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Quotes About Purposeful

Si pudiera impedir que un corazón se rompa no habré vivido en vano. Si pudiera calmar el dolor de una vida, o hacer más llevadera una tristeza. o ayudar a algún débil petirrojo a que vuelva a su nido, no habré vivido en vano.
~ Emily Dickinson
I'm not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I'm doing.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
As far as dating is concerned, I'm not a casual dating person.
~ Divyanka Tripathi
You have to be doing things that matter - responsibility, but also responsibility with epic and beautiful and noble tasks.
~ Michelle Bachelet
because when you ARE imagining you might as well imagine something worth while
~ L.M. Montgomery
An organized product of nature is that in which all the parts are mutually ends and means.
~ Immanuel Kant
Only by proper performance in a social context does the individual fashion and renew himself by purposeful action in a world of shared meaning.
~ Ernest Becker
Our weaknesses are divine gifts that when embraced will enable us to make our purposeful contribution to the whole, which is why we incarnated in the first place.
~ Andrew Schneider
Were I to attempt to be good to everyone, to the entire world and to all the creatures living in it, it would be a drop of fresh water in the salt sea. In other words, a wasted effort. Thus, I decided to do specific good; good which would not go to waste. I'm good to myself and my immediate circle.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
the mist felt oddly purposeful, as though it were on its way to an appointment.
~ Angie Sage
didn't have time for small talk.
~ Ann Cleeves
I am like the rain: I go where I'm needed.
~ Alejandro Jodorowsky
Faffing is completely harmless, whereas its opposite - dynamic, purposeful activity - is often very harmful. Faffers do not tend to kill people or make them work 12-hour days or sell them shoddy merchandise or lend them vast sums of money that they cannot pay back.
~ Tom Hodgkinson
seems so thoroughly thought through, so comprehensively intentional. Certainly,
~ Robert E. Barron
The difference between "active" and "busy" is that the former includes reflection and is directed, whereas the busy life feels out of control and does not seem purposeful or meaningful.
~ Robert J. Wicks
It was purely utilitarian.
~ Lee Child
Pick the things you do in this day wisely.
~ Summerlyn Guthrie
She thinks in a straight line," said Tsanko. "There are no detours in this woman.
~ Dorothy Gilman
Life becomes meaningful and all activities are purposeful only on the basis of faith in the enduring reality.
~ Meher Baba
Yoga is a practical method for making one's life purposeful, useful and noble.
~ Patanjali
A life that moves to gracious ends Thro' troops of unrecording friends, A deedful life, a silent voice.
~ Alfred the Great
From the outside, business can look like "a seemingly mindless game of chance at which any donkey could win provided only that he be ruthless. But that is of course how any human activity looks to the outsider unless it can be shown to be purposeful, organized, systematic; that is unless it can be presented as the generalized knowledge of a discipline." —Peter F. Drucker
~ Joan Magretta
I do pick my projects very meticulously. I want my projects to be meaningful.
~ Shohreh Aghdashloo
I'm someone who likes to keep busy, especially with projects that I find meaningful and fulfilling.
~ Niki Taylor