Purpose
475 quotes: 68 by Keith Craft, 407 from other voices.
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- There is no fatigue so wearisome as that which comes from want of work.
- There is no greater joy nor greater reward than to make a fundamental difference in someone's life.
- There is no heavier burden than an unfulfilled potential.
- There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
- There is no substitute for thorough-going, ardent, and sincere earnestness.Charles DickensSourced
- There is no such thing as failure. Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction.
- There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions, as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one’s life.
- There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.
- There is nothing worth living for, unless it is worth dying for.
- There is only one valid definition of a business purpose: to create a customer.Peter F. DruckerSourced
- Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
- There's nothing wrong with having a plan. Plans are great. But missions are better. Missions survive when plans fail, and plans almost always fail.
- This is the core of the human spirit ... If we can find something to live for - if we can find some meaning to put at the center of our lives - even the worst kind of suffering becomes bearable.
- This is what the past is for! Every experience God gives us, every person He puts in our lives is the perfect preparation for the future that only He can see.
- This is your life. Do what you love, and do it often.
- Thought concentrated on a definite purpose becomes power.
- Three things in life – your health, your mission, and the people you love. That’s it.
- To be little with God is to be little for God.
- To be truly happy is a question of how we begin and not of how we end, of what we want and not of what we have. An aspiration is a joy for ever, a possession as solid as a landed estate, a fortune which we can never exhaust and which gives us year by year a revenue of pleasurable activity.
- To desire one thing today and another tomorrow means failure.
- To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.
- To forget one’s purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.
- To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.
- To want to be what one can be is purpose in life.
- Transferring your passion to your job is far easier than finding a job that happens to match your passion.
- Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather must recognize that it is he who is asked.
- Until thought is linked with purpose there is no intelligent accomplishment.
- We are apt to mistake our vocation by looking out of the way for occasions to exercise great and rare virtues, and by stepping over the ordinary ones that lie directly in the road before us.
- We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life.
- We are immortal till our work is done.
- We are not born for ourselves alone.
- We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world.
- We are not put into this world to sit still and know; we are put into it to act.
- We are visitors on this planet. We are here for one hundred years at the very most. During that period we must try to do something good, something useful, with our lives. If you contribute to other people’s happiness, you will find the true meaning of life.
- We don’t invent our missions, we detect them.
- We don't make movies to make money, we make money to make more movies.
- We have the choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place--or not to bother
- We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
- We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.
- We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives. If you don’t know where you’re aiming, you don’t have a goal.