Calling Quotes - Page 20

Developing a true and solid character and finding unique traits that belong to only you is a foundational thing

If you are waiting to be compelled before you could invest your time productively, then, it means you are not the owner of your life but the system that is compelling you.

I felt I had a calling in my life to be in full-time ministry, and although I was very successful in the insurance business, earning a very large six-figure income, I gave notice to my company and sold out in January 2007 to go into the ministry full-time.

You need to understand, comprehend and believe, “There is a goal in my birth. I have a mission, and there is something that no one but I can do.

When you depart from this world, you must have the confidence that you have left your footprints in the sands of time, that you were among those who fulfilled their purpose

Thinking about work as a day job has made a big difference in the way I approach what I do. It also helped me not to confuse who I am with what I do.

Of course a miracle may happen, and you may be a great painter, but you must confess the chances are a million to one against it. It'll be an awful sell if at the end you have to acknowledge you've made a hash of it.""I've got to paint," he repeated."Supposing you're never anything more than third-rate, do you think it will have been worth while to give up everything? After all, in any other walk in life it doesn't matter if you're not very good; you can get along quite comfortably if you're just adequate; but it's different with an artist.""You blasted fool," he said."I don't see why, unless it's folly to say the obvious.""I tell you I've got to paint. I can't help myself. When a man falls into the water it doesn't matter how he swims, well or badly: he's got to get out or else he'll drown.

If a person does not fulfill his calling he will lose purpose in life

You win when you are able to convert that time into an investment, into seeds or fruits or products of cultivating your own land or products in other people’s lives.

If you can't give it all you've got, don't bother.

It's a gift of tranquility when your adult desires mesh with your childhood background. I don't quite know why mine didn't, although I think books, again, are partly to blame.

Your failures should motivate you to look at your life goals from a different angle

When you can actually monitor your passing life and be in control and be in charge of your time and making sure that you are actually converting every passing day into something, then you will never regret it.

Your failures contain key to your success and your destination

Humanity had to expand the limits of its consciousness to learn to ask the right questions.

The first thing you want to do to become great is to discover your area of calling.

Take this short time that you have on earth and convert it into greatness.

The roads of life are paved wide and skirt the mountains. And these very roads are choked with a steady stream of pathetically pedantic travelers who in reality have no intent of traveling. And if we are to discover the real travelers, much less join them, we will find them out on precarious paths that defy the roads and scale the mountains.

The amount of value produced at a certain period depends on the level of focus used to attain it

The tragedy of life is that it comes just once and before you know it, it is gone.

When you discover your gift the whole world will seek you

Credit of time in your life is limited

Greatness is only possible, thanks to the products you are able to produce per seconds, per minutes, per hour and per day.

You'd been in Sunday school long enough to know how the story goes: the voice of God comes down from the sky and asks you to go where you don't want to go, to do what you don't want to do. And you have to do it anyway.

Take charge of your life and multiply it. Be in control of your life and your time.

It is necessary to walk uprightly before God

Understanding who you are within creates invisible changes in a man’s character

Deepen your knowledge about your role in the society

Don’t live your life not knowing what to do with your time.

Passion is a realm of flow like a continuous flowing stream.

The world awaits your products. Humanity lives in eager expectation of your products. Begin to convert your time into products. Begin to gain the mastery over your talents and gifting.

One thing God has been showing me is that I'm not called to save the world, just to point those He places in my life towards the right way.

We must serve the Lord, our God with all our heart, with all our soul and in everything be devoted to Him

Always see the positive aspect of every situation you find yourself

Nothing's work unless you'd rather be doing something else.

In order to gain mastery over whatever you have been called to do, you must look for ways of improving how you do them.

So a complex, by distorting our perception of ourselves in our mind, builds obstacles that prevent achievement of our goals

Dividing the goal into pieces must be brought down to the smallest measurable element, a day, to know exactly what to do every day

Why do lazy, minimum effort employees always seem to find places where they feel "underappreciated"?

When” answers the question on time which is the currency of time

Solitude is a wonderful treasure the world is still yet to discover.

A man with a victim mentality feels like being a victim who is complaining and crying all the time

It is better to purposefully spend time with people talking about things that could improve them or talk about things that could improve me than to just waste time discussing irrelevant things.

To be able to convert time, you must be conscious of time.

To become the king of your territory you must not allow any of your time pass without converting it into building your skills in that area of life.

Reflect and meditate on yourself and discover ways to multiply yourself

Our attitude to others dictates God’s attitude to us

No one came to Christ by accident

If we serve God, we must not disdain or shun any job, God will not use a lazy man

Time is on our side to fulfill the will of God in our church and nation

Without accepting ourselves, we try to meet requirements of society and do everything to be accepted

And we need Christians who don’t make others feel guilty (and don’t feel guilty themselves) when one of us follows a different passion than another. I read and write a lot. That’s what I do well. But that doesn’t mean anyone should feel guilty for not reading and writing as much as I do. You have your own gifts and calling. We have to be okay with other Christians doing certain good things better and more often than we do.

We are all priests before God, there is no such distinction as 'secular or sacred.' In fact, the opposite of sacred is not secular; the opposite of sacred is profane. In short, no follower of Christ does secular work. We all have a sacred calling.

Lincoln told a family friend that his father taught him to work, but never learned him to love it.

If you will exchange your life for greatness, if you will use the currency of time to buy greatness; then greatness will deliver to you every other thing you need in life.

For a thinking man, the main thing is to understand who he is within

If I have found my journey to be a maddening tangle of wandering ‘rabbit-trails,’ a labyrinth of incessantly circular passages to nowhere and back, and a plethora of assorted ‘dead-ends’ fraudulently disguised as paths of great promise, it can only be because I have mindlessly exchanged God’s compass for mine. Therefore, it would appear that another exchange might be in order.

Everyone should be seen as a carrier of God’s nature

Always live in active consciousness

Greatness can only be bought through time.