Quotes About Purpose

For you also came into existence not when you chose, but when the world had need of you.

The long view is good for morale. If it is an affront to the ego, it is also an antidote to vanity, ambition, and greed. Our ultimate insignificance makes the case for living well in the present, for no other purpose survives. It also suggests the value of viewing oneself as part of a whole.

You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.

What do you want to say? Why does it need to be said

To figure out the internal values, Yamashita urges company leaders to look back in time and consider this question: Who have we (as a company) historically been when we've been at our best? At the finest moments in a company's history, Yamashita holds, its core values usually came shining through. But from time to time it may be necessary to revisit that past to reaffirm the company's higher purpose.

At the same time, as Yamashita points out, it's just as important to look forward when asking big questions about purpose. He urges clients to work on Whom must we fearlessly become? That can be a difficult challenge, he says, because it requires "envisioning a version of the company that does not exist yet.

Keith Yamashita says companies can try to find their cause by asking, What does the world hunger for?

There comes a time when you ought to start doing what you want. Take a job that you love. You will jump out of bed in the morning. I think you are out of your mind if you keep taking jobs that you don't like because you think it will look good on your resume. Isn't that a little like saving up sex for your old age?

brief, I saw how "dad deprivation" and the purpose void had a compounding effect.

Helping your son develop his sense of purpose requires beginning at a very different place than his dad-or granddad. His dad or granddad was told his sense of purpose. Your job is to help your son find his sense of purpose.

Our supreme task is the resumption of our onward, normal way.

A successful life is one that is lived through understanding and pursuing one's own path, not chasing after the dreams of others. —Chin-Ning Chu

Your life is God's gift. Your deeds are God's reward. And God watches.

If you're thinking about your career, you probably don't have one.

Great minds have purposes, little minds have wishes.

Great minds have purposes, others have wishes. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.

Great minds have purpose, others have wishes. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortunes; but great minds rise above them.

Great minds have purposes, others have wishes.

The onlooker turns from the artist who has higher ideals and who cannot see his life purpose in an art without aims.

Good is not always God's will, but God's will is always good.

Man's thought is always of the punishment that will come to him if he sins. God's thought is always of the glory man will miss if he sins. God's purpose for redemption is glory, glory, glory.

I need his dreams. Life isn't life without them. And if he can give me the dreams, I think I can hold the rest together.

I mean, I think we're put here on earth to make your own destiny, to begin with. I don't think there's anything you can do this way or that way to change anything.

Your] dream will challenge, prod and haunt you until you surrender to its call.