Best work & purpose Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Productive work is the central purpose of a rational man's life, the central value that integrates and determines the hierarchy of all his other values. Reason is the source, the precondition of his productive work, pride is the result.”

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Book:The Virtue of Selfishness

Source: The Virtue of Selfishness

“You seem to have no real purpose in life and won't realize at the age of twenty-two that for a man life means work, and hard work if you mean to succeed.”

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Author:Lady Randolph Churchill

“Does not the latent feeling that much of their striving is to no purpose tend to infuse large quantities of sham into men's work?”

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Book:William Allingham: a diary

Source: William Allingham: a diary

“Prayer is essentially a partnership of the redeemed child of God working hand in hand with God toward the realization of His redemptive purposes on earth.”

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Author:Jack W. Hayford

“Much of the work of every life is done in the dark.”

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Book:Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910

Source: Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910

“The job is not your work; what you do with your heart and soul is the work.”

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Book:Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?

Source: Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?

“How defeated and restless the child that is not doing something in which it sees a purpose, a meaning! It is by its self-directed activity that the child, as years pass, finds its work, the thing it wants to do and for which it finally is willing to deny itself pleasure, ease, even sleep and comfort.”

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Author:Ida Tarbell

“What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.”

“You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.”

Source: Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson

“A customer is the most important visitor on our premises. He is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him. He is not an interruption in our work. He is the purpose of it. He is not an outsider in our business. He is part of it. We are not doing him a favor by serving him. He is doing us a favor by giving us an opportunity to do so.”

“One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away.”

“When you're following your energy and doing what you want all the time, the distinction between work and play dissolves.”

Source: Living in the Light: A Guide to Personal and Planetary Transformation

“Hard work is painful when life is devoid of purpose. But when you live for something greater than yourself and the gratification of your own ego, then hard work becomes a labor of love.”

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Author:Steve Pavlina

“If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.”

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Book:Alan Bennett Plays 2: Kafka's Dick; Insurance Man; Old Country; Englishman Abroad; Question of Attribution

Source: Alan Bennett Plays 2: Kafka's Dick; Insurance Man; Old Country; Englishman Abroad; Question of Attribution

“It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive.”

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Author:Federico Fellini

“All successful people, men and women, are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.”

“The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate 'apparently ordinary' people to unusual effort. The tough problem is not in identifying winners: it is in making winners out of ordinary people.”

“I'm doing what I think I was put on this earth to do. And I'm really grateful to have something that I'm passionate about and that I think is profoundly important.”

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Author:Marian Wright Edelman

“Continuity of purpose is one of the most essential ingredients of happiness in the long run, and for most men that comes chiefly through their work.”

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Book:The Conquest of Happiness

Source: The Conquest of Happiness

“The main purpose of my work is to provoke people into using their imagination. Most people spend their lives in dreary, grey-beige conformity, mortally afraid of using colours. By experimenting with lighting, colours, textiles and furniture and utilizing the latest technologies, I try to show new ways to encourage people to use their phantasy and make their surroundings more exciting.”

“The main purpose of my work is to provoke people into using their imagination and make their surroundings more exciting.”

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Author:Verner Panton

“When a child makes a mistake or fails to accomplish a certain goal, we must avoid any word or action which indicates that we consider him a failure. 'Too bad that didn't work.' 'I'm sorry it didn't work out for you.' We need to separate the deed from the doer.”

“Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. Thoughts are things! And powerful things at that, when mixed with definiteness of purpose, and burning desire, can be translated into riches. Use auto-suggestion, have faith, imagination and overcome fear and time is your opposite player as in checkerboard.”

“Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it”

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Author:Gautama Buddha

“As the British Constitution is the most subtle organism which has proceeded from progressive history, so the American Constitution is the most wonderful work ever struck off at a given time by the brain and purpose of man.”

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Author:William E. Gladstone

“The inlet of a man's mind is what he learns; the outlet is what he accomplishes. If his mind is not fed by a continued supply of new ideas which he puts to work with purpose, and if there is no outlet in action, his mind becomes stagnant. Such a mind is a danger to the individual who owns it and is useless to the community.”

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Author:Jeremiah Jenks

“Your work is to go forth into this physical environment looking for things that are a vibrational match to joy, connecting to Source Energy, and then following with the inspired action.”

“Meanwhile, spiritual submissiveness brings about the wiser use of our time, talents, and gifts as compared with our laboring diligently but conditionally to establish our own righteousness instead of the Lord's (D&C 1:16). After all, Lucifer was willing to work very hard, but conditionally in his own way and for his own purposes.”

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Author:Neal A. Maxwell

“My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.”

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Book:The lonely life: an autobiography

Source: The lonely life: an autobiography

“Sometimes it may seem to us that there is no purpose in our lives, that going day after day for years to this office or that school or factory is nothing else but waste and weariness. But it may be that God has sent us there because but for us, Christ would not be there. If our being there means that Christ is there, that alone makes it worthwhile.”

Source: A Rocking-Horse Catholic: A Caryll Houselander Reader

“The purpose of the whole [the Comedy] and of this portion [the Paradiso] is to remove those who are living in this life from the state of wretchedness, and to lead them to the state of blessedness.”

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Author:Dante Alighieri

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