Defined Purpose Quotes

#1. He was aware of the irony that he who prized his freedom and willingness to seek the truth had been happiest when he had a defined purpose, a sense of duty and obligation, and a specific destination in mind.

John Lanchester

#2. Studies of older Americans find that one of the best predictors of happiness is whether a person considers his or her life to have a purpose. Without a clearly defined purpose, seven in ten individuals feel unsettled about their lives; with a purpose, almost seven in ten feel satisfied!

Mark Lepper

#3. Life without a defined purpose is similar to a boat without a crew in the middle of the ocean.

Debasish Mridha

#4. To be a success, dream with open eyes, have faith in your defined purpose, and act with deep love.

Debasish Mridha

#5. Defined purpose oriented actions, not actions, are the attributes of success.

Debasish Mridha

#6. The countenance may be rightly defined as the title page which heralds the contents of the human volume, but like other title pages, it sometimes puzzles, often misleads, and often says nothing to the purpose.

William Matthews

#7. Burnout can be defined as a loss of enthusiasm, energy, idealism, perspective, and purpose; it has been described as trying to run a marathon at full speed. It's often the mothers who care the most who are the most prone to burnout.

Kathleen A. Kendall-Tackett

#8. You should be able to criticize and evaluate yourself before others do it. Check for congruity between your defined mission, vision, values and your practiced attitude, behaviour and habits.

Archibald Marwizi

#9. A business is not defined by its name, statutes, or articles of incorporation. It is defined by the business mission. Only a clear definition of the mission and purpose of the organization makes possible clear and realistic business objectives.

Peter Drucker

#10. The best time management tool is a clearly defined and definite purpose for your life.

Tom Cunningham

#11. For my own purpose, I defined the art of fiction as experience illuminated.

Ellen Glasgow

#12. Maybe it's something which can't be defined," Enso Roshi says. "Maybe it's a question, to be lived.

T. Scott McLeod

#13. All around you, production must be taking place to bring you closer to realizing your defined success. Adopt a personal responsibility attitude to enable the realization of your dreams.

Archibald Marwizi

#14. Happiness can be defined as the function of the effort we put forth toward the realization of life's goals. When we understand that our purpose in this world is to strive toward purposeful accomplishment, precisely then will we experience happiness.

H.W. Charles

#15. when we conceive an idea, we don't just look anymore but we see. People without a well defined vision look; men with a focused purpose look and they see.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#16. [The pioneers] woke up each morning with clearly defined purposes and goals that everyone understood: to serve God.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

#17. Transforming leadership, [is defined as] leadership that builds on man's need for meaning, leadership that creates institutional purpose ... he is the value-shaper, the exemplar, the maker of meanings ... he is the true artist, the true pathfinder.

Tom Peters

#18. Having defined your purpose and mission, you need to implement the program directly concerned with your goals every day

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#19. It was a loss of identity. I was a wizard. It was more than just a job, more than just a title. Wizardry was at the core of my being. It was my relationship with my magic, the way I used it, the things it let me do that defined me, shaped me, gave me purpose. I

Jim Butcher

#20. In life, purpose is defined by the thing that makes you angry. Martin Luther was angry; Mandela was angry; Mahatma Gandhi was angry; Mother Teresa was angry. If you are not angry, you do not have a ministry yet.

Myles Munroe

#21. Christ taught that the kingdom of God was a community where each member served the others. He defined His ultimate purpose using that term. But in most churches, a few people carry the load.

J. Oswald Sanders

#22. Who are you' is a question of both substance and position. In other words, what is the authority of your voice, service, product or performance in relation to the needs of those you intend to serve? Secondly, have you defined and demystified yourself enough to be accepted as the solution of choice?

Archibald Marwizi

#23. Personalising success means defining it in line with your defined mission and beliefs. This will help ignite a passion for the dream as well as develop underlying values and attitudes.

Archibald Marwizi

#24. An expectation is defined as "an eager anticipation for something to happen." A goal is defined as "a purpose or objective." When we are clinging to expectations, we are waiting for something to happen and giving our power away.

Christine Hassler

#25. If an artist is driven primarily by social responsibility, I think the art probably suffers because, again, just as leadership has a rather defined end point or purpose, social responsibility would seem to have a very clear moral context.

Billy Collins

#26. The world is always throwing challenges and questions - which ones does your mission and purpose respond to or seek to solve? Do you know your mission and have you clearly defined the life-issues you intend to address?

Archibald Marwizi

#27. The powers of congress must be defined, but their means must be adequate to the purposes of their constitution. It is possible there may be abuses and misapplications; still, it is better to hazard something than to hazard at all.

Oliver Ellsworth

#28. Potency is defined as a hidden opportunity, ability, strength, being able to display itself in certain conditions

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#29. The good or healthy society would then be defined as one that permitted people's highest purposes to emerge by satisfying all their basic needs.

Abraham Maslow

#30. Make sure your reading, studying or research are always adding value to the defined vision, mission, beliefs and values that form your unique personal brand.

Archibald Marwizi

#31. A person becomes a real individual when he has set and accurately defined his goal

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#32. Old school mission statements defined what an organization did. Contemporary mission statements define why an organization does what it does.

Del Suggs

#33. I have defined love as the will to extend oneself for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth. Genuine love is volitional rather than emotional. The person who truly loves does so because of a decision to love.

M. Scott Peck

#34. It becomes easy," Finbar said. "It's in the training; the ability to see your enemy as something other than a real man. He is a lesser breed, defined by his beliefs - you learn to do with him what you will, and bend him to your purpose.

Juliet Marillier

#35. My mother and father instilled in me a sense of purpose not defined by today's street obsession with bling, cars or cribs.

Brian J. White

#36. Your identity should not be fully defined by what you do, by being a manager, a wife, a mother of children or a computer programmer

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