Quotes About Meaning

If your goals aren't synced with the substance of your heart, then achieving them won't matter much.

Any goal without salvation as its ultimate end is as pointless as trying to live forever on this earth.

To reach your goal authentically is probably, in the end, going to mean much more to you than having reached it in a false way.

I think so many times we focus so much on just the end result when when we finally reach that point we realize that was never the true goal. That was never really what it was all about.

The value of the goal lies in the goal itself; and therefore the goal cannot be attained unless it is pursued for its own sake.

While goals are chosen, a purpose is discovered. Our purpose is something we have been doing all along, and will continue to do, regardless of circumstances, until the day we die

Despite the slowness, the infidelity, the errors and sins it committed and might still commit against its members, the Church, trust me, has no other meaning and goal but to live and witness Jesus.

Our larger goal is to tell the story

The goal of art-making in general is communication.

Not that that's the goal, but sometimes these funny insights can also be deeply profound.

I pride myself on being consistent. So, yes, it definitely means something, even though I don't set goals.

I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.

Ah, yes, divorce ... from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man's genitals through his wallet.

Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.

The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.

Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example?

I have been a believer in the magic of language since, at a very early age, I discovered that some words got me into trouble and others got me out.

I do not know the American gentleman, God forgive me for putting two such words together.

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

Is man one of God's blunders or is God one of man's blunders?

We have a lot of kids who don't know what works means. They think work is a four-letter word.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

God did not intend religion to be an exercise club.