Quotes About Purpose

For most people, life would be boring without meaningful work.

The Christian faith gives us a new conception of work as the means by which God loves and cares for his world through us.

We don't merely need the money from work to survive. We need the work itself to survive and live fully human lives more than money.

Everything that I've done in my life was to lead me to my work with the animals.

I don't work for money any longer. I work for pride.

I never want to retire until the day I drop dead. I want to work and work and work because work, I don't do for money, I do for love. And I love to work.

Doing something you enjoy at times of your own choosing and making a living from it: now tell me, is that work?

I just want to do good work.

To serve grand ideas with a major work is not bad, nor is it all there's to art.

Pay me for my work, but I don't do it for the money.

I take my work seriously, but it's not the only thing that exists in the world.

I simply seem to drift. But I sort of allow the drift, because it has a kind of check - it forces me to work harder at what I'm interested in.

A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

As good play for nothing, you know, as work for nothing.

The old and honorable idea of 'vocation' is simply that we each are called, by God, or by our gifts, or by our preference, to a kind of good work for which we are particularly fitted.

Work is a way of shutting out ambiguous sentiment.

Have I done anything for society? I have then done more for myself. Let that question and truth be always present to thy mind, and work without cessation.

When an artist leaves his work to amuse people, he loses his time and their respect. If people are to be amused by artists, it must be by employing them in their legitimate occupation.

How is it that you live, and what is it you do?

We don't live by just sleeping and eating. We need pride and dignity in our lives. Work gives you that.

There is an incredible love in creating art unless somebody is saying, 'Hey, let's just make money,' because it doesn't work when you do it that way. If you are aiming for that, forget it.

I just try to let myself really focus on the work that's ahead of me and what my job is and how I bring something to life.

Employment was invented to make education seem useful.

Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.