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• Our lives should be more than just focusing on our marriage but on focusing our marriage toward what God's mission is for us as a couple.

  Francis Chan

  Love, Marriage, Couple

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• What I love about design is the artistic and scientific complexity that also becomes useful . . . Great designers also pursue a mission. Great designers design with mankind in mind . . . The crossroads of science and art, innovation and inspiration are what I love about design.

  Michelle Obama

  Art, Inspiration, Design

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• I believe that the president's (Bush) leadership in the actions taken in Iraq demonstrate an incompetence in terms of knowledge, judgment and experience in making the decisions that would have been necessary to truly accomplish the mission without the deaths to our troops and the cost to our taxpayers.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Taken, Believe, Iraq

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• It is true that Christianity is not bound up with any particular race or culture. It is neither of the East or of the West, but has a universal mission to the human race as a whole

  Christopher Dawson

  Race, East, Culture

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• The priestly vocation is essentially a call to sanctity, in the form that derives from the Sacrament of Holy Orders.  Sanctity is intimacy with God; it is the imitation of Christ, poor, chaste and humble; it is unreserved love for souls and self-giving to their true good; it is love for the church which is holy and wants us to be holy, because such is the mission that Christ has entrusted to it.  Each one of you must be holy also in order to help your brothers pursue their vocation to sanctity.

  Pope John Paul I

  Brother, Humble, Self

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• Life is a mission, not a career.

  Stephen Covey

  Motivational, Careers, Life Is

  Stephen R. Covey (2013). “The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness”, p.328, Simon and Schuster

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• We've trained and trained for a reason: to be better at the craft of war than our enemy, to use our skill to perform the mission, and to accept the risks. As American warriors, it's our obligation to protect the innocent. And that means, sometimes, that we're the ones who need to be put on the disadvantaged side of the threat cycle.

  Marcus Luttrell

  War, Mean, Skills

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• Your life is not your own: it belongs to God. To "be yourself" is to be and do what God wants you to be and do, knowing that God created you for a mission and knows you and your mission better than you do.

  Leonard Sweet

  Life, God, Christian

  Leonard Sweet (2002). “Soulsalsa: 17 Surprising Steps for Godly Living in the 21st Century”, p.11, Harper Collins

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• Our young men are going into the professional fields because they don't 'feel called' to the mission field. We don't need a call; we need a kick in the pants. We must begin thinking in terms of 'going out,' and stop our weeping because 'they won't come in.' Who wants to step into an igloo? The tombs themselves are not colder than the churches. May God send us forth.

  Jim Elliot

  Men, Thinking, Church

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• I've always been on a personal mission to save the guitar.

  Tom Morello

  Guitar, Personal Mission

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

  Peter Drucker

  Business, Frustration, Important

  Peter F. Drucker (2009). “The Essential Drucker: The Best of Sixty Years of Peter Drucker's Essential Writings on Management”, p.31, Harper Collins

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• Viewing the man from the genuine abolitionist ground, Mr. Lincoln seemed cold, tardy, weak and unequal to the task. But, viewing him from the sentiments of his people, which as a statesman he was bound to respect, then his actions were swift, bold, radical and decisive. Taking the man in the whole, balancing the tremendous magnitude of the situation, and the necessary means to ends, Infinite Wisdom has rarely sent a man into the world more perfectly suited to his mission than Abraham Lincoln.

  Frederick Douglass

  War, Mean, Men

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• You don't create your mission in life - you detect it.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Journey, Missions In Life

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

  Paul Washer

  Morning, Sunday, Church

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• Common mission trap for companies: trying to be all things to all people at all times.

  Jack Welch

  People, Trying, Common

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• The mission of Christian humility in social life is not merely to edify, but to keep minds open to many alternatives. The rigidity of a certain type of Christian thought has seriously impaired this capacity, which nonviolence must recover.

  Thomas Merton

  Christian, Humility, Mind

  Thomas Merton (1976). “Thomas Merton: On Peace”, Andrew Mowbray Incorporated, Publishers

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• I will fight in the United States Senate this year to fund a servicing mission to Hubble by 2008, a mission that would potentially increase Hubbles power and efficiency by a factor of 10 and allow us to look back almost to the beginning of the universe.

  Barbara Mikulski

  Fighting, Years, United States

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• My mission was that I wanted to see people on the street that I don't know wearing my clothes. That excites me.

  Alexander Wang

  Clothes, People, Streets

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• Certain days I think definitely because we went in there and we got Saddam and that was our mission. On other days, we lost so many lives and so many brothers and sisters...on that aspect, no.

  Jessica Lynch

  Brother, Thinking, Lost

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• It’s dangerous to assume that because a person is drawn to holiness in his study that he is thereby a holy man. There is irony here. I am sure that the reason I have a deep hunger to learn of the holiness of God is precisely because I am not holy. I am a profane man—a man who spends more time out of the temple than in it. But I have had just enough of a taste of the majesty of God to want more. I know what it means to be a forgiven man and what it means to be sent on a mission. My soul cries for more. My soul needs more.

  R. C. Sproul

  Mean, Men, Here I Am

  R. C. Sproul (2013). “The Holiness of God”, p.33, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• Mission arises from the heart of God Himself and is communicated from His heart to ours. Mission is the global outreach of the global people of a global God.

  John Stott

  Heart, People, Arise

  John Stott (1992). “The contemporary Christian: an urgent plea for double listening”

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• Don't be ashamed to need help. Like a soldier storming a wall, you have a mission to accomplish. And if you've been wounded and you need a comrade to pull you up? So what?

  Marcus Aurelius

  Motivational, Wall, Soldier

  Marcus Aurelius, Plato, Aristotle (2012). “The Modern Library Collection of Greek and Roman Philosophy 3-Book Bundle: Meditations; Selected Dialogues of Plato; The Basic Works of Aristotle”, p.191, Modern Library

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• Most people believe that great leaders are distinguished by their ability to give compelling answers. This profound book shatters that assumption, showing that the more vital skill is asking the right questions…. Berger poses many fascinating questions, including this one: What if companies had mission questions rather than mission statements? This is a book everyone ought to read—without question.

  Adam Grant

  Book, Believe, Skills

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• There was only one catch and that was Catch22, which specified that a concern for one's safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind. Orr was crazy and could be grounded. All he had to do was ask, and as soon as he did, he would no longer be crazy and would have to fly more missions. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to he was sane and had to.

  Joseph Heller

  Crazy, Real, Safety

  Catch-22 ch. 5 (1961).

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• I gained in experience with every plane shot down, and now was able to fire in a calm, deliberate manner. Each attack was made in a precise manner. Distance and deflection were carefully judged before firing. This is not something that comes by accident; only by experience can a pilot overcome feelings of panic. A thousand missions could be flown and be of no use if the pilot has not exchanged fire with the enemy.

  John Trevor Godfrey

  Distance, Fire, Feelings

  John Trevor Godfrey (1958). “The look of eagles”

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