Mission Quotes - page 2

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 Frankl)
My mission is to create a world where we can live in harmony with nature. And can I do that alone? No. So there is a whole army of youth that can do it. So I suppose my mission is to reach as many of those young people as I can through my own efforts. View quote
Jane Goodall
But the truth is that my work - I was going to say my mission - is to shatter the faith of men here, there, and everywhere, faith in affirmation, faith in negation, and faith in abstention in faith, and this for the sake of faith in faith itself; it is to war against all those who submit, whether it be to Catholicism, or to rationalism, or to agnosticism; it is to make all men live the life of inquietude and passionate desire. View quote
Miguel de Unamuno
Every mission constitutes a pledge of duty. Every man is bound to consecrate his every faculty to its fulfilment. He will derive his rule of action from the profound conviction of that duty. View quote
Giuseppe Mazzini
My mission is to suffer for all those who suffer without knowing it. I must pay for them, expiate their unconsciousness, their luck to be ignorant of how unhappy they are. View quote
Emil Cioran
My mission is to see things as they are. Exactly contrary of a mission. View quote
Emil Cioran
Every single empire in its official discourse has said that it is not like all the others, that its circumstances are special, that it has a mission to enlighten, civilize, bring order and democracy, and that it uses force only as a last resort. And, sadder still, there always is a chorus of willing intellectuals to say calming words about benign or altruistic empires, as if one shouldn't trust the evidence of one's eyes watching the destruction and the misery and death brought by the latest mission civilizatrice. View quote
Edward Said
Every empire, however, tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires, that its mission is not to plunder and control but to educate and liberate. View quote
Edward Said
We do not go to mission lands to 'bring Jesus Christ' as much as to uncover him where he already is. View quote
Catherine Doherty
The masterpiece should appear as the flower to the painter-perfect in its bud as in its bloom - with no reason to explain it's presence - no mission to fulfill - a joy to the artist, a delusion to the philanthropist - a puzzle to the botanist - an accident of sentiment and alliteration to the literary man. View quote
James McNeill Whistler
I'm a man with a mission in two or three editions And I'm giving you a longing look Everyday, everyday, everyday I write the book. (Elvis Costello)
It's being made out that the whole point of the war was to topple the Taliban regime and liberate Afghan women from their burqas, we are being asked to believe that the U.S. marines are actually on a feminist mission. View quote
Arundhati Roy
... the waiters carried themselves with a quiet joy, as if their entire mission in life was to make their customers feel comfortable and well tended. View quote
Julia Child
I think my mission is to become the greatest human I can. I know that sounds pompous, but what else do we have? View quote
Kathleen Turner
I will have a one-hour program called the Mission Watch, where I will describe details of the mission and give additional information about the lessons from space. View quote
Christa McAuliffe
A productive mistake is: (1) made in the service of mission and vision; (2) acknowledged as a mistake; (3) learned from; (4) considered valuable; (5) shared for the benefit of all. View quote
Pete Seeger
When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it. View quote
W. Clement Stone
Feminism has exceeded its proper mission of seeking political equality for women and has ended by rejecting contingency, that is, human limitation by nature or fate. View quote
Camille Paglia
Science has a simple faith, which transcends utility. It is the faith that it is the privilege of man to learn to understand, and that this is his mission. View quote
Vannevar Bush
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. View quote
Vannevar Bush
Don't be too quick To break bad habits: better stick, Like the Mission folk, to your arsenic. (Bret Harte)
The most important mission for a Japanese manager is to develop a healthy relationship with his employees, to create a familylike feeling within the corporation, a feeling that employees and managers share the same fate. View quote
Akio Morita
Wherever capitalism appears, in pursuit of its mission of exploitation, there will Socialism, fertilized by misery, watered by tears, and vitalized by agitation be also found, unfurling its class-struggle banner and proclaiming its mission of emancipation. View quote
Eugene V. Debs
It is Japan's mission to be supreme in Asia, the South Seas and eventually the four corners of the world. View quote
Sadao Araki
Man is in fact nailed down - like Christ on the Cross - to a grid of paradoxes... he balances between the torment of not knowing his mission and the joy of carrying it out, between nothingness and meaningfulness. And like Christ, he is in fact victorious by virtue of his defeats. View quote
Václav Havel