Quotes About Purpose

A career is all very well, but no one lives by work alone.

The most important thing is work.

Work is always my salvation and I will celebrate it.

I still want to do my work. I still want to do my livingness. And I have lived. I have been fulfilled. I recognized what I had, and I never sold it short. And I ain't through yet.

I don't demand that all work be a masterpiece. What I am doing is the right thing for me - that is what I am and this is living. It reflects me and I reflect it.

Your goal is to make a better world through the work you do. It's not always possible, and you have to earn a living.

You're not going to do good work if you're not choosing something because it inspires you.

Working at what you enjoy is far more important than what you're working at.

I have always said that your work stays with you for a long time, and I try to get involved in projects where I truly believe if I had to do them again, I would the same way.

In the morning, when you are sluggish about getting up, let this thought be present: 'I am rising to a man's work.'

When you have trouble getting out of bed in the morning, remember that your defining characteristic-what defines a human being-is to work with others.

At day's first light have in readiness, against disinclination to leave your bed, the thought that "I am rising for the work of man."

Hast thou reason? I have. Why then dost not thou use it? For if this does its own work, what else dost thou wish?

If you don't love your work, it's hard to love your life.

I have work to do as a human being.

Think of your career as your ministry. Make your work an expression of love in service to mankind.

Don't go to work to make money; go to work to spread joy.

I don't want to do something just for money or fame; I have to enjoy working on it! If I start to work for everyone and everything, I could not look at myself in the mirror again.

Find something you love, because if you love what you do, you'll never spend a day at work.

No one is satisfied with their life's work.

I think it would make the world a little bit better place if everyone was doing what they loved to do. ... I'm doing it and I'm loving it.

Creating ways to be happy is your life's work, a challenge that won't end until you die.

The work that I do, I am grateful to do and honored and privileged to do, but I do it for my family and, if you don't have a family, then what does it mean?

I believe that dignified work is a value in itself.