Quotes about Purpose

Most employees only want to know how much they get paid and how much time off they get - they probably don't have the mission in their souls.

The longer I live, the more I am enabled to realize that I have but one life to live on Earth, and that this one life is but a brief life, for sowing, in comparison with eternity, for reaping.

Working for love is a curse. Working from love is a ministry.

There are only two reasons to farm: because you have to, and because you love to. The ones who choose to farm choose for love.

Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts.

There's a Grand Designer behind everything. Your life is not a result of random chance, fate, or luck. There is a master plan. History is His story. God is pulling the strings.

The habit of planting in the mind a definite aim, objective, or purpose, and visualizing that objective until ways and means for its realization have been created.

The object of concentrating upon a definite aim is to train the mind until it forms the habit of focusing upon that aim.

There is no hope of success for the person who does not have a central purpose, or definite goal at which to aim.

Being a philosopher as well as a preacher, Dr. Gunsaulus recognized, as do all who succeed in life, that DEFINITENESS OF PURPOSE is the starting point from which one must begin. He recognized, too, that definiteness of purpose takes on animation, life, and power when backed by a BURNING DESIRE to translate that purpose into its material equivalent.

Coordination of knowledge and effort, in a spirit of harmony, between two or more people, for the attainment of a definite purpose.

The battle is all over except the shouting when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.