Quotes About Purpose

The job is not the work.

It's easy to get confused in our quest to build something that matters.

Your work is a tree. The roots live in the soil of dreams and desires. Not the dreams and desires of everyone, simply those you seek to serve.

Work that matters for people who care is the shortest, most direct route to making a difference.

Just as no one needs a drill bit, no one needs a real estate broker. What they need and want is how it makes them feel to get what a broker can get them.

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.

6. The point of being done is not to finish but to get other things done. 7. Once you're done you can throw it away. 8. Laugh at perfection. It's boring and keeps you from being done. 9. People without dirty hands are wrong. Doing something makes you right. 10. Failure counts as done. So do mistakes. 11. Destruction is a variant of done.

120. What's It for? We have a meeting at 4:00 p.m. Okay, what's it for? Well, we always have this meeting . . . So, the "what's-it-for" is: It's easier to maintain the status quo than to risk not having the meeting. What the meeting is for is making sure that the people who like having the meeting aren't upset.

The moment you are willing to sell your time for money is the moment you cease to be the artist you're capable of being.

The passion wasn't in making the money—it was in making a difference, solving a problem, creating a change that would help millions.

122. What's It for?

Now, instead of asking, "How can I get more people to listen to me, how can I get the word out, how can I find more followers, how can I convert more leads to sales, how can I find more clients, how can I pay my staff . . . ?" you can ask, "What change do I seek to make?

Steven Pressfield wrote, "What have you and I been put on this Earth to do? Is it not the creation of the 'inauthentic,' that is the purposefully crafted, in order to deliver to others the gift and simulacrum of authenticity? That's why they call it Art, and why, in some crazy way, it's realer than real and truer than true.

Everyone has a problem, a desire, and a narrative. Who will you seek to serve?

Stop settling for what's good enough and start creating art that matters

And too often, that purpose is simply a backward way of saying, "I'd like to sell more of what I've already decided to sell.

But is David doing it for the glory, or is he doing it for the tribe? I think you know the answer—great leaders focus on the tribe and only the tribe.

It's easy to hesitate when confronted with the feeling that maybe you're getting too much attention. Great leaders are able to reflect the light onto their teams, their tribes. Great leaders don't want the attention, but they use it. They use it to unite the tribe and to reinforce its sense of purpose.

Trample! It was to be trampled on by men that I was born into this world. It was to share men's pain that I carried my cross.

Tapi apa yang ditetapkan Tuhan tentunya lebih baik daripada yang bisa diberikan atau yang terpikir oleh manusia.

Aku tidak percaya Tuhan memberikan cobaan ini pada kami tanpa maksud tertentu. Aku yakin suatu hari nanti kami akan memahami dengan jelas, mengapa penganiayaan serta segala penderitaan ini ditimpakan pada kami - sebab segala yang dilakukan Tuhan kita adalah demi kebaikan kita juga.

It's better to do nothing than to waste your time.

God's heart is not to obliterate who we are and our culture, but to infiltrate every part of us and all areas of culture and align it with His love, which can transform and restore everything He created to the fullness of His original plan and purpose.

God has an intention, and a will and desire for everyone and everything He created. I love that truth.