Quotes About Purpose

Hirsch and Ford believe that we've 'demonstrated' enough. It's now time for 'doing.' This book shows how to be missional 'Right Here, Right Now.'

I do not want to pass the time. I want to grab hold of it and leave my mark upon the world.

Think'st thou existence doth depend on time? It doth; but actions are our epochs.

I think it's important how you spend your time. I try to make sure that I'm growing.

I had so much free time that free time was meaningless.

In my time at St. Mary's College, drifting out of sports because it was something that began to feel really finite. And I could see that I didn't have the passion to sustain a career in sports.

Do what you love and you'll always love what you do. I've found that that's true most of the time.

Not caring for their lives' is it? Why, what in the world is there that we should care for if it's not our lives, the only gift the Lord never offers us a second time.

Whomever it is you were born to be, whatever your soul was coded to accomplish, whatever lessons you were born to learn, now is the time to get serious and get going.

You cannot be in the presence of God and be bored at the same time. For that matter, you cannot be in the will of God and be bored at the same time.

Do we spend most of our days trying to remember or to forget? Do we spend most of our time running towards or away from our lives?

It's not how long a man lives, but how well he uses the time allotted him.

God didn't have time to create a nobody.

My big concern is me and what do I do now until the time of my death. That is valid. That is useful. That is beautiful. That is creative.

making order out of disorder any time, anywhere, can be regarded as a sacrament.

I don't know how much longer I'll be around. I'll probably be writing when the Lord says, 'Maya, Maya Angelou, it's time.'

Every memorial in its time has a different goal.

After all this time, I know exactly where I belong.

We walk from nowhere to nowhere, but at least during our journey we have time to think on how to be able to change this ambiguity!

Time. There seems to be vast quantities of the stuff spooling around me in all directions, everywhere i look. Days and hours. Weeks and minutes. Years. The hard part, ive discovered, is filling it.

But if all they did was kill time, time would end up killing them.

I will go to my grave wishing that I did more. Wishing that I didn't sleep as much. Wishing that I didn't waste so much time. Wishing that I fought harder.

I always thought the purpose of time was to move forward, not backward.

There are others who take up that (liberating) role. I have no time to spend for that.