Mission Quotes

"Make your life a mission - not an intermission." - Arnold H. Glasgow, American Psychologist

"My mission is to create a world where we can live in harmony with nature." - Jane Goodall (1934 - ), English Anthropologist

"Management must speak with one voice. When it doesn't management itself becomes a peripheral opponent to the team's mission." - Pat Riley (1945 - ), Former American Basketball Player and Coach

"Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832), German Author

"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal." - Henry Ford (1863 - 1947), American Industrialist and Founder of the Ford Motor Company

"What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals." - Zig Ziglar (1926 - ), Motivational Speaker and Author

"Bitter experience has taught us how fundamental our values are and how great the mission they represent." - Jan Peter Balkenende (1956 - ), Dutch Politician

"Knowing our personal mission further enhances the flow of mysterious coincidences as we are guided toward our destinies. First we have a question, then dreams, daydreams, and intuitions lead us toward the answers, which usually are synchronistically provided by the wisdom of another human being." - James Redfield (1950 - ), American Author, Lecturer, and Film Producer

"In the midst of excitement, grief, joy, and solitude, I remind myself every moment that the sole mission of my life is to find 'the ultimate questioner' - that unimaginable who has put me in this madness to answer an unanswerable question." - Kedar Joshi (1979 - ), Indian Philosopher and Writer

"It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny." - Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983), American Writer and Philosopher

"Fit no stereotypes. Don't chase the latest management fads. The situation dictates which approach best accomplishes the team's mission." - Colin Powell (1937 - ), American Statesman and Retired Four-star General in the United States Army

"Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions." - Charles A. Garfield (1831 - 1881), 20th President of the United States

"Science has a simple faith, which transcends utility. Nearly all men of science, all men of learning for that matter, and men of simple ways too, have it in some form and in some degree. It is the faith that it is the privilege of man to learn to understand, and that this is his mission. If we abandon that mission under stress we shall abandon it forever, for stress will not cease. Knowledge for the sake of understanding, not merely to prevail, that is the essence of our being. None can define its limits, or set its ultimate boundaries." - Vannevar Bush (1890 - 1974), American Engineer

"Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it." - Viktor E. Frankl (1905 - 1997), Austrian Neurologist and Psychiatrist

"We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings." - Abraham H. Maslow (1908 - 1970), American Psychologist

"How do you know if your mission in life is finished? If you're still alive, it isn't." - Richard Bach (1936 - ), American Author

"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 A. Garfield (1831 - 1881), 20th President of the United States

"America is a Nation with a mission - and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. We have no desire to dominate, no ambitions of empire. Our aim is a democratic peace - a peace founded upon the dignity and rights of every man and woman. " - George W. Bush (1946 - ), 43rd President of the United States

"Americans are not a perfect people, but we are called to a perfect mission. " - Andrew Jackson (1767 - 1845), Seventh President of the United States

"If you want to take your mission in life to the next level, if you're stuck and you don't know how to rise, don't look outside yourself. Look inside. Don't let your fears keep you mired in the crowd. Abolish your fears and raise your commitment level to the point of no return, and I guarantee you that the Champion Within will burst forth to propel you toward victory." - Bruce Jenner (1949 - ) Former U.S. track and Field Athlete, and Motivational Speaker

"The difference between goals and mission is reflected in the difference between I want to get married and I want to have a successful marriage." - Author Unknown