Quotes About Purpose

Whether people work for themselves or for others, they increasingly want to understand how their actions are contributing to a greater good.They will want to be engaged in work that contributes to society.

So she asked, "If you're a machine, then what is your function? Why were you made?" "To know you. To love you. And to serve you.

While we may not be called to martyr our lives, we must martyr our way of life. We must put our selfish ways to death and march to a different beat. Then the world will see Jesus.

I told you, knowledge is our Holy Grail, and I daresay the wisdom possessed by the vampire would boggle your imagination. You see, we don't have political allegiances to worry about, or religion, or differing mores. We all work together for one purpose: to further our achievements and our learning.

Good writers serve their stories; bad writers serve their own agendas.

Much of the terror of death is terror of dying without having given. Without even finding what one has to give.

mission is not primarily about going. Nor is mission primarily about doing anything. Mission is about being.

But I know God has big stuff planned that ultimately doesn't have anything to do with me.

each one of us will face a moment when eternity whispers into our hearts, This is your time.

Powerful Leaders pursue a destiny rooted in relationships (Is that you?) not performance (Is that it?); what's in your destiny?

Powerful Leaders intentionally pursue their vocation of who they are not a career of what they do; what's calling you?

God is just as much in the journey as He is the destination.

The normal Christian life is one of problems, but always remember that every problem has passed through the hand of a loving Father and carries with it, before it ever arrives, an express, intrinsic purpose. Those in the midst of affliction usually find the purpose hidden, but the experienced sufferer knows it will prove to be glorious. Problems are God's main tool for bringing us to the end of our own resources and into the deep experience of all His riches.

Why we do what do matters. When we lose our why, we lose our way. We inevitably get lost when we don't know why we are doing what we are doing.

Whether it is overbearing parents, rebellious children, or an unfaithful spouse, God has the ability to transform our brokenness and use it to further his purposes. He also has a habit of using our dysfunction to deepen our devotion to him.

Sports don't define us it is not what we live for.

The campaign, on its face, was not designed to win anything.

purpose of actually changing the country. Changing it quickly, radically, and truly.

lack of discipline, focus, purpose.

Bannon's strategic view of government was shock and awe. Dominate rather than negotiate. Having daydreamed his way into ultimate bureaucratic power, he did not want to see himself as a bureaucrat. He was of a higher purpose and moral order. He was an avenger. He was also, he believed, a straight shooter. There was a moral order in aligning language and action—if you said you were going to do something, you do it.

Wherever your life ends, it is all there. The advantage of living is not measured by length, but by use; some men have lived long, and lived little; attend to it while you are in it. It lies in your will, not in the number of years, for you to have lived enough.

The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.

The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

My trade and my art is living.