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Quotes About Purpose

There are certain natures to whom work is nothing the act of work everything.
~ Arthur Symons
Here I am where I ought to be.
~ Louise Erdrich
To find in ourselves what makes life worth living is risky business for it means that once we know we must seek it. It also means that without it life will be valueless.
~ Marsha Sinetar
You have to do what you love to do not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.
~ Unknown
One's lifework I have learned grows with the working and the living. Do it as if your life depended on it and first thing you know you'll have made a life out of it. A good life too.
~ Unknown
One principal reason why men are so often useless is that they neglect their own profession or calling and divide and shift their attention among a multitude of objects and pursuits.
~ Nathaniel Emmons
Do your duty until it becomes your joy.
~ Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
To love what you do and feel that it matters-how could anything be more fun?
~ Katherine Graham
When people go to work they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
~ Betty Bender
I have worked all my life wanted to work all my life needed to work all my life.
~ Liz Carpenter
Whether we call it a job or a career work is more than just something we do. It is a part of who we are.
~ Anita Hill
People should tell their children what life is all about-it's about work.
~ Lauren Bacall
For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating rejuvenating exciting and satisfying.
~ Kathe Kollwitz
I believe you are your work. Don't trade the stuff of your life time for nothing more than dollars. That's a rotten bargain
~ Rita Mae Brown
When you're following your energy and doing what you want all the time the distinction between work and play dissolves.
~ Shakti Gawain
It is not hard work that is dreary it is superficial work
~ Edith Hamilton
I never did anything worth doing by accident nor did any of my inventions come by accident they came by work.
~ Thomas Alva Edison
Whether you're an obstetrician or a third-grade teacher or a real estate agent, you know when you're doing good work. You're passionate about it.
~ Susan Isaacs
I find that a man is as old as his work. If his work keeps him from moving forward, he will look forward with the work.
~ William Ernest Hocking
When I got religion, I found some work to do to benefit somebody.
~ Sojourner Truth
Man, who is he? Too bad, to be the work of God: Too good for the work of chance!
~ Doris Lessing
Work on something that matters. Have courage.
~ Ginni Rometty
Real success is finding you lifework in the work that you love.
~ David McCullough
Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.
~ Robin G. Collingwood