Quotes About Purpose

If it falls to your lot to be a street sweeper, sweep the streets like Michelangelo painted pictures, like Shakespeare wrote poetry, like Beethoven composed music; sweep streets so well that all the host of Heaven and earth will have to pause and say, "Here lived a great street sweeper, who swept his job well."1 MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.

Difficulties, disappointments, discouragements, and suffering are a part of every work experience, but they need not be seen as obstacles to God's purposes in our lives.

Would it not make sense that God not only wants to join us in our work but to increasingly conform us into greater Christlikeness while we work?

Your distress about life might mean you have been living for the wrong reason, not that you have no reason for living.

And medecine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love: these are what we stay alive for.

Why else do we live, except to be loved and remembered by those we love?

Be happy -- if you're not even happy, what's so good about surviving?

God's away, God's away, God's away on business. Business!

Modeling, for me, was not fulfilling. I didn't see the point - although I was able to travel a great deal. I lived in Italy, Germany, and Spain, but I wasn't devoted to it.

because organizing "anti" is easier than building "pro.

All things happen for a reason . . . even No Reason is still a reason.

Doing what you love is freedom, loving what you do is happiness.

I am convinced that we are here for a reason and when I figure it out I will let you know.

There are two reasons why a person does something, one that sounds good and the real one.

Before man ventures into daydreams about his futuristic society, he should first immerse himself in the nothingness of his being, and finally restore life to what it is all about: a working hypothesis.

If you love your job, you haven't worked a day in your life.

Become the person God commands you to be, and let Him handle the timing.

goals are important to you and how you are going to accomplish them—the action plan! So before attempting to create your own self-talk, invest the time and mental effort, as

The most successful people in the world are those who have taken the time to figure out exactly who they want to become and what they want to achieve. Then they invest the hours of their days in activities consistent with these ideals.

You have no greater responsibility than to determine what God put you here on earth to accomplish.

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These definitions vary, but I suppose there is a dose of truth in each one. The most successful people in the world are those who have taken the time to figure out exactly who they want to become and what they want to achieve. Then they invest the hours of their days in activities consistent with these ideals.

Now let's move a little deeper into the concept of Genius, and in particular, how it applies to your work. Your area of Genius is the specific point where what you enjoy doing most intersects with what you do best. This is where you are capable of making the greatest contribution in the world. Excellence is inevitable once you find this Genius.

Take away the miseries and you take away some folks' reason for living.