Quotes about Purpose
What is the one thing I want my audience to know? • What do I want them to do about it?
— Andy Stanley
As Paul Naeger reminds us in his excellent article Red Flag Decision Making, Emotions serve a purpose, informing us what to do. If our brain comes across something and categorizes it as a "red flag," we will be notified through thoughts and feelings created by emotion. This "red flag" alerts us to pay attention. Our emotions act as a cueing system notifying us to pay attention and take action.
— Andy Stanley
Our approach to communicating should be shaped by our goal in communicating.
— Andy Stanley
Vision is a clear mental picture of what could be, fueled by the conviction that it should be.
— Andy Stanley
In addition to a job description designed around your current employment, develop what you would consider to be the ultimate job description. This is for your eyes only. The goal of this exercise is to help you identify the niche in which you would feel most productive and consequently most successful. Dream a little.
— Andy Stanley
If God has birthed a vision in you, he is in the process of developing a similar vision in the hearts of others around you.
— Andy Stanley
The church is not here to win. Just the opposite. By every human measure, our Savior lost. On purpose. With a purpose.
— Andy Stanley
The tendency in business, or in church work for that matter, is to mistake activity for progress. We think that just because people are busy and doing a lot of stuff that we are being successful. The fact of the matter is, if all that activity isn't taking you where you want to go, then it's just wasted time.
— Andy Stanley
VISIONEERING = INSPIRATION + CONVICTION + ACTION + DETERMINATION + COMPLETION
— Andy Stanley
Everybody ends up somewhere in life. A few people end up somewhere on purpose.
— Andy Stanley
Direction, not intention determines your destination.
— Andy Stanley
We don't drift in good directions. We discipline and prioritize ourselves there.
— Andy Stanley