of worthy work well done.
~ Rene Auberjonois
Put your passions to work to make this world a better place.
~ Richard Branson
God wants to use you to make a difference in His world. He wants to work through you. What matters is not the duration of your life, but the donation of it. Not how long you lived, but how you lived.
~ Rick Warren
I want to work and be happy.
~ Rickie Lee Jones
Those who labor for bread or money alone are condemned to their reward.
~ Robert Grudin
My work means everything to me.
~ Robin Gibb