Quotes About Purpose

God, help me to live a life for You. I long to be a whole person – consistent and united. Reach into my spirit and make me whole

Quizá mi vida no es más que una serie de momentos de vestirse y desvestirse de nuevo para la tarea en cuestión.

Now it is quite true to say that curiosity, exactly like its analogue, lust, never ends and is never satisfied; but man was made for something more than this. He was made to rise, above curiosity and lust, to love, and through love to the attainment of truth.

Life's too short is repeated often enough to be a cliche, but this time it's true. You don't have enough time to be both unhappy and mediocre. It's not just pointless, it's painful. Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you ought to set up a life you don't need to escape from.

You cannot create a piece of art merely for money. Doing it as part of commerce so denudes art of wonder that it ceases to be art.

What is school for? If you're not asking that, you're wasting time and money.

The best way to be missed when you're gone, Is to stand for something when you're here

You have everything you need to build something far bigger than yourself.

Writers write. Runners run. Establish your identity by doing your work.

Your job isn't to do your job. Your job is to decide what to do next.

One of the things that school is for is to teach our children to understand and relish the idea of intellectualism, to develop into something more than a purpose-driven tool for the industrial state.

Passion is caring enough about your art that you will do almost anything to give it away, to make it a gift, to change people.

Life's too short to fight the forces of change. Life's too short to hate what you do all day. Life's way too short to make mediocre stuff.

When you are leading a tribe, a tribe that you belong to, the benefits increase, the work gets easier, and the results are more obvious. That's the best reason to overcome the fear.

So sure, start with a slogan. But don't bother wasting any time on it if you're merely going for catchy. Aim for true instead.

Everything gets easier when you walk away from the hubris of everyone. Your work is not for everyone. It's only for those who signed up for the journey.

The job is not your work; what you do with your heart and soul is the work.

The only purpose of starting is to finish, and while the projects we do are never really finished, they must ship. Shipping means hitting the publish button on your blog, showing a presentation to the sales team, answering the phone, selling the muffins, sending out your references. Shipping is the collision between your work and the outside world.

Your work is too important to be left to how you feel today.

If your agenda is set by someone else and it doesn't lead you where you want to go, why is it your agenda?

On top of this, if you do great work you gain the reward of knowing you're doing great work. Your day snaps into alignment with your dreams, and you no longer have to pretend you're mediocre. You're free to contribute.

Instead of wondering when you're next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life that you don't need to escape from.

People don't want what you make They want what it will do for them.

The only purpose of starting is to finish, and while the projects we do are never really finished, they must ship.