Quotes About Purpose

DON'T MISTAKE ACTIVITY FOR ACHIEVEMENT

Never mistake mere activity for accomplishment

Results matter. They matter a great deal. But if this is an organization's singular purpose, then the people who sign on are often doing it for the wrong reasons.

Make Every Day Your Masterpiece!

A Successful Journey Is the Destination

you should learn as if you were going to live forever, and live as if you were going to die tomorrow.

I have prepared for death all of my life by the life I lived." Socrates was at peace with himself.

Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value. —ALBERT EINSTEIN

I don't have Paul's calling - I'm not out there being all things to all men to win them for Christ - but sometimes I can be a signpost. Sometimes I can sow a seed. And post-hole diggers and seed sowers are mighty important in the building of the Kingdom.

I felt I would live a long, lonely, useless life and die alone and unmissed (did I mention that I never bothered filling out any grad-school applications?) It's self-indulgent, I know, but this is what happens to the overachieving but essentially useless children of parents who raised their children to do well on tests but failed to equip them with the poison-tipped spurs of true ambition.

Was it wise of me at all to have confined my career to one small classroom in one small town? Wouldn't I be coming away from my life's work with a higher heart if I hadn't been washing the same blackboard for forty-six years?

If we are not careful, it is all too easy to fall into becoming more of a human doing than a human being, and forget who is doing all the doing, and why.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." His deepest conviction: "To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts…. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake. How could I have looked him in the face?

we scarcely have time for being anymore, or even for catching our breath, literally and metaphorically—to say nothing of time for knowing what we are doing as we are doing it, and why.

are using the word practice here in a special way. It does not mean a rehearsal or a perfecting of some skill so that we can put it to use at some other time. In the meditative context, practice means "being in the present on purpose." The means and the end of meditation are really the same. We are not trying to get somewhere else, only working

The challenge for each of us is to find out who we are and to live our way into our own calling.we do this by paying close attention to all aspects of life as they unfold in the present moment.

Personal motivations to live are known to sometimes influence survival.

There have been men before now who got so interested in proving the existence of God that they came to care nothing for God Himself. As if the Good Lord had nothing better to do than exist!

May God give us much more grace to eagerly devote ourselves for the Great Commission.

If the Christian life seems boring, I suggest you may be DOING IT WRONG!

My path was predetermined by God.

God is so much bigger than our 'what ifs' that he can turn them into 'why nots

Most of what you do to fulfill God's purposes will require acts of faith.

The world offers you comfort. But you were not made for comfort. You were made for greatness