"Your job is not just to do..." - Quote by Oprah Winfrey
Your job is not just to do what your parents say, what your teachers say, what society says, but to figure out what your heart calling is and to be led by that.
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“I didn't just fall off the wagon. I let the wagon fall on me.”
“You are the author of your own life...Don't let others define it for you. Real power comes by doing what you are meant to be doing, and doing it well.”
“No matter where you are on your journey, that's exactly where you need to be. The next road is always ahead.”
More on Purpose
“A life directed chiefly toward the fulfillment of personal desires will sooner or later always lead to bitter disappointment.”
“The performance of duty, and not an indulgence in vapid ease and vapid pleasure, is all that makes life worth while.”
“Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.”
More on Calling
“There is no greater gift you can give or receive than to honor your calling. It's why you were born. And how you become most truly alive.”
“If God calls you to be a minister, don't stoop to becoming a king.”
“You can accomplish a hundred other things but if you do not accomplish the one thing for which you have been sent, it will be as if you have done nothing.”