Great Missions Quotes

#1. The Obama presidency has two great missions: fixing the economy, and preventing Iran from gaining nuclear weapons.

Benjamin Netanyahu

#2. A woman's beauty is one of her great missions.

Richard Le Gallienne

#3. There's nothing wrong with having a plan. Plans are great. But missions are better. Missions survive when plans fail, and plans almost always fail.

Seth Godin

#4. Plans are great, but missions are better.

Seth Godin

#5. All of history is moving toward one great goal, the white-hot worship of God and His Son among all the peoples of the earth. Missions is not that goal. It is the means. And for that reason it is the second greatest human activity in the world.

John Piper

#6. In my view, Arafat is the only Palestinian in the world that isn't willing to have an independent Palestinian state.

Silvan Shalom

#7. Great motivators are visible at the front and lead by their actions. Hiding in your office or mysteriously traveling all the time on unknown missions are sure ways to cause the focus of your team to disperse.

Martin Zwilling

#8. You say you experience great difficulty in the mission. Alas! Monsieur, there is no lot in life where there is nothing to be endured.

Vincent De Paul

#9. Good businesses generate missions to drive their profits. Great businesses generate profits to drive their missions.

Tony Hsieh

#10. I don't think we would be specifically remaking "Child's Play 2" and "Child's Play 3". I imagine we'd be dreaming up whole new stories.

David Kirschner

#11. The only way to clamp down on my energy is to erase my emotions, and so I fold them each away, one by one. My sorrow turns to anger, then to ice-cold fury. My soul curls in one itself in defense. I am gone. I am truly gone.
I am not sorry.

Marie Lu

#12. William Carey chides his countrymen for deciding it would be impossible for the Gospel to travel over great distances and to penetrate varied cultures when they are willing to face the same trials for the sake of commerce.

William Carey

#13. Go, send, or disobey.

John Piper

#14. Each and every prayer is a tiny piece of a great cosmic puzzle, which when fitted together will allow for the completion of the grand picture of the Almighty Lord's plan for humanity and the universe.

Jason Mandryk

#15. I feel most strongly about Jerusalem, because architects ultimately have to address that city.

Ben Nicholson

#16. You're NOT Norway!!! You'll never BE Norway!!! And BECAUSE of your not being Norway, you will be CRUELLY and UNFORGIVINGLY PUNISHED!!!

Denmark

#17. I know it's cheaper to fund an op-ed columnist than a team of reporters, but I think it confuses the mission of what these great journalistic brands are about,

Nate Silver

#18. God's command 'Go ye, and preach the gospel to every creature' was the categorical imperative. The question of personal safety was wholly irrelevant.

Elisabeth Elliot

#19. Somehow the notion has been loosed that nature is hostile to man or that her ways are offensive or slovenly, so that every step of progress is measured by how far we have altered these. Nothing short of a recovery of the ancient virtue of pietas can absolve man from this sin.

Richard M. Weaver

#20. Military missions cannot be a normal tool of politics, but instead must remain the great exception.

Guido Westerwelle

#21. Nothing motivates a great employee more than a mission that's so important that it supersedes everyone's personal ambition.

Ben Horowitz

#22. One thing that was amazing about World War II was that everybody signed up for the duration plus six months. Fliers got to leave combat after 25 missions, or 35 missions, but other than that, you were in it. You were part of the great effort, until, oh boy, six months after it was over.

Tom Hanks

#23. When a nation is filled with strife, then do patriots flourish.

Lao-Tzu

#24. He'd never sat vigil for someone before - didn't know what he was supposed to do other than wait. And lust for the man sitting by his side. As if Death weren't enough to fight off, the world had to go and throw Desire into the fray as well.

Rhys Ford

#25. It was just before dawn during the Great Big Siege of Bologna, when tongueless dead men peopled the night hours like living ghosts and Hungry Joe was half out of his mind with anxiety because he had finished his missions

Joseph Heller