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Quotes About Purpose

I get to hang out with people I think are awesome, and do work I think is awesome. It's really cool.
~ Harold Perrineau
One never finds life worth living. One always has to make it work living.
~ Harry Emerson Fosdick
Our task is to relate our lives to God, and let Him work through us.
~ Henry Blackaby
This sounds really corny, but I am a slave to my work, a workaholic, and glad of it. I like what I do; this is my place, my little universe, one of them.
~ Henry Rollins
I'm a happy man because whatever I'm doing, I do for myself and I do a little creating here and there for others, and they work out very well.
~ Jack Kirby
I really enjoy my time off. If I'm going to go to work, it has to be something I really believe in, or else it's totally tedious.
~ John C. Reilly
Please give me fifty more years of work and fun, then an instant death when I'm sleeping.
~ John Grisham
The sweat of industry would dry and die, But for the end it works to.
~ William Shakespeare, Cymbeline
Work usually follows will.
~ William James
Man was designed in a way in which he must eat in order to give him a solid reason to go to work everyday. This helps to keep him out of trouble. God is wise.
~ Criss Jami, Killosophy
I do not care about happiness simply because I believe that joy is something worth fighting for.
~ Criss Jami, Killosophy
He would work through the night and sleep until lunch. There wasn't really much else to do. Make something, and die.
~ Ian McEwan, Amsterdam
I can only strive for what is important
~ Rosie Thomas, Iris & Ruby
When you do your work happily, work will disappear.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
If people just want to be famous, that's just not enough to get you up at 4 in the morning to go to work. You have to love what you're doing.
~ Zooey Deschanel
At the end of the day, I don't need to work, and I think it's good that I have the drive and willpower to get up and do something in the morning even though I don't need to.
~ Petra Stunt
I feel so thankful that I'm able to be a part of something that I love to wake up and run to work every day.
~ Alexander Wang
When you're doing work you care about, you are able to work harder and better.
~ Reid Hoffman
I feel mushy these days when I think about art and artists and the work that lies ahead for us. There's good work to be done and there's joy to be found in it, I think.
~ Ava DuVernay
That's what we're all sort of trying to do in our lives - to make the simplest things work out the best.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
Career success is using your daily work, schoolwork, work in the world, work at home, as a way of advancing your mental state.
~ Frederick Lenz
It was good work, the kind of work that let you sleep soundly at night and, when you awoke, look forward to the day.
~ Jeannette Walls
People who love work, love life.
~ Louise Fitzhugh
No use in waiting, we can all work hard to bring about changes.
~ Noam Chomsky