Quotes about Purpose

The only way to do great work is to love what you do.

With every moment of your time, every decision about how you spend your energy and your money, you are making a statement about what really matters to you.

In sacrificing for something worthwhile, you deeply strengthen your commitment to it.

Finding Happiness in Your Career The only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. —Steve Jobs

If you work to understand what job you are being hired to do, both professionally and in your personal life, the payoff will be enormous.

if the decisions you make about where you invest your blood, sweat, and tears are not consistent with the person you aspire to be, you'll never become that person.

The meaning of life is to give life meaning.

Suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning.

This uniqueness and singleness which distinguishes each individual and gives a meaning to his existence has a bearing on creative work as much as it does on human love. When the impossibility of replacing a person is realized, it allows the responsibility which a man has for his existence and its continuance to appear in all its magnitude.

They died less from lack of food or medicine than from lack of hope, lack of something to live for.

There is nothing in this world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions as the knowledge that there is meaning in one's life.

The truth-that love is the ultimate and highest goal to which man can aspire. I understood how a man who has nothing left in this world still may know bliss, be it only for a brief moment, in the contemplation of his beloved.