Quotes About Purpose

Find out what you love. Do it because you love it. Stick with it. Start now.

Every time you worry that you could get trapped in some kind of work you don't care about, you're dealing with the problem of meaningfulness. I guarantee that in the back of your mind is the thought that somehow you have to make a contribution to something, be acknowledged, do something that matters--or you're just fooling around.

You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.

Where your intention goes," Gary Zukav writes in his bestselling book The Seat of the Soul, "so goes you. Your intention becomes your reality.

What do I need to have in my life to feel deeply satisfied? What do I know in my heart is keeping me from feeling satisfied and successful? What situations, relationships, beliefs, attitudes, thoughts, feelings, and choices have I made that are no longer serving me? If I had a year to live, where would I be? Who would I be with? What would I be doing?

If you were on your deathbed, looking back at your life, what would make you feel happiest and most satisfied with how you lived?

Money was not the major thing, but it was definitely a destination, someplace I wanted to end up.

The process of gaining power employs means which degrade or brutalize the seeker, who awakes to find that power has been possessed at the cost of virtue or moral purpose lost.

In the search for meaning we must not forget that the gods (or God, for that matter) are a concept of the human mind; they are the creatures of man, not vice versa. They are needed and invented to give meaning and purpose to the puzzle that is life on earth, to explain strange and irregular phenomena of nature, haphazard events and, above all, irrational human conduct. They exist to bear the burden of all things that cannot be comprehended except by supernatural intervention or design. This

Fate represents the fulfillment of man's expectations of himself.

prestige, and business, science and art not yet offering competing fields of endeavor, statecraft remained almost the only outlet for men of energy and purpose

What touched me the most about the Dalai Lama was his definition of the purpose of life. It was, he said, "to be happy." How does one accomplish that? I asked. "I think warm-heartedness and compassion," he replied. "Compassion give you inner strength, more self-confidence. That can really change your attitude.

Inspiration, on the other hand, is a call to creative action. We act because we want to, not because we have to.

A life without cause is a life without effect.

The first thing to be considered, with respect to education, is the object of it. This appears to me to have been generally misunderstood.

You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.

You've got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.

Liberty acting without motive is no more liberty, it is chance, and chance is another name for ignorance.

Certain of the angels having fallen, God made men, that they might take their vacated places.

If it isn't life's business to reward merit, why should it be life's business to give us warm, comfortable feelings towards its end? What possible evolutionary purpose could nostalgia serve?

All the work you've done up until now has been to lead you to this precise moment, to face precisely what you're facing.

Ambition -- it is the last infirmity of noble minds.

Focus on what makes you happy, and do what gives meaning to your life

Happiness as a goal is a recipe for disaster.