Purpose, or mission, is determined by the development of values, balance, ethics, humor, morality, and sensitivities. It manifests itself in the way we look at life. — Luci Swindoll
Your purpose in life is to use your gifts and talents to help other people. Your journey in life teaches you how to do that. — Tom Krause
You don't create your mission in life - you detect it. — Viktor E. Frankl
I think my mission is to become the greatest human I can. I know that sounds pompous, but what else do we have? — Kathleen Turner
A warrior's mission is to foster the success of others. — Morihei Ueshiba
Here to create an environment of love, live with passion, and make our most exciting dreams come true — Marcel Wanders
The purpose of life is to believe, to hope, and to strive. — Indira Gandhi
The one supreme business of life is to find God's plan for your life and live it — E. Stanley Jones
Greatness is a life mission being the best is not about being better than anyone else but striving to be the best that you can and bringing out the best in others — Dominick Cruz
God has created me to do Him some definite service; He has committed some work to me which He has not committed to another. I have my mission. — John Henry Newman
Every mission constitutes a pledge of duty. Every man is bound to consecrate his every faculty to its fulfilment. He will derive his rule of action from the profound conviction of that duty. — Giuseppe Mazzini
Our mission on earth is to recognize the void - inside and outside of us - and fill it. — Menachem Mendel Schneerson
Every individual was put on this earth to accomplish some purpose bigger than just making a living. — Joe Tye
Short Life Mission Quotes
To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal — Abdul Kalam
Find a purpose in life so big it will challenge every capacity to be at your best. — David O. Mckay
Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose — Leonardo da Vinci
My destiny is to go to heaven, my responsibility is to bring heaven. — Bill Johnson
Live your dream. Do what you came here to do. — Ralph Smart
The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do & then do it. — Henry Ford
Top 10 Life Mission Quotes
People talk of the sacrifice I have made in spending so much of my life in Africa. It is emphatically no sacrifice. Say rather it is a privilege. — David Livingstone
The Great Commission is not an option to be considered; it is a command to be obeyed. — Hudson Taylor
Do not think me mad. It is not to make money that I believe a Christian should live. The noblest thing a man can do is, just humbly to receive, and then go amongst others and give. — David Livingstone
The best remedy for a sick church is to put it on a missionary diet. — David Livingstone
This generation of Christians is responsible for this generation of souls on the earth! — Keith Green
To know the will of God, we need an open Bible and an open map. — William Carey
Any church that is not seriously involved in helping fulfill the Great Commission has forfeited its biblical right to exist. — Oswald J. Smith
I cared not where or how I lived, or what hardships I went through, so I could but gain souls to Christ — David Brainerd
When I get to China, I will have no claim on any one for anything. My claim will be alone in God and I must learn before I leave England to move men through God by prayer alone. — Hudson Taylor
We talk of the second coming, half the world has never heard of the first. — Oswald J. Smith
Life Mission Image Quotes
For what it's worth: it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of, and, if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over.
My Mission In Life Quotes
I didn't have anybody, really, no foundation in life, so I had to make my own way. Always, from the start. I had to go out in the world and become strong, to discover my mission in life. — Tina Turner
My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive — Maya Angelou
All my desire was the conversion of the heathen... I declare, now I am dying, I would not have spent my life otherwise for the whole world. — David Brainerd
Never be a prisoner of your past. It was just a lesson, not a life sentence.
I spent twenty years of my life trying to recruit people out of local churches and into missions structures so that they could be involved in fulfilling God's global mission. Now I have another idea. Let's take God's global mission and put it right in the middle of the local church! — George H. Miley
I believe that my personal mission in life is to grow and contribute, so I am learning and growing every day. — Farrah Gray
Oh, that I could spend every moment of my life to God's glory! — David Brainerd
There comes a point in your life when you need to stop reading other people's book and write your own.
My mission in life is to make everybody as uneasy as possible. I think we should all be as uneasy as possible, because that's what the world is like. — Edward Gorey
My mission in life is to preserve craftsmanship. — Waris Ahluwalia
I should never seek a job in my life, my mission in life is to create jobs. I am not a job seeker, I am a job giver. — Muhammad Yunus
It is my desire to show my attachment to the cause of Him who died for me by devoting my life to His service. — David Livingstone
My Mission Quotes
My mission is to lead the country out of a bad situation of corruption, depression and slavery. After I rid the country of these vices, I will then organize and supervise a general election of a genuinely democratic civilian government. — Idi Amin
My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws and to stop this incessant worrying that I can’t be loved as I am. — Anais Nin
If I had not felt certain that every additional trial was ordered by infinite love and mercy, I could not have survived my accumulated suffering. — Adoniram Judson
Some days I wish I could go back in life. Not to change anything, but to feel a few things twice.
So I start my mission- leave my residence
Thinkin how could I get some dead presidents — Rakim
The largest challenge that we face, from my perspective, is the ability to continue moving forward so the agency will have a single mission: that is, to provide decent, safe, and affordable housing. — Alphonso Jackson
My mission is a cosmic mission. My concern is for all of humanity, and not only this present world, but the world hereafter. My mission penetrates the past, present, and future, and encompasses all humanity. — Sun Myung Moon
Getting knocked down in life is a given. Getting up and moving forward is a choice.
Not, how much of my money will I give to God, but, how much of God’s money will I keep for myself? — John Wesley
I will drive reform in my mission to get the United Kingdom working, building and growing. — Liz Truss
When I first became interested in photography, I thought it was the whole cheese. My idea was to have it recognized as one of the fine arts. Today I don't give a hoot in hell about that. The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each man to himself. — Edward Steichen
I came to join the revolution, not to kill the Cambodian people. Look at me now. Am I a violent person? No. So, as far as my conscience and my mission were concerned, there was no problem. — Pol Pot
Missions In Life Quotes
The spirit of Christ is the spirit of missions. The nearer we get to Him, the more intensely missionary we become. — Henry Martyn
God's work done in God's way will never lack God's supply. — Hudson Taylor
The gospel is only good news if it gets there in time. — Carl F. H. Henry
The secret to living well and longer is: eat half, walk double, laugh triple and love without measure.
As long as I see anything to be done for God, life is worth having; but O how vain and unworthy it is to live for any lower end! — David Brainerd
I feel now, that Arabia could easily be evangelized within the next thirty years if it were not for the wicked selfishness of Christians. — Samuel Marinus Zwemer
Put your ear down to the Bible, and hear Him bid you go and pull sinners out of the fire of sin. Put your ear down to the burdened, agonized heart of humanity, and listen to its pitiful wail for help. — William Booth
Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction ends up being the biggest step of your life. Tip top if you must, but take the step.
He is not seeking a powerful people to represent Him. Rather, He looks for all those who are weak, foolish, despised, and written off: and He inhabits them with His own strength. — Graham Cooke
The greatest missionary is the Bible in the mother tongue. It needs no furlough and is never considered a foreigner. — William Cameron Townsend
Answering a student's question, 'Will the heathen who have not heard the Gospel be saved?' thus, 'It is more a question with me whether we, who have the Gospel and fail to give it to those who have not, can be saved. — Charles Spurgeon
Health, love, and your mission, in that order. Nothing else matters. — Naval Ravikant
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined... — Henry David Thoreau
I love being part of something that is working toward a greater goal, and there's no more satisfaction in life than achieving those goals as a team and being a part of that team. — Jim Harbaugh
Don't wait for everything to be perfect before you decide to enjoy your life.
My main goal in life is to just be happy. I don't compromise my happiness for anything. If I find what makes me happy I'm going to do that. That's really going with the flow of life. As far as like the mainstream stuff, if my destiny takes me there and I end up going that route, then that's fine. — Jhene Aiko
Every day is a new opportunity to reach that goal. — Rick Ross
The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it. — Michelangelo
Don't compare your life to others. There's no comparison between the sun and the moon. They shine when it's their time.
Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living. Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live. Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. — John Dewey
In order not to end up like the masses out there who are merely wandering and unsure of their goals and dreams, your objective must be clear. When your purpose is clear, your life will have meaning. — T. B. Joshua
The supreme purpose and goal for human life... is to cultivate love. — Ramakrishna
We need spirited, energetic and strong young people whose hearts are filled with life, enthusiasm, zeal and dynamism; whose souls are full of ambition, aspiration and vigor and have great goals, rising and aspiring to reach them until they eventually arrive at their destination. — Hassan al-Banna
Get the mind right, the body will follow, you lose some battles in life, but if you always put your heart and passion forward first as your main objective, you will win the war, that’s what gives you the strength to get off the ground… and do it again. — Greg Plitt
Life is like a piano, the white keys represent happiness and the black shows sadness, but as you go through life's journey, remember that the black keys also makes music.
The most important thing, the biggest love of my life, is my snooker. Ive never been so emotionally ingrained in something - in a person, an object, anything - as I have in snooker. — Ronnie O'Sullivan
If you do not know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere — Henry A. Kissinger
If you don't know where you are currently standing, you're dead. — Samuel Beckett
Failure are part of life. If you don't fail, you don't learn. If you don't learn you'll never change.
Man is only a moral being because he lives in society, since morality consists in solidarity with the group, and varies according to that solidarity. Cause all social life to vanish, and moral life would vanish at the same time, having no object to cling to. — Emile Durkheim
If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so is ugliness. — Rodney Dangerfield
The worker puts his life into the object; but now his life no longer belongs to him but to the object. — Karl Marx
The only foundation for . . . a republic is to be laid in Religion. Without this there can be no virtue, and without virtue there can be no liberty, and liberty is the object and life of all republican governments. — Benjamin Rush
Missionary Life Quotes
Infinite riches are all around you if you will open your mental eyes and behold the treasure house of infinity within you. There is a gold mine within you from which you can extract everything you need to live life gloriously, joyously, and abundantly. — Joseph Murphy
The motto for every missionary, whether preacher, printer, or schoolmaster, ought to be 'Devoted for Life.' — Adoniram Judson
A missional theology...appl ies to the whole of life of every believer. Every disciple is to be an agent of the kingdom of God, and every disciple is to carry the mission of God into every sphere of life. We are all missionaries sent into a non-Christian culture. — Alan Hirsch
An Inuit hunter asked the local missionary priest: If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell? No, said the priest, not if you did not know. Then why, asked the Inuit earnestly, did you tell me? — Annie Dillard
The saddest thing one meets is a nominal Christian. — Amy Carmichael
Only one life, a few brief years,
Each with its burdens, hopes, and fears;
Each with its clays I must fulfill.
living for self or in His will;
Only one life, 'twill soon be past,
Only what s done for Christ will last. — Charles Studd
Let us therefore give ourselves to God with a great desire to begin to live thus, and beg Him to destroy in us the life of the world of sin, and to establish His life within us. — John Eudes
All the resources of the Godhead are at our disposal! — Jonathan Goforth
A person repents when he comes to the place where he discovers that the will of God is the government of his life and the glory of God is the reason for his life. He only has repented who has changed his mind about his reason for being. — Paris Reidhead
The Indian is making an amazing discovery, namely that Christianity and Jesus are not the same - that they may have Jesus without the system that has been built up around Him in the West. — E. Stanley Jones
Life Aim Quotes
Life is not a problem to be solved, but an experience to be had. — Alan Watts
The aim of life is no more to control the mind, but to develop it harmoniously; not to achieve salvation here after, but to make the best use of it here below — Bhagat Singh
The tragedy of life is not found in failure but complacency. Not in you doing too much, but doing too little. Not in you living above your means, but below your capacity. It's not failure but aiming too low, that is life's greatest tragedy. — Benjamin E. Mays
A great goal in life is the only fortune worth finding. — Jackie Kennedy
Happiness is man's greatest aim in life. Tranquility and rationality are the cornerstones of happiness. — Epicurus
The aim of Positive Psychology is to catalyze a change in psychology from a preoccupation only with repairing the worst things in life to also building the best qualities in life. — Martin Seligman
The aims of life are the best defense against death. — Primo Levi
Many people have the right aim in life, they just never get around to pulling the trigger. The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps -- we must step up the stairs. — Vance Havner
The people are what matter to government, and a government should aim to give all the people under its jurisdiction the best possible life. — Frances Perkins
Do a little more than you're paid to. Give a little more than you have to. Try a little harder than you want to. Aim a little higher than you think possible, and give a lot of thanks to God for health, family, and friends. — Art Linkletter
Personal Mission Quotes
I continue to dream and pray about a revival of holiness in our day that moves forth in mission and creates authentic community in which each person can be unleashed through the empowerment of the Spirit to fulfill God's creational intentions. — John Wesley
The most effective way I know to begin with the end in mind is to develop a personal mission statement or philosophy or creed. It focused on what you want to be (character) and to do (contributions and achievements) and on the values or principles upon which being and doing are based. — Stephen Covey
It is possible for the most obscure person in a church, with a heart right toward God, to exercise as much power for the evangelization of the world, as it is for those who stand in the most prominent positions. — John Mott
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
To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission. — Charles Lindbergh
I am destined to proclaim the message, unmindful of personal consequences to myself. — Nicolaus Zinzendorf
Every highly successful person is a maniac on a mission. Too much agreement kills a chat — Eldridge Cleaver
A person is either a missionary or a mission field. — Corrie Ten Boom
There comes a special moment in everyone's life, a moment for which that person was born. That special opportunity, when he seizes it, will fulfill his mission - a mission for which he is uniquely qualified. In that moment, he will find greatness. It is his finest hour. — Winston Churchill
The moment you realize that happiness was never about getting a person. They are only a helpmate towards achieving your life mission. — Shannon Alder
People talk of the sacrifice I have made in spending so much of my life in Africa. Can that be called a sacrifice which is simply paid back as a small part of a great debt owing to our God, which we can never repay? All these are nothing when compared with the glory which shall be revealed in and for us. I never made a sacrifice. — David Livingstone
A man on a mission is far different from a drone on a deadline. — Rheta Grimsley Johnson
Would you be willing to give your life to save the world if no one ever knew your name? If anonymity was the price you would have to pay for significance, would it be too great a price? To live a life of courage is not a guarantee of prestige or adulation. It only matters if you live and die fulfilling the mission you were born for. — Erwin McManus
For the mission's sake, our country's sake, and the sake of the men who carried the Division's colors in the past battles - who fought for life and never lost their nerve - carry out your mission and keep your honor clean. Demonstrate to the world there is "No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy" than a U.S. Marine. — James Mattis
No one has the right to hear the gospel twice, while there remains someone who has not heard it once. — Oswald J. Smith
The mission of the church is missions. — Oswald J. Smith
I love to live on the brink of eternity. — David Brainerd
Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn't. — John Piper
If the Great Commission is true, our plans are not too big; they are too small. — Pat Morley
I believe that in each generation God has called enough men and women to evangelize all the yet unreached tribes of the earth. It is not God who does not call. It is man who will not respond! — Isobel Miller Kuhn
Your life is not your own: it belongs to God. To "be yourself" is to be and do what God wants you to be and do, knowing that God created you for a mission and knows you and your mission better than you do. — Leonard Sweet
Nothing so clears the vision and lifts up the life, as a decision to move forward in what you know to be entirely the will of the Lord. — John Gibson Paton
Everyone deserves the best start in life, which is what UNICEF is working to provide the world's most vulnerable children. Education is essential to a child's development. I hope that as an Ambassador I can encourage people to join UNICEF's mission to make education a reality for children throughout the world. — Clay Aiken
We who have Christ's eternal life need to throw away our own lives. — George Verwer
Nothing stops an organization faster than people who believe that the way you worked yesterday is the best way to work tomorrow. — Jon C. Madonna
I pray that no missionary will ever be as lonely as I have been. — Lottie Moon
If you take missions out of the Bible, you won't have anything left but the covers. — Nina Gunter
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