Purpose
Quotes about mission, meaning, and calling
Our primary goal as a business is to make a profit—because we worked out a long time ago that you can help a lot more people with a profit than you can without one.
He who has a 'why' to live can bear almost any 'how.'
We achieve inner peace when our schedule aligns with our values.
If you don't prioritize your life someone else will.
You will never find time for anything. If you want the time, you must make it.
Every choice moves us closer to or farther away from something. Where are your choices taking your life? What do your behaviors demonstrate that you are saying yes or no to in life?
Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
A person with a clear purpose will make progress on even the roughest road. A person with no purpose will make no progress on even the smoothest road.
Where your talents and the needs of the world cross, lies your calling, vocation, purpose.
Your purpose is not the thing you do. It is the thing that happens in others when you do what you do.
You were designed for accomplishment, engineered for success, and endowed with the seeds of greatness.
I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake.
Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter.
You rarely have time for everything you want in this life, so you need to make choices. And hopefully your choices can come from a deep sense of who you are.
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.
Don't get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.
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"Children are not a distraction from more important work. They are the most important work."
"We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us."
"If you could only sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to the people you may never even dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person."