Definition of Mission

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Mission

The act of sending, or the state of being sent; a being sent or delegated by authority, with certain powers for transacting business; comission.

That with which a messenger or agent is charged; an errand; business or duty on which one is sent; a commission.

Persons sent; any number of persons appointed to perform any service; a delegation; an embassy.

An assotiation or organization of missionaries; a station or residence of missionaries.

An organization for worship and work, dependent on one or more churches.

A course of extraordinary sermons and services at a particular place and time for the special purpose of quickening the faith and zeal participants, and of converting unbelievers.

Dismission; discharge from service.

To send on a mission.

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Mission Quotations

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.
Mohandas Gandhi

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.
W. Clement Stone

Fit no stereotypes. Don't chase the latest management fads. The situation dictates which approach best accomplishes the team's mission.
Colin Powell

So what is so strange about saying I want Barack Obama to fail if his mission is to reconstruct and reform this nation so that capitalism and individual liberty are not its foundation? I want the country to survive. I want the country to succeed.
Rush Limbaugh

Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

America is a Nation with a mission - and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. We have no desire to dominate, no ambitions of empire. Our aim is a democratic peace - a peace founded upon the dignity and rights of every man and woman.
George W. Bush

Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.
Richard Bach

Here is a test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: If you're alive, it isn't.
Richard Bach

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 E. Frankl

Americans are not a perfect people, but we are called to a perfect mission.
Andrew Jackson

Mission Translations

mission in Dutch is missie, opdracht, zending
mission in French is mission
mission in German is Auftrag {m}
mission in Italian is missione
mission in Norwegian is oppdrag

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