Purpose Quotes - Page 78

A man’s got to do what a man’s got to do. A woman must do what he can’t.

You get answers and solutions to your problems when you begin to notice God

Giving up everything must mean giving over everything to kingdom purposes, surrendering everything to further the one central cause, loosening our grip on everything. For some of us, this may mean ridding ourselves of most of our possessions. But for all of us it should mean dedicating everything we retain to further the kingdom. (For true disciples, however, it cannot mean hoarding or using kingdom assets self-indulgently.)

to cheat your way into a job bigger than your mind can handle is to become a fear-corroded ape on borrowed motions and borrowed time, and to settle down into a job that requires less than your mind’s full capacity is to cut your motor and sentence yourself to another kind of motion: decay - that your work is the process of achieving your values, and to lose your ambition for values is to lose your ambition to live - that your body is a machine, but your mind is its driver, and you must drive as far as your mind will take you, with achievement as the goal of your road - that the man who has no purpose is a machine that coasts downhill at the mercy of any boulder to crash in the first chance ditch, that the man who stifles his mind is a stalled machine slowly going to rust, that the man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap, and the man who makes another man his goal is a hitchhiker no driver should ever pick up - that your work is the purpose of your life, and you must speed past any killer who assumes the right to stop you, that any value you might find outside your work, any other loyalty or love, can be only travelers you choose to share your journey and must be travelers going on their own power in the same direction.

If everyone was cognisant of their purpose on earth, we would only need weapons for hunting and nothing else.

True service is when you serve others without expecting anything in return

We must obey the will of God and not our flesh

Your purpose is the only thing you should make your obsession.

Society has got a lot of activities and attractions to steal your time and to make you think less about your diminishing life.

Instead of you pouring out your life and giving out your life and exchanging it for a porridge called salary, instead of selling out your life bit by bit until you are old and empty and until you become so old that they send you off to die in retirement, you should come to the realization that you could actually multiply and reproduce your life through the power of time conversion.

We all must walk in the Spirit

feeling shy is simply replacing courage with the feeling and fear of how others will perceive or what they will say about us after and act. Courage dares regardless

It is common to represent a title, but inspiring to represent a purpose.

Learn more about the character traits you have and those you want to develop

We have to consciously monitor and maximize our time effectively and efficiently

If you truly desire to be great, you must understand time management.

common sense is embedded in common things

Losing your job releases you to think effectively and make rational decisions

Learn from mistakes and set-backs (yours and other people’s), pick yourself up, make necessary changes and try again. I once came across a saying that went something like, “The wise learn from the mistakes made by fools!” So at some point we all have been fools, I suppose, since we all make mistakes.

We will never surrender but go forward to win the game.

So I resort back to such ideology: we all have a calling. We all have an ultimate purpose. On that is laid before us by destiny or one that is positioned in the crosshairs of our long-term goals.

You must be a blessing to other people while you are still on this earth

Living without regrets is maximizing time

For aspirants upon the spiritual path, each manifestation provides clues as to what needs to be released or cleared in order to continue to ascend.

Life is a series of events and sensations. Everything else is interpretation. Much is lost in translation and added in assumption / projection

P's of life; Passionate life, Persistent life.

Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism, as I understand it. It seems to me nonsense, in a period like our own, to think that one can avoid writing of such subjects. Everyone writes of them in one guise or another. It is simply a question of which side one takes and what approach one follows. And the more one is conscious of one's political bias, the more chance one has of acting politically without sacrificing one's aesthetic and intellectual integrity.

God is not to be blamed for your inability to fulfill your destiny

Your race is your diminishing life

The death of someone we know always reminds us that we are still alive - perhaps for some purpose which we ought to re-examine.

Solitude is the measure through which you could concentrate on using your time. It is through solitude that you can convert your time into something of value. Solitude is a way of overcoming distraction so that you can convert your time into something of worth.

Be always employed to something useful.

Hang on! God will be thy strength in any act of your pursuit.

The subjective experience of intense pain (“That’s all I can take”) corresponds exactly to one’s subjective experience in relation to truth (“That’s all I can take”).

Dependency on stuff, on people and on things is one of the greatest things that could kill.

One of the greatest discoveries you could actually discover in life is the treasure of solitude.

You have to be competitive to be relevant

Creation is bringing potential into being, bringing inspiration into action. Inspiration and action are nothing when they are apart. Inspiration feels like a great a wondrous thing, but if it is not manifested, it is as if it never existed. Likewise, action without inspiration has no purpose. It is only when they are together as one that they are truly something.

We all have some talents and abilities that differentiate us from others

God’s purpose for our lives is our calling

Fate’ and ‘coincidence’ are the mythological derivatives authored by those who refuse to see a ‘greater purpose’, because such a conclusion would naturally suggest a ‘Greater Being’.

Our goal as believers is to teach people to observe the principles of God

Work is God’s great investment in you

There is a difference between a calling and an assignment

A person with a victim complex is incapable of achieving his goal without someone’s assistance, advice and prompts

Knowledge will help you to solve any problem

What bothers you today or gives you concerns could be a signpost to your purpose in life.

The word Ilaah means something that deserves to be worshiped AND obeyed at the same time. It is not enough to worship Allah through rituals. We have to give His obedience precedence over our desires in every situation of our life.

People who do not waste their life truly understand the importance of time.

You need to know your destiny

The fact that you are still alive assures you that God has something for you to accomplish.

People with victim mentality do not have the habit of thinking on their own or thinking in general

God has individuals He has positioned for His purpose and to be used as His vessel at different time and season.

A person with a victim complex loses on constant complaints and objections

Leaders don't define wealth by material things they see. They define wealth by the visions they imagine and actions they take.

Dreams are difficult to measure if they remain wishes – crystallise them into measurable goals with specific targets and action plans. Goals/objectives are easier to measure when broken down into tasks with clear targets and deadlines.

Only men who have invested time to become the best in what they do are fit to sit and dine with great men.

I will passionately perform my work.

Change for the better... Let your change be purposeful and determined. Never repeat steps that always make you fail. Never change a step that brings you closer to excellence! You got to make a change!

Whether you try too hard to fit in or you try too hard to stand out, it is of equal consequence: you exhaust your significance.