Quotes about Purpose
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
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