Quotes About Purpose

My whole life, I felt like I was destined to do something important, but I was only ever good at videogames, which I always figured would be completely useless. But it's not useless, and neither am I. I think this is what I was always destined to do with my life. I just never knew it.

You cannot escape your destiny,' 

Now, I have a new quest. A far more important one." "And that is?" "Revenge.

That was what saved me, I think. Suddenly I'd found something worth doing. A dream worth chasing. For the last five years, the Hunt had given me a goal and purpose. A quest to fulfill. A reason to get up in the morning. Something to look forward to.

Then what are you interested in, Herobrine?" I asked. "Why are you here?

Then the Hunt for Halliday's Easter egg began. That was what saved me, I think. Suddenly I'd found something worth doing. A dream worth chasing. For the last five years, the Hunt had given me a goal and purpose. A quest to fulfill. A reason to get up in the morning. Something to look forward to.

A dream worth chasing. For the last five years, the Hunt had given me a goal and purpose. A quest to fulfill. A reason to get up in the morning. Something to look forward to.

It was a voice other than Reason that replied, 'You could live. You could be. You could do. There's a purpose you have to fulfil. You'd become more conscious of it every day you keep on living. There's a task for you; a responsibility that is yours and only yours.' 'Good enough,' I said. 'I'll get on with it.

Retirement is the ugliest word in the language.

Never confuse movement with action.

And that's all we are Jefferson, all of us on this earth, a piece of drifting wood. until we - each of us, individually- decide to become something else. I am still that piece of drifting wood, and those out there are no better. But you can be better.

Do I know what a man is ? Do I know how a man is supposed to die ? I'm still trying to find out how a man should live. Am I supposed to tell someone how to die who has never lived ?

As soon as sacrifice becomes a duty and necessity to mankind. I see no limit to the horizon which opens before him.

History is the footsteps of free men towards destiny.

Alle Zufälle unseres Lebens sind Materialien, aus denen wir machen können, was wir wollen. Wer viel Geist hat, macht viel aus seinem Leben. Jede Bekanntschaft, jeder Vorfall wäre für den durchaus Geistigen erstes Glied einer unendlichen Reihe – Anfang eines unendlichen Romans.

We were all of us cogs in a great machine which sometimes rolled forward, nobody knew where, sometimes backwards, nobody knew why.

Bisogna dunque tendere a ciò che si vuole, facendo quel che si può.

In a society with a long history of discrimination, there should be a presumption that many laws with a discriminatory impact likely were motivated by a discriminatory purpose.

Would you be willing to give your life to save the world if no one ever knew your name? If anonymity was the price you would have to pay for significance, would it be too great a price? To live a life of courage is not a guarantee of prestige or adulation. It only matters if you live and die fulfilling the mission you were born for.

Whether we realize it or not, everything we do is an expression of either how alive our souls are or how much we have allowed ourselves to be deadened over time.

The first and most important step in the process of becoming genuinely is to be once again authenticated by the original designer.

What is your idea of you? Who is it that you have decided to become? If your greatest work of art is the life you live, and ultimately life is a creative act, what life will you choose to leave behind as your masterpiece?

I grab a sticky note from my bedside table. Reasons It's Okay to Be Me: 1. This is exactly how God wanted me to be. 2. We don't all have to be doctors! 3. If everyone were a genius, we would have no normal people, and then geniusness would be a normality. Without me, Zach is not a genius. 4. Even though it is for Zach, I still get Cheesecake Factory too! Yay!