Purpose
475 quotes: 68 by Keith Craft, 407 from other voices.
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- Motivation is a battle for the heart, not just an appeal to the mind. Passion is always an expression of the soul.
- No experience is wasted. Everything in life is happening to grow you up, to fill you up, to help you become more of who you were created to be.
- No great thing ever is accomplished without a sustained background of deep feeling.
- No man can live half a life when he has genuinely learned that it is only half a life. The other half, the higher half, must haunt him.
- No man is a success in business unless he loves his work.
- No man is born into this world whose work is not born with him; there is always work, and tools to work withal, for those who will; and blessed are the horny hands of toil.
- No matter where you are in life right now, know this: God put you on this earth to fulfill the promise He has predestined for your life.
- No wind favors he who has no destined port.
- Not what I Have, but what I Do is my Kingdom.
- Nothing is beneath you, if it is in the direction of your life: nothing is great or desirable, if it is off from that.
- Nothing is degrading which a high and graceful purpose ennobles, and offices the most menial cease to be menial the moment they are wrought in love.
- Nothing is likely to help a person overcome or endure troubles than the consciousness of having a task in life.
- Nothing stands in the way of a will which wants—an intelligence which knows.Robert CollierSourced
- Now, there is no preservative and antiseptic, nothing that keeps one's heart young, like love, like sympathy, like giving one's self with enthusiasm to some worthy thing or cause.
- Once you are clear about what you are doing and why, other people’s opinions will not matter.
- Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
- Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can.
- Our greatest fear should not be of failure, but of succeeding at something that doesn’t really matter.
- Our job in this lifetime is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it.
- Our purpose is to make it a better and more joyous place to live, for those who live with us and those who come after us.
- Our souls are not hungry for fame, comfort, wealth, or power. Our souls are hungry for meaning, for the sense that we have figured out how to live so that our lives matter.
- Our visit to this planet is short, so we should use our time meaningfully, which we can do by helping others wherever possible.
- Outstanding people have one thing in common: an absolute sense of mission.
- Passion alone can’t cut it. For passion to survive it needs structure. A why without how has little probability of success.
- Passion brings immediate joy. Values provide lasting meaning.
- Passion for your work is a little bit of discovery, followed by a lot of development, and then a lifetime of deepening.
- People don’t buy what you do; they buy why you do it.
- People don't enjoy salt. They enjoy what is salted. We are the salt of the earth. We do not exist for ourselves.
- People often complain about lack of time when lack of direction is the real problem.
- People work better when they know what the goal is and why. It is important that people look forward to coming to work in the morning and enjoy working.
- Potential unexpressed turns to pain.
- Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
- Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success.
- Pure grit is that element of character which enables a man to clutch his aim with an iron grip, and keep the needle of his purpose pointing to the star of his hope.
- Purpose directs energy, and purpose makes energy.
- Purpose is the key-stone in the temple of achievement. It binds and holds together in a complete whole that which would otherwise lie scattered and useless.
- Purposes, like eggs, unless they be hatched into action, will run into decay.
- Rather than focus on your critics, focus on the people who are impacted by your work.
- Reading without purpose is sauntering, not exercise.
- Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile.