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Quotes About Purpose

A man's got to work for more than himself and his kids to feel right
~ John Dos Passos
Work isn't really work for me.
~ John Kluge
I don't think I have ever worked in my life, because work to me means that you are really doing something that you don't like.
~ John Kluge
Acting is kind of a calling for me so I'm just happy to be there and do great work.
~ John Leguizamo
I see no thread running through my work; I simply get on with my life and my painting.
~ John Piper
It is far better to give work that is above a person, than to educate the person to be above their work.
~ John Ruskin
God intends no man to live in this world without working, but it seems to me no less evident that He intends every man to be happy in his work.
~ John Ruskin
To do your own work well, whether it be for life or death.
~ John Ruskin
It is a nice thing to be working and believing in my work again. I hope I can keep the drive. I only feel whole and well when it is this way.
~ John Steinbeck
I'm trying to be really synced. It goes back to the idea that, ultimately, the reward is the work.
~ Jonathan Tucker
Not indolence but congenial work is man's Divinely allotted portion.
~ Joseph Hertz
I want to do good work, but having kids and a life outside of that is important, too. If you don't have anybody around who loves you, then what's it all for? You're just lonely in the end.
~ Josh Duhamel
Without work, so much of one's identity just evaporates.
~ Joshua Ferris
Your business needs a raison d'être. Be prepared to work 24 hours a day, and be willing to take risks. And you have to love it or you won't succeed.
~ Unknown
Most senators are just going to work and trying to do a job.
~ Judd Gregg
Work certainly does help fill a void.
~ Judi Dench
When we do what we really love, money will come, the door will open. We feel useful and work as a game that
~ Julia Cameron
When we let God be God and work through us, we experience both a sense of serenity and excitement.
~ Julia Cameron
I certainly take work as a joyous responsibility.
~ Julia Roberts
I've always wanted to go where the work was or where I was wanted. The idea that it can be planned is one I let go of a long time ago.
~ Julianne Moore
Success is a nice by-product but what I really want is work.
~ Juliette Lewis
I don't have to change the world all by myself, I just need to partner in the work God wants us to do.
~ Katharine Hayhoe
The lack of work destroys people.
~ Katharine Hepburn
I don't have to be a "gazillionaire;" what's important to me is to just being able to work.
~ Katharine McPhee