Top 1200 Mission And Vision Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

I have a bigger mission than any kind of specific politics, which is trying to restore the accessibility of rock 'n' roll.

On this flight, my fourth spaceflight, I also became the record holder for total days in space and single longest mission.

It takes a lot of time to be a good junkie or alcoholic - you spend hours getting the necessary supplies, then imbibing, then recovering, rinse and repeat. That's like eighteen hours of a day. And assuming you get out of that lifestyle before it macerates your heart, you have that Junkie Tunnel Vision, except now you get to use it for something positive: you know how to work tirelessly for one thing. Instead of using that tunnel vision to get high, I use it to make art.

I'm grateful for the time, energy, creativity and effort each artist has brought to the project to further the mission of The Lunchbox Fund.

Trump's vision for America parallels greatly with the vision that Ronald Reagan used and he implemented to revive the country during a very similar time where we had a president who told us that we were in a time of malaise in the American economy and that things are just gonna be that way for a while. Reagan steps up in that great first inaugural address and says, "And why shouldn't we dream great dreams? After all, we're Americans." And the American people came roaring back, the American economy came back.

Religion finds the love of happiness and the principles of duty separated in us; and its mission, its masterpiece, is to reunite them.

A diplomatic mission, like a company, is comprised of multiple departments, all of which must be relied upon to move business forward.

Holding our own government to account for the use of its power is, in my view, the highest mission of a U.S. news organization.

In a small spacecraft, it was hard for the other two guys to sleep when the on-duty man was talking to Mission Control regularly.

Once imbued with the idea of a mission, a great nation easily assumes that it has the means as well as the duty to do God's work.

One Body, Many Blogs is a nifty look at the mission to cyberspace that Christians, obedient to the Spirit, have undertaken! Read it and be inspired!

My fathers a clergyman, and he was in the mission field for a certain amount of time in British Honduras, which is now Belize.

Driving by my ambitions, desire higher positions, to see eternally and my mission, to be more than just a rap musician.

Often, organizations need bold, grand gestures to galvanize people towards a new mission or refocus their attention.

I'd like to do Broadway if the right project came along, but my mission in life is that I want to help change people's lives.

The effort of the economist is to "see," to picture the interplay of economic elements. The more clearly cut these elements appear in his vision, the better; the more elements he can grasp and hold in his mind at once, the better. The economic world is a misty region. The first explorers used unaided vision. Mathematics is the lantern by which what before was dimly visible now looms up in firm, bold outlines. The old phantasmagoria disappear. We see better. We also see further.

The task of preserving and advancing the highest humanity, given to this earth by the benevolence of the Almighty, seems a truly high mission.

It was such a relief. I lived in fear of being found out. Now it's given me a whole new mission in life.

The Minted mission is to be a community that supports designers from all over the world and provides them with an opportunity to be discovered and build their careers.

When we have no goal, or when our vision of the goal is obscured, we may lose our sense of purpose. Even when we've prepared ourselves well and have an aptitude for a given activity, poorly directed efforts can rob us of vital energy. We can spend a great deal of our time, money, and other resources running around in circles. Unless we create specific goals that match our purpose in life and unless we keep a clear vision of these goals, we may eventually falter and fail.

What strikes me most about Best Buddies International is the simplicity and magnitude of the mission. Friendship is a simple idea.

A man must have a battle to fight, a great mission to his life that involves and yet transcends even home and family.

I want to use the abilities that God has given me to do my job well and support my crewmates and mission and NASA.

The only one you should compare yourself to is you. Your mission is to become better today than you were yesterday.

Fighting cancer is my mission right now. The research and development of finding cures for this nasty disease is my passion.

A lot of the entrepreneurs and founders have big dreams and are on a mission to build things that the world has never seen before.

I believe the most important mission of the state is to protect the individual and make it possible for him to develop into a creative personality.

In a president, character is everything. A president doesn't have to be brilliant... He doesn't have to be clever; you can hire clever... You can hire pragmatic, and you can buy and bring in policy wonks. But you cant buy courage and decency, you cant rent a strong moral sense. A president must bring those things with him. He needs to have, in that much maligned word, but a good one nonetheless, a vision of the future he wishes to create.. But a vision is worth little if a president doesn't have the character - the courage and heart - to see it through.

In the opening chapters of the Book of Revelation the Apostle John tells us how on the Isle of Patmos he was given an awesome vision of the Lord Jesus, risen from the dead. Then John says, 'When I saw Him, I fell at His feet as dead.' He tells us not only the vision itself, but the profound effect it had on him. It utterly prostrated him before the Lord until He came and laid His right hand on him and said 'Fear not.'

Whoever you are, or whatever it is that you do, when you really want something, it's because that desire originated in the soul of the universe. It's your mission on earth.

In great deeds, something abides. On great fields, something stays. Forms change and pass; bodies disappear; but spirits linger, to consecrate ground for the vision-place of souls… generations that know us not and that we know not of, heart-drawn to see where and by whom great things were suffered and done for them, shall come to this deathless field, to ponder and dream; and lo! the shadow of a mighty presence shall wrap them in its bosom, and the power of the vision pass into their souls.

To be sure, American higher education is a diverse ecosystem, comprising institutions of all sizes, price tags, and mission statements.

You have to guard the integrity of your soul and what you believe and have a certain amount of faith not only the country but in God that this is part of the mission.

It's just stunning to watch churches struggle to get mission statements when there it is, the Great Commission, and they should simply do what it says.

The unique ability to take decisive action while maintainign focus on the ultimate mission is what defines a true leader.

I believed that English-speaking people had a divine mission to civilize the world by making it western, democratic and Christian.

Deep down, nobody wants a job to occupy his or her time. We want a mission that inspires us.

The greatest gifts you can give your team: clarity, communication, and pulling people together around a shared mission.

The personal mission statement was important for me because I believe that you can't lead others unless you have a strong sense of who you are and what you stand for.

Without a mission statement, you may get to the top of the ladder and then realize it was leaning against the wrong building!

I feel however, that we architects have a special duty and mission... (to contribute) to the socio-cultural development of architecture and urban planning.

When we went in the late 1990s, Nigeria was still in a dictatorship. So we didn't go with a mission. It started really with a sort of blankness and open-endedness.

I feel however, that we architects have a special duty and mission... (to contribute) to the socio-cultural development of architecture and urban planning

It is the artistic mission to penetrate as far as may be toward that secret ground where primal law feeds growth.

An untrained or uneducated Marine ... deployed to the combat zone is a bigger threat to mission accomplishment ... than the enemy.

When will we realize that one of the greatest mission fields in the West is the pews of our churches every Sunday morning?

Most people are at a concert because they want to be inspired, entertained, moved; we musicians have the mission to be bringers of joy, of ecstasy.

We have to wait and see when Donald J. Trump embarks his new mission, let's say, or position within this administration as President.

My mission is to just keep creating music. If it helps people in some way, then I'm doing the right thing.

Philosophy, for Plato, is a kind of vision, the 'vision of truth'...Everyone who has done any kind of creative work has experienced, in a greater or less degree, the state of mind in which, after long labour, truth or beauty appears, or seems to appear, in a sudden glory - it may only be about some small matter, or it may be about the universe. I think that most of the best creative work, in art, in science, in literature, and in philosophy, has been a result of just such a moment.

If I'm going to meditate, there is a little church up in Montecito, California. It's an old Spanish mission, actually. I find it comforting in there.

By boosting oversight and accountability, we can empower the VA in its core mission of helping the men and women who have served our country.

I never hesitated, as a student, in embracing the necessity of violence. In South Africa, I didn't just accept it; I looked forward to it as a mission.

I really like the mission at SurveyMonkey, which is, we help people make better decisions. It's just a great thing.

My album is very uplifting and positive and fun. That was my mission - to get people up on their feet and escape the seriousness of life.

When looking for new talent, I always look for artists who have something unique about them or are clearly on a mission.

Spirituality is not a question of morality, it is a question of vision. Spirituality is not the practising of virtues - because if you practise a virtue it is no longer a virtue. A practised virtue is a dead thing, a dead weight. Virtue is virtue only when it is spontaneous; virtue is virtue only when it is natural, unpractised - when it comes out of your vision, out of your awareness, out of your understanding.

A poet's mission is to make others confound fiction and reality in order to render them, for an hour, mysteriously happy.

Sometimes I think life's only mission is to bring us to our knees...the perfect position to seek God.

I'd start a business again in a heartbeat. Indeed, I hope that one day I may get the chance to do so when my mission here in Washington, D.C. is complete.