Quotes about Purpose
Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Jesus modeled a purpose-driven life, and he taught others how to live it, too. That was the "work" that brought glory to God.
— Rick Warren
In the long run, doing work that's important leads to more happiness than doing work that's merely profitable.
— Seth Godin
The job is not the work.
— Seth Godin
Unless a decision has degenerated into work, it is not a decision; it is at best a good intention.
— Peter Drucker
If there is no Caller, there are no callings - only work.
— Os Guinness
God wants to use you to make a difference in His world. He wants to work through you. What matters is not the duration of your life, but the donation of it. Not how long you lived, but how you lived.
— Rick Warren
God works, and therefore we work; God is with- us, and therefore we are with God, and stand on His side.
— Charles Spurgeon
When it is the Lord's work in which we rejoice, we need not be afraid of being too glad.
— Charles Spurgeon
And this is the final meaning of work: the extension of human consciousness. The lesser meaning of work is the achieving of self-preservation.
— DH Lawrence
The earth was cursed for Adam's sake. Work is our blessing, not our doom. God has a work to do, and so should we.
— Ezra Taft Benson
Though the Life Force supplies us with its own purpose, it has no other brains to work with than those it has painfully and imperfectly evolved in our heads.
— George Bernard Shaw