Mission Quotes

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history. (Mahatma Gandhi)
Here is a test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: If you're alive, it isn't. View quote
Richard Bach
The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation. View quote
William McKinley
I don't believe there is any finer mission on earth than just to make people laugh. View quote
Roscoe Arbuckle
Facebook was not originally created to be a company. It was built to accomplish a social mission - to make the world more open and connected. View quote
Mark Zuckerberg
Creativity and artistic endeavors have a mission that goes far beyond just making music for the sake of music. View quote
Herbie Hancock
I didn't have anybody, really, no foundation in life, so I had to make my own way. Always, from the start. I had to go out in the world and become strong, to discover my mission in life. View quote
Tina Turner
Fit no stereotypes. Don't chase the latest management fads. The situation dictates which approach best accomplishes the team's mission. View quote
Colin Powell
The powers, aspirations, and mission of man are such as to raise the study of his origin and nature, inevitably and by the very necessity of the case, from the mere physiological to the psychological stage of scientific operations. View quote
Richard Owen
My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style. View quote
Maya Angelou
There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation. (Walter Lippmann)
Outstanding people have one thing in common: An absolute sense of mission. View quote
Zig Ziglar
Nothing prevents us from being and remaining the exponents of a united humanity, when we have a country of our own. To fulfill this mission we do not have to remain literally planted among the nations who hate and despise us. View quote
Theodor Herzl
We always knew how to honor fallen soldiers. They were killed for our sake, they went out on our mission. But how are we to mourn a random man killed in a terrorist attack while sitting in a cafe? How do you mourn a housewife who got on a bus and never returned? View quote
A. B. Yehoshua
It has become my mission to stop the insanity of wild cats as pets. View quote
Tippi Hedren
I feel however, that we architects have a special duty and mission... (to contribute) to the socio-cultural development of architecture and urban planning. View quote
Kenzo Tange
I see the Jedi mission as giving up a normal life in exchange for protecting the innocent. It's a life of sacrifice. There are rewards, but also a certain degree of sterility. View quote
Alan Dean Foster
The largest challenge that we face, from my perspective, is the ability to continue moving forward so the agency will have a single mission: that is, to provide decent, safe, and affordable housing. View quote
Alphonso Jackson
Let us face it, the U.N. has failed. It has failed in its mission to promote world peace. View quote
Ginny Brown-Waite
War may be an armed angel with a mission, but she has the personal habits of the slums. View quote
Rebecca Harding Davis
Follow the road behind the Emperor. We must build the world for Japan's sake, heaven ordered Japan to achieve this great mission. (Kingoro Hashimoto)
Beneath the surface of states and nations, ideas and language, lies the fate of individual human beings in need. Answering their needs will be the mission of the United Nations in the century to come. View quote
Kofi Annan
In the 21st Century I believe the mission of the United Nations will be defined by a new, more profound, awareness of the sanctity and dignity of every human life, regardless of race or religion. View quote
Kofi Annan
Teaching and research are not to be confused with training for a profession. Their greatness and their misfortune is that they are a refuge or a mission. View quote
Claude Lévi-Strauss
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. View quote
Paulo Coelho