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Purpose Quotes by Stephen Covey
- There are certain things that are fundamental to human fulfillment. The essence of these needs is captured in the phrase 'to live, to love, to…
- In effective personal leadership, visualization and affirmation techniques emerge naturally out of a foundation of well thought through purposes and principles that become the center…
- The first principle of ethical power is Purpose. By purpose, I don't mean your objective or intention-something toward which you are always striving. Purpose is…
- Once we are self-aware, we must choose purposes and principles to live by; otherwise the vacuum will be filled, and we will lose our self-awareness…
- The need to leave a legacy is our spiritual need to have a sense of meaning, purpose, personal congruence, and contribution.
- A personal mission statement becomes the DNA for every other decision we make.
- An empowering mission statement has to become a living document, part of our very nature, so that the criteria we've put into it are also…
- Creating and integrating an empowering personal mission statement is one of the most important investments we can make.
- Petty things become unimportant when people are impassioned about a purpose higher than self.
- The key to creating passion in your life is to find your unique talents, and your special role and purpose in the world.
- The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
- You can retire from a job, but don't ever retire from making extremely meaningful contributions in life.
- It's sometimes a painful process. It's a change that has to be motivated by a higher purpose, by the willingness to subordinate what you think…
- Family home evening is more for the purpose of teaching values and gospel principles, displaying talents and enjoying different kinds of family fun and activities.
- If you have a family mission statement that clarifies what your purpose is, then you use that as the criterion by which you make the…
More Purpose Quotes
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and… — Aristotle
- The health of the people is of supreme importance. All measures looking to their protection against the spread of contagious diseases and… — Chester A. Arthur
- We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives. If you don't know where you're aiming, you don't have… — Mary Kay Ash
- Stories serve the purpose of consolidating whatever gains people or their leaders have made or imagine they have made in their existing… — Chinua Achebe
- The purpose of all wars, is peace. — Saint Augustine
- There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for their knowledge,… — Charles Babbage
- I think it's important that people know what raising the debt ceiling is. It's Congress giving permission to the federal government to… — Michele Bachmann
- Listen, I think movies serve many different purposes, from those movies that are frivolous and just an entertainment, to movies that just… — Antonio Banderas
- The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where… — Henry Adams
- What is the purpose of the giant sequoia tree? The purpose of the giant sequoia tree is to provide shade for the… — Edward Abbey
- I am not the only person who uses his computer mainly for the purpose of diddling with his computer. — Dave Barry