Quotes About Purpose

I'm not living, I'm just killing time

In endeavor itself there is a certain dynamic entertainment, affording an illusion of useful purpose. With achievement the illusion is dispelled. Man's greatest accomplishment is to produce change. The only good in life is study, because study is an endeavor that never reaches fulfillment. It busies a man to the end of his days, and it aims at the only true reality in all this world of shams and deceits.

I didn't realize that many people, who may be good people, feel that working in schools is just a job and not a holy mission.

The personal checks and balances that most of us bring to bear when we are employed in other activities - we ask ourselves if we are producing a socially useful product - operate less well in finance because, with few exceptions, making money is the Raison d'être (reason for existence) for the financier

My name is Raghuram Rajan and I do what I do.

Everybody knows they're on the Obama team: There isn't vice presidential vs. presidential division, there's not a generational pull. People have internalized that this is a real moment in history.

At the end of all these years, it doesn't matter to me who thinks of me as what. What matters is whether I have done what I could and whether I had done something I shouldn't have.

Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depth of your heart; confess to yourself you would have to die if you were forbidden to write.

Life is suffering. Life is not resistance to suffering. The point of life is to suffer. This is why we're here: We're here to suffer. I believe in a higher power that compassionately allows suffering for us as a race, to grow and mature.

There can be a reason for a reason already supplied and a reason for the reason for the initial reason.

Human beings were not made for time, time was made for human beings.

Success in any endeavor depends on the degree to which it is an expression of your true self.

Knowing what we are called to is important, but so is desiring it with all our heart.

You know, a man's life is a lot like a boat. If he keeps his sail set right it doesn't make too much difference which way the wind blows or which way the current flows. If he knows where he wants to go and keeps his sail trimmed carefully he'll come into the right port. But if he forgets to watch his sail till the current catches him broadside he's pretty apt to smash up on the rocks.

An investor without investment objectives is like a traveler without a destination.

Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it.

Men achieve a certain greatness unawares, when working to another aim.

Every man has his own vocation, talent is the call.

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honourable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is for you.

A good intention clothes itself with power.

I know of no such unquestionable badge and ensign of a sovereign mind as that of tenacity of purpose...

Instead of engineering for all America, he was the captain of a huckleberry party. Pounding beans is good to the end of pounding empires one of these days; but if, at the end of years, it is still only beans!

I wish that life should not be cheap, but sacred. I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant.