Quotes About Purpose

Her work, I really think her work is finding what her real work is and doing it, her work, her own work, her being human, her being in the world.

My work is writing, but my real work is being.

Just do it. Get it down on the page. Work hard. And then let go. Ask yourself why you want to write. You have to be clear about that.

We must work earnestly in the best light He gives us.

If you intend to go to work there is no better place than right where you are; if you do not intend to go to work, you can not get along anywhere.

Never forget that it is the spirit with which you endow your work that makes it useful or futile.

I believe people work for satisfaction.

It's a blessing to have work that feels fulfilling.

It would scarcely be acceptable, for example, to ask in the course of an ordinary conversation what our society holds to be the purpose of work.

It is really a puzzle what drives one to take one's work so devilishly seriously.

I wouldn't want to live if I did not have my work. In any case, it's good that I'm already old and personally don't have to count on a prolonged future.

In every work regard the writer's end, Since none can compass more than they intend.

Doth Nature draw me, 'tis because, Unto my seeming, there doth lurk A lawlessness about her laws, More mood than purpose in her work.

I hold that a man had better be dead than alive when his work is done.

I want to be a saint, a real saint while I am young, for there is so much work to do.

If the student could give up her work on my advice, she had better give it up without it. One does not study for a goal. The goal is a mere accident.

My job ... I do nothing, it pays nothing, but - you guessed it - it's better than nothing.

A break in the established order is never the work of chance. It is the outcome of a man's resolve to turn life to account.

My work comes first, reasons for it follow.

This has been my life for many years; one role feeds the other. It is a joy to be an artist, but it doesn't mean very much unless that work is somehow useful in some way and contributes to others.

I know NBC pays my salary but I have never doubted who I work for. I think about the people who watch. They're the ones who matter to me.

In my experience, you get a job for a reason. Your work life happens for a reason.

If God lets me live, I shall attain more than Mummy ever has done, I shall not remain insignificant, I shall work in the world and for mankind!

Work isn't meaningful just because you spend your life doing it.