Quotes About Purpose

People not only need a gospel-inspired vision of work, but they need a new vision of the Scriptures.

It hardly seemed fair, because, unlike a horse or a Seeing Eye dog, the whole glory of being a bird is that nobody would ever put you to work.

Okay then. The destiny didn't work with the Chosen One. So I'll do it instead.

The one thing I always said to myself was that when baseball started to feel more like a job, it would be time to move forward.

It's only a little difficult to say no. You've got to believe that the work you're doing is ultimately more useful to the world.

I went to work to make money, not because I was bored. It was money that I wanted.

Get to work because Mother Earth needs you right now.

We ought to recognise the profound gulf between the work to which we are 'called' and the work we are forced into as a means of livelihood.

If all men and women were kept at some useful employment there would be less sorrow and wickedness in the world.

I wonder a lot about making things meaningful. You want to do meaningful work and make art, but you're making records, which is good, but you don't want to weight them - it's a very curious thing.

Destiny is what we work toward. The future doesn't exist yet. Fate is for losers!

You really have to wonder why we even bother to get up in the morning. I mean, really: Why work? Simply to buy more stuff?

Time is more than just a work issue; it's also a life issue. The way you spend your time defines the life you life.

There can be associations - enlightened businesses, for example - that do not work on the basis of us against them or wanting profit as the main motivating force behind what they do.

Work backward from your goal.

I guess if you're doing God's work, whatever you do is in His name.

The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is love, laughter, and work.

I would not be happy unless I had some regular work to do every day and I imagine that I will always feel that way no matter how old I am.

I never thought of achievement. I just did what came along for me to do - the thing that gave me the most pleasure.

You must find another reason to work, other than the desire for success or recognition. It must come from another place.

Now I'm able to align my work and creative life with who I am.

The work became like the drug addiction, the clothes, anything in my life. It became - it's become an addiction. I'm addicted to working.

One big reason I do what I do is there's no two days alike. It's not work for me. It's my life. My passion.

You must hold hard to life and do it. But life is a cheap thing beside a man's work. The only thing is that you need it. Hold it tight.