Purpose
475 quotes: 68 by Keith Craft, 407 from other voices.
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- Even when it is not fully attained, we become better by striving for a higher goal.
- Every human being that works has to know that what they do matters to another human being.
- Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.
- Every man has this call of the power to do somewhat unique, and no man has any other call.
- Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.
- Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life… Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated. Thus, everyone’s task is as unique as is his specific opportunity to implement it.
- Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
- Father, make of me a crisis man. Bring those I contact to decision.
- Figure out what you really want. Learn what it takes to make it happen and commit to doing it. Don’t chase after too many other things.
- Find a purpose in life so big it will challenge every capacity to be at your best.
- Find out who you are and do it on purpose.
- Find your sense of importance in something outside of the self.
- Five minutes after you die you'll know how you should have lived.
- Follow your passion. It will lead you to your purpose.
- Followers are willing followers when they know that their leader is a person with a definite chief aim who has the courage to back up that purpose with action.
- For there is a perennial nobleness, and even sacredness, in Work.
- Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, harness your power to your passion. Honor your calling. Everybody has one. Trust your heart, and success will come to you.
- Get work. Be sure it is better than what you work to get.
- Give a man the sort of work that harmonizes with his nature and the best there is in him will exert itself.
- Go after what it is that creates meaning in your life and then trust yourself to handle the stress that follows.
- Goals are a means to an end, not the ultimate purpose of our lives. A tool to concentrate our focus and move us in a direction.
- God doesn’t call the qualified; God qualifies the called.
- God doesn't call us to be successful; He calls us to be significant.
- God hid your future in a place where He knew you couldn’t miss it. He hid it within you.
- Great tenacity of purpose is the only thing that will carry you over the hard places which appear in every career to ultimate triumph.
- Greatness consists not in the holding of some future office, but really consists in doing great deeds with little means and the accomplishment of vast purposes from the private ranks of life.
- Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained.
- Happiness is not a goal to pursue. It’s a byproduct of leading a life of meaning and engagement.
- Happiness requires struggle. Without struggle, the world would lack meaning and our joys would feel empty. Be grateful for your struggles, because within them is the constant opportunity for purpose.
- Happiness will never come if it’s a goal in itself; happiness is a by-product of a commitment to worthy causes.
- Hard work, a definite aim, and faithfulness, will shorten the way.
- Have a purpose in life, and having it, throw into your work such strength of mind and muscle as God has given you.
- Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become.
- He that labours in any great or laudable undertaking, has his fatigues first supported by hope, and afterwards rewarded by joy.
- He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
- He will not ask, “How many good things have you done in your life?” but rather, “How much love did you put into what you did?”
- Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished. If you’re alive, it isn’t.
- How very odd, to believe God gave you life, and yet not think that life asks more of you than watching TV.
- I came to realize that life lived to help others is the only one that matters and that it is my duty...This is my highest and best use as a human.
- I do not want to die... until I have faithfully made the most of my talent and cultivated the seed that was placed in me until the last small twig has grown.