Quotes About Purpose

If you don't have a dream that leads you to greater dependence on God, then you need to get a bigger dream!

In Babel, the people 's greatest fear is the very thing God desires: To be scattered over the face of the earth.

I was ready to quit music. It felt to me like music equalled death.

if a student ever states that he is dead, the right answer is, "No, you aren't dead! I don't give you permission to die. I don't train people to die. I train them to live!

What in the world would I sing for if I had it all?

I can't believe that we would lie in our graves Wondering if we had spent our living days well I can't believe that we would lie in our graves Dreaming of things that we might have been

Savings without a mission is garbage. Your money needs to work for you, not lie around you.

Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare. JAPANESE PROVERB

At this stage in The Total Money Makeover, you are the Mr. Universe of Money, with serious abs, pecs, and quads. You have all this financial muscle, so now you should do something intentional with it. It is not just to look at. We built this financial superbody for a reason. To have FUN, INVEST, and GIVE.

Goals convert vision into energy. When you lay out exactly what you want to do in detail, you immediately start feeling the room move and the earth shake. You are pulled into your new life like some scene from a movie. Goals help make great men. J. C. Penney once said, "Give me a stock clerk with a goal, and I will give you a man who will make history. Give me a man without a goal and I will give you a stock clerk.

Zig Ziglar says, "If you aim at nothing, you'll hit it every time." I love how Zig cuts right to the heart of the matter. If you don't have a target, if you don't have a goal in mind, then you'll never get where you want to go. Most people take a "Ready-Fire-Aim" approach to budgeting. They get the money, spend the money, and then wonder why they don't have any money. It's crazy!

Seth Godin says, "Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don't need to escape from." Business is way too hard to work at something just for money.

Without a mission statement, you may get to the top of the ladder and then realize it was leaning against the wrong building!

Someone who never has fun with money misses the point. Someone who never invests money will never have any. Someone who never gives is a monkey with his hand in a bottle.

long before the eons of time began, God came across your name! Then He formulated a perfect plan just for you that is unlike any other plan for any other person who has ever been born.

we must choose to walk in the plan He has ordained for our lives.

He is constantly searching to and fro for a people to whom He can prove Himself strong. He wants so desperately to pour out His anointing on people for the purpose of revival. But God knows that as soon as He does, Satan is going to come in with a "mop-up operation" that puts intense pressure on those operating in God's power. And those who can't stand against the devil's attacks will wish they had never been born!

Yogi Berra, the fabled Yankee baseball player and manager, was said to have pointed out, "If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up somewhere else." That is so true about brands; you need to know where they are to end up.

And me? I'm a mess. I'm nothing and have nothing: make something of me. You can do it; you've got what it takes— but God, don't put it off. (Ps. 40:17)

A brand vision should attempt to go beyond functional benefits to consider organizational values; a higher purpose; brand personality; and emotional, social, and self-expressive benefits.

In fact, the reality of life is such that you never do get to the top. The climb is the goal. The top of the mountain is only the direction, not the destination

The hardest math ever is Life, each one of us has a different question.

Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win. —Jonathan Kozol

You've got to think about the big things while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction. —Alvin Toffler