#Mission Quotes

“I think my mission is to support people in being steadfast in not having thoughts of harm - thoughts of judgment, worry, or hatred - directed toward themselves or others.”

“If you know with a complete absence of doubt that what you are doing is consistent with your own purpose and that you are involved in accomplishing a great affair, then you are at peace with yourself and in harmony with your own heroic mission.”

“I'm not in the speech making business. I'm not in the seminar business. I'm not in the writing book business. I'm in the changing lives business.”

“Outstanding people have one thing in common: An absolute sense of mission.”

“I'm on a mission to help people grow and give. The more they grow the more they can give, the more life they build, the greater the quality of their life.”

“You must find something you want to live for that's bigger than yourself - a mission - whether it's your children, a business, a non-profit, whatever. That pulls you to achieve, which is far more sustainable than to push yourself to. You can only push yourself for so long.”

“Everyone here has the sense that right now is one of those moments when we are influencing the future.”

“Business purpose and business mission are so rarely given adequate thought is perhaps the most important cause of business frustration and failure.”

“The monomaniac is unlikely to succeed. Most leave only their bleached bones in the roadless desert. But the rest of us, with our multiple interests instead of a single mission, are certain to fail and have no impact at all.”

“Mission defines strategy, and strategy defines structure.”

“A fundamental responsibility of leadership is make sure that everybody knows the mission, understands it, lives it.”

“To satisfy the customer is the mission and purpose of every business.”

“The three most charismatic leaders in this century inflicted more suffering on the human race than almost any trio in history: Hitler, Stalin, and Mao. What matters is not the leader's charisma. What matters is the leader's mission.”

“Any time I have seen someone accomplishing something magnificent, they have been a monomaniac with a mission. A single-minded individual with a passion.”

“Whenever anything is being accomplished, it is being done, I have learned, by a monomaniac with a mission.”

“When I walked out of prison, that was my mission, to liberate the oppressed and the oppressor both.”

“Where my own mission is concerned, my thought is active, and I try to wish everyone well in spite of doubts and mistrust.”

“Nobody has to tell me that this is a serious business. I'm not fighting one man. I'm fighting a lot of men, showing a lot of 'em, here is one man they couldn't defeat, couldn't conquer. My mission is to bring freedom to 30m black people”

“Since the propagation of nonviolence is the mission of my life, I must pursue it in all weathers.”

“Through realization of freedom of India, I hope to realize and carry on the mission of brotherhood of man.”

“I think there are school teachers who are on the exact same mission as me.”

“Politics is different, because the mission is always to get the necessary votes. A good politician goes through everything in terms of mission and vision, and resourcing, but at the end of the day politicians have to make compromises in order to achieve consensus.”

“My main life interest and purpose is to bring spiritual awakening into this world, to be a vehicle for the flowering of consciousness, to help people to live more consciously with less unnecessary suffering and self-generated unhappiness.”

“The best leaders are those who break that mission down into the organization's constituent parts, so that everybody understands their role and how it all builds into the whole.”