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Be the business never so painful, you may have it done for money.
Thomas Fuller
The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.
Norman Cousins
The sense of paralysis proceeds not so much out of the mammoth size of the problem but out of the puniness of the purpose.
To be a Sufi is to cease from taking trouble; and there is no greater trouble for thee than thine own self, for when thou art occupied with thyself, thou remainest away from God.
Abu Sa'id
It's not so much how busy you are, but why you are busy. The bee is praised. The mosquito is swatted.
Mary O'Connor
What is the quality of your intent?
Thurgood Marshall
Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.
Edward George BulwerLytton
We need not only a purpose in life to give meaning to our existence but also something to give meaning to our suffering. We need as much something to suffer for as something to live for.
Eric Hoffer
I see no business in life but the work of Christ.
Henry Martyn
I want you to know that also I will not make age an issue of this campaign. I am not going to exploit, for political purposes, my opponent's youth and inexperience.
Ronald Reagan
People should follow their own energy.
Will Schultz
Your greatest self has been waiting your whole life; don't make it wait any longer.
Steve Maraboli
Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.
Martin Luther King Jr.
She had that irony in her eyes. Knowledge without wisdom. Power without purpose. Like me.
Orson Scott Card
Anyone can live heroically and successfully for one day. The man who achieves a high purpose makes that day the pattern for all the days of his life.
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Ordinary people think merely of spending time. Great people think of using it.
If we don't stand for something, we may fall for anything.
He who clings to life shall lose it -- but losing it in a right cause will gain it.
What on earth are you doing for Heaven's sake?