Quotes about Purpose
Our task is to relate our lives to God, and let Him work through us.
— Henry Blackaby
We must work earnestly in the best light He gives us.
— Abraham Lincoln
If you intend to go to work there is no better place than right where you are; if you do not intend to go to work, you can not get along anywhere.
— Abraham Lincoln
I wouldn't want to live if I did not have my work. In any case, it's good that I'm already old and personally don't have to count on a prolonged future.
— Albert Einstein
If God lets me live, I shall attain more than Mummy ever has done, I shall not remain insignificant, I shall work in the world and for mankind!
— Anne Frank
God uses the tension, complexity, and challenge of doing His kingdom work to transform us into champions.
— Christine Caine
I would not be happy unless I had some regular work to do every day and I imagine that I will always feel that way no matter how old I am.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
I never thought of achievement. I just did what came along for me to do - the thing that gave me the most pleasure.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
You must hold hard to life and do it. But life is a cheap thing beside a man's work. The only thing is that you need it. Hold it tight.
— Ernest Hemingway
It is a vain thought to flee from the work that God appoints us, for the sake of finding a greater blessing, instead of seeking it where alone it is to be found - in loving obedience.
— George Eliot
Our sense of duty must often wait for some work which shall take the place of dilettanteism [sic] and make us feel that the quality of our action is not a matter of indifference.
— George Eliot
A good man's work is effected by doing what he does, a woman's by being what she is.
— GK Chesterton