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Quotes About Purpose

Ordinary people merely think how they shall 'spend' their time; a man of talent tries to 'use' it.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
I see more people all the time feeling something growing from within them to more fully realize their heart's desire, their desire to give more, to be more, to do more.
~ Barbara Marx Hubbard
Only those who live forever can act like there's time to waste.
~ Ben Huh
All I wanted was to be a pea of being inside the green pod of time.
~ Billy Collins
From the first time I saw Sid Caesar be funny I knew that's what I had to do.
~ Billy Crystal
Know what you love and do what you love. If you don't do what you love, you're just wasting your time.
~ Billy Joel
Don't be silly and don't waste your time.
~ Bob Newhart
Be sure it is not for nothing that the Landlord has knit our hearts so closely to time and place – to one friend rather than another and one shire more that all the land.
~ C. S. Lewis
Enough had been thought, and said, and felt, and imagined. It was about time that something should be done.
~ C. S. Lewis
If I quit having fun, then it's time for me to quit working.
~ Charlaine Harris
I think you have to remember to do things for the right reason. Do the right thing, so you can be happy with all your decisions and happy with how spent time in the world.
~ Chris Wyse
It doesn't matter who we are, how rich we are, how poor we are, famous or not famous, we all have a short window of time here on the planet and what are we going to do with it?
~ Christian Slater
To try deliberately for self-actualization is like trying very hard to fall asleep or to have a good time.
~ Cornelius Plantinga
Finding a good cause is incredibly hard and time-consuming.
~ Craig Newmark
Not all debt is bad. From time to time we should get into debt when there's a good reason for that.
~ Dan Ariely
We all have such a finite time to leave the world better than we found it.
~ Dave Kellett
Would the Lord send one of the Twelve Apostles halfway around the world to help just one person? The answer is YES. He does it all the time.
~ David A. Bednar
We may get a paycheck, but over time what we sense is the dying of our souls.
~ David Kim
I hope I'm not sitting on a bench in a retirement home talking about what was: "Oh, I worked with this guy and that guy." I hope I'm still doing it for a really long time.
~ David Krumholtz
We wasn't born to be all the time scared, we was born happy.
~ Dean Koontz
I'm more focused on the positives of why I'm here. I'll be able to address those things in due time. Right now it's about the Thunder and Oklahoma City.
~ Derek Fisher
Every time someone says, 'You know, we really ought to get together,' if I were really honest, I would ask 'Why?'
~ Dick Cavett
You're going to die. That's going to happen. What matters is what you do with your time before you get flushed out.
~ Dick Van Dyke
I've wanted to manage a long time and I've been moving in that direction.
~ Don Mattingly