Top 100 Quotes About Mission
#1. Part of my mission is simply that: to bring the world of the arts, particularly classical music, closer to people so they don't feel that it is something remote that they have to specially prepare themselves for, or dress up for.
Michael Tilson Thomas
#2. The imagination is an organ of understanding. And the imagination needs all the faculties at hand, all the sensibility, all the conscious and unconscious intelligence it can galvanize to fulfill its luminous mission.
Edward Hirsch
#3. Can you have more than one major MISSION pervading your life? NO. That would be like coming to a fork in the road and trying to go both ways by straddling it.
Charles Garfield
#4. Our message and methodology have changed, do change, and must change if we are faithful to the ongoing and unchanging mission of Jesus Christ.
Brian D. McLaren
#5. What you believe really does affect how you live, how you look at God, how you look at the world around you, how you look at yourself, and how you feel about reality. What you believe is vital for your whole worldview, your self-identity, and your understanding of your mission.
James T. Bradford
#6. I walk like I'm on a mission 'cause that's the way I groove. I got more and more to do and less and less to prove.
Ani DiFranco
#7. Our mission goes beyond commerce, it goes beyond technology. Our intent is to preserve music's importance in our lives, music is the language of love, of laughter, of heartbreak, of mystery. It's the world's true, true, without question, universal language.
Alicia Keys
#8. Woman is the highest, holiest, most precious gift to man. Her mission and throne is the family, and if anything is withheld that would make her more efficient, useful, or happy in that sphere, she is wronged, and has not her rights.
John Todd
#9. Eyes glazed over as the great rice-wine parties in the highlands were recalled, parties that are no longer held since the arrival of the mission. Bario has become a good, clean, upstanding, sober, hard-working Christian community. What a loss for these fun-loving and generous people.
Eric Hansen
#10. Your mission isn't your guide. You have to find your own way.
Yellow Tanabe
#11. Our troops are committed to bringing security to Iraq while its government matures. American forces will continue to accomplish their mission with caution, precision and honor with the thanks of a grateful nation.
Mike Fitzpatrick
#12. serving food is a job, but improving morale is a mission.
Chip Heath
#13. America's mission is to join the most ancient civilizations with the most modern. John Augustus Roeblin
H.W. Brands
#14. Few Christians go into media or the arts today, or see it as a primary mission field or battlefield. But it is.
Peter Kreeft
#15. A third advantage of mission oriented companies, is that people outside the company are more willing to help you.
Sam Altman
#16. I shouldn't think of my situation as being held prisoner; it's more like I'm on a mission behind enemy lines.
I'm a freaking spy.
Pittacus Lore
#17. Choose to be happy and make inner peace your mission is the best way to live life. Now organize your life to attain these.
Debasish Mridha
#19. You haven't begun to live a focused and productive life until you have said no to great opportunities that just do not fit your mission. There are many good things in this world that will go undone or that will have to be done by someone else.
Tim Challies
#20. The one who cannot see your vision will be blinded by your mission.
Habeeb Akande
#21. Your mission: feel good about who you are, what you do, how you think, and how you look
without needing anybody's approval!
Karen Salmansohn
#22. I am a doctor - it's a profession that may be considered a special mission, a devotion. It calls for involvement, respect and willingness to help all other people.
Ewa Kopacz
#23. And that's the mission of The Innocence Project in New York, is to exonerate people who have been wrongfully convicted, and also work from a policy angle with Congress and state legislatures to prevent future wrongful convictions.
John Grisham
#24. I developed a pathological pride and the insane conviction that it was my mission to teach people without knowing what I was teaching them.
Leo Tolstoy
#25. I am proud to represent these men and women who empower people in developing nations and promote the Peace Corps mission of peace and friendship. These volunteers are making major strides to improve the lives of people and communities around the world.
Kenny Marchant
#26. A world filled with temptations needs priests who are totally dedicated to their mission. Accordingly, they are asked in a very special way to open themselves fully to serving others as Christ did by embracing the gift of celibacy.
Pope Benedict XVI
#27. To be elect in Christ Jesus, and there is no other election, means to be incorporated into his mission to the world, to be the bearer of God saving purpose for his whole world, to be the sign and the agent and the firstfruit of his blessed kingdom which is for all.
Lesslie Newbigin
#28. It is a sad mission to cut through and destroy with the scissors of analysis the delicate and iridescent veils with which our proud mediocrity clothes itself.
Cesare Lombroso
#29. I believed that English-speaking people had a divine mission to civilize the world by making it western, democratic and Christian.
Luke Ford
#30. My mission as a writer is to give my readers hope to carry with them, and to promote a belief that they can do anything they set their minds to.
Wendelin Van Draanen
#31. As long as I am alive there will be no rest for the enemies of Islam. I will continue my mission against them.
Osama Bin Laden
#32. There's nothing more dangerous in this existence than a moron on a mission.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#33. At one point, I worked up a list of five requirements for a superhero: superpowers, a costume, a code name, a mission, and a milieu. If the character had three out of the five, they were a superhero. But that's just my definition.
Kurt Busiek
#34. He helped them to know and love God (worship), taught them to love each other (fellowship), gave them the Word so they could grow to maturity (discipleship), showed them how to serve (ministry), and sent them out to tell others (mission).
Rick Warren
#35. The Agency was the one subject in his life that could never be exhausted. Central Intelligence. Beryl saw it as the best organized church in the Christian world, a mission to collect and store everything that everyone has ever said and then reduce it to a microdot and call it God.
Don DeLillo
#37. President Bush announced a billion dollar mission to the moon and Mars. He came up with a snappy new slogan - to drill where no man has drilled before.
Craig Kilborn
#38. My mission in life is to assist women in social and political empowerment through business and education.
Joyce Banda
#39. Every area of your life is subject to enemy attack, so you must fight on your knees before you can stand on your mission field.
Elizabeth Alves
#40. We always knew how to honor fallen soldiers. They were killed for our sake, they went out on our mission. But how are we to mourn a random man killed in a terrorist attack while sitting in a cafe? How do you mourn a housewife who got on a bus and never returned?
A. B. Yehoshua
#41. By the way," Aiden said casting me a long look that had me totally forgetting the seriousness of our mission. "You look damn good in a Sentinel uniform."
A hot flush that had nothing to do with embarrassment spread over me. "So do you."
"I know.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#42. 'Mission: Impossible' is basically entertainment, and for what it is, it's fine. I don't think most actors become actors to do that type of film.
Ving Rhames
#43. There are flaws in the way politics is reported in this country today and we should do something about it, .. Radio and television coverage of politics doesn't see its role as a mission to explain, but to destroy, in a pernicious culture in which journalists pit themselves against politicians.
Tim Allen
#44. This world is simply not ready for me. But I didn't came here to show myself to the world. I came here with a mission and I will leave it before anyone knows who I am.
Robin Sacredfire
#45. The only way the corporate Body of Christ will fulfill the mission Christ has given it is for individual Christians to have a vision for fulfilling that mission personally.
David Jeremiah
#46. My mission is to support our service members. They're volunteers, and if they're going to go to a hostile place like Afghanistan, I think we owe it to them to back them up and try to help them get through it.
Gary Sinise
#47. And since Italy was involved in the space station as well as signed an agreement with NASA. And when the possibility to enter the 1996 Mission Specialist class.
Umberto Guidoni
#48. Our mission is to organize the world's information. Clearly, the more information we have when we do a search, the better it's going to work.
Larry Page
#49. Francis Galton, whose mission it seems to be to ride other men's hobbies to death, has invented the felicitous expression 'structureless germs'.
James Clerk Maxwell
#50. Public service is a tautology. It defines itself. It means to serve the public. Not yourself. It doesn't mean that you become enriched or have your name emblazoned on headlines. There are two words to describe the mission of politics: do it. Don't talk about it. Do it.
L. Douglas Wilder
#51. January took a breath, realizing it had been a cause from her holding it in, trying to work through the puzzle she faced. If he's a Ghost, why was she sent on a mission to kill him?
Samantha LaFantasie
#52. British General Andrew Skeen, who faced a similar military mission in 1939, wrote, "When planning a military expedition into Pashtun tribal areas, the first thing you must plan is your retreat. All expeditions into this area sooner or later end in retreat under fire.
Eric Blehm
#53. If I were not a writer, I would spend more time doing the things that I am already doing, which include doing research in physics, teaching, and running a nonprofit organization with a mission to empower women in Cambodia.
Alan Lightman
#54. We could ask about anything; the only constraint was that the questionnaire should include at least one mention of fish, to make it pertinent to the mission of the department. This went on for many months, and we treated ourselves to an orgy of data collection.
Daniel Kahneman
#55. A spirit with a vision is a dream with a mission.
Neil Peart
#56. I'm really clear about what my life mission is now. There's no more depression or lethargy, and I feel like I've returned to the athlete I once was. I'm integrating all the parts of me - jock, musician, writer, poet, philosopher - and becoming stronger as a result.
Alanis Morissette
#57. I see entrepreneurship, like many other activities, as a type of mission. A mission by which we can provide better life chances and quality for both our current and future generations.
Miguel Reynolds Brandao
#58. Living is giving. We live life best as we give our strengths, gifts, and competencies in the service of God's mission. We are called to serve, not survive. Our giving makes a difference in our families, our work, our community, our world, and our church.
Kennon Callahan
#60. I've heard one of my SEAL mentors say that there are rules about bitching. He said everyone has the right to bitch about a mission or job for five minutes. After those five minutes, you shut the fuck up and get to work.
Mark Owen
#61. Our mission is, in truth, historic and world changing - to build, over the next fifty years and beyond, a global low carbon economy. And it is not overdramatic to say that the character and course of the coming century will be set by how we measure up to this challenge
Gordon Brown
#62. Heaven's rule, God's rule, is thus to be put into practice in the world, resulting in salvation in both the present and the future, a salvation that is both for humans and, through saved humans, for the wider world. This is the solid basis for the mission of the church.
N. T. Wright
#63. The word that comes to mind is 'beefcake', Zane drawled, looking Ty over, appreciating the view
"Mission accomplished then!" Ty said happily as he turned around to face Zane again. He frowned suddenly. "Is beefcake one word or two?"
Zane laughed. "Who cares when you've got a great ass?
Abigail Roux
#64. It is the mission of all art to express the highest and most beautiful ideals of man.
Isadora Duncan
#65. If you don't set your goals based upon your Mission Statement, you may be climbing the ladder of success only to realize, when you get to the top, you're on the WRONG building.
Stephen Covey
#66. As we make disciples and mobilize God's people for mission, the methodology we use must be congruent with the way of Jesus. We need to learn how to do family on mission.
Mike Breen
#67. I am interested in people living in the margins of society, and I do have a mission to tell the stories of women of colour in particular. I feel we've been present throughout history, but our voices have been neglected.
Lynn Nottage
#68. If we minimize our gifts, hush our voice, and stay small in a misguided attempt to fit a weak and culturally conditioned standard of femininity, we cannot give our brothers the partner they require in God's mission for the world.
Sarah Bessey
#69. To be sure, American higher education is a diverse ecosystem, comprising institutions of all sizes, price tags, and mission statements.
Gordon Gee
#70. waging war against inane language that circulates almost automatically is a writer's eternal mission, and the day will never come when this battles are unnecessary.
Minae Mizumura
#71. My dad's mission for me has always been to be a man they would write about, somebody that can be respected in the world.
Kenna
#72. As a leader you can get sidetracked but you have to complete your mission
Mike Krzyzewski
#73. Maybe you could have picked something a little easier for our first official mission together?" Layla said in a teasing whisper...
Paige Tyler
#75. the bleakness of life takes many forms, and that none of those forms should be permitted to obscure the central mission, which is to record it honestly, powerfully, and continuously.
Ben Greenman
#76. George III was incapable of passing on a sense of mission to his son might a given some purpose to the crown prince's existence
Henrik Bering
#77. Your Mission starts where you are,
Not where you think you should be.
Sometimes we're tempted to think that our current position/job/situation is a barrier to our mission, but, in fact, it is where it starts.
John Ortberg
#78. We can now approach the mission Jesus has given us with great joy and anticipation, because we know now, like Jesus in His humanity, that the power is not within us, but within the resources that He has made available to us!
Anonymous
#79. We must never forget that many around the globe are denied the basic rights we enjoy as Americans. If we are to continue enjoying these privileges and freedoms we must accept our mission of expanding democracy around the globe.
James Inhofe
#80. Rendezvous day is the third day of our mission, and that's a big day for us.
Duane G. Carey
#81. It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny.
Eric Hoffer
#82. Only later during her prayers had it come to her how cunning Satan could be. Her love for Marcus could become a tool against her, for when her heart and mind were on Marcus, Julia lay forgotten.
Nothing must distract her from her mission here. And no one.
Francine Rivers
#83. The White House has embarked on a mission to convince the people of our country that Social Security is in dire need of drastic change in order to save it for all workers.
Barbara Boxer
#84. A spirit of criticism, if indulged in, leads to a censoriousness of disposition that is destructive of all nobler feeling. The man who lives to find faults has a miserable mission.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#85. It is my mission to change the world. I'm not kidding: Make no small plans, dream mighty things. I feel if we get enough people engaged in climate change, we will get enough people to change the world. We will revolutionize the way we produce electricity and provide clean water to people.
Bill Nye
#86. For success of any mission, it is necessary to have creative leadership. Creative leadership is vital for government, non-governmental organisations as well as for industries.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
#88. God is equipping you, protecting you, & readying you to fight for the mission He has given you to change the world.
Paige Omartian
#89. I had done everything I could do as an astronaut, and we have a long line of inexperienced astronauts waiting for their first missions, and so my role really should be to step aside and help them prepare for their missions, rather than to try to get another mission.
Leroy Chiao
#90. I feel that if my only audience is the Christian audience, then I've failed in my mission
Eric Wilson
#91. It is not so much the case that God has a mission for his church in the world, as that God has a church for his mission in the world. Mission was not made for the church; the church was made for mission - God's mission.
Christopher J.H. Wright
#92. Feminism has exceeded its proper mission of seeking political equality for women and has ended by rejecting contingency, that is, human limitation by nature or fate.
Camille Paglia
#93. The time for debilitating fear is before and after the mission.
Karl Marlantes
#94. The historical mission of our times is to re-invent the human - at the species level, with critical reflection, within the community of life-systems, in a time-developmental context, by means of story and shared dream experience.
Thomas Berry
#95. This is our mission at home, to approach these future decisions without hesitation, to do our duty and to remain strong. We know the enemy, we have called him by name for the last twenty years: he is the World Jew. And we know that the Jew must die.
Julius Streicher
#96. A doctor's mission should not be to prevent death, but more importantly it should be to improve the quality of life.
Abhijit Naskar
#97. Data from orbiting telescopes like NASA's Kepler Mission hint that the tally of habitable planets in our galaxy is many billion. If E.T.'s not out there, then Earth is more than merely special - it's some sort of miracle.
Seth Shostak
#98. Wherever capitalism appears, in pursuit of its mission of exploitation, there will Socialism, fertilized by misery, watered by tears, and vitalized by agitation be also found, unfurling its class-struggle banner and proclaiming its mission of emancipation.
Eugene V. Debs
#99. Knowing themselves to be faultless, they make it their mission to detect the myriad faults in others, against which they wage incessant tongue.
Heron Carvic
#100. Once an organization has a strong sense of mission, leaders can focus on trying new things.
Margaret Hamburg