Quotes About Purpose

What really motivates people at Facebook is building something that's worthwhile, that they're going to be proud to show to friends and family.

If you knew when you were going to die, wouldn't you make your life more worthwhile?

I believe that we have been doing this not primarily to achieve riches or even honour, but rather because we were interested in the work, enjoyed doing it and felt very strongly that it was worthwhile.

What do you do with what you're given, and how do you transform it into something worthwhile?

I want to add something worthwhile rather than just chucking loads of stuff into the world. I don't want to feel responsible for adding to the soup of mediocrity.

I'm trying to make a case for those people who don't have a sense of belonging that they should have, that there is something really worthwhile in having a sense of belonging, and recasting and looking at our modern history.

Connecting with people, getting things done - that's what makes the travel worthwhile.

Basically, I should feel at the end of the day that I am doing something worthwhile.

If people can identify with me in a good way and get some inspiration out of what I've done, that's good. Then football's all worthwhile.

There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read.

Every day, at the end of the day, I ask myself, 'Am I living my life worthy of the sacrifice and commitment the people who went before me made on my behalf?'

I'm sort of of the belief that people kill themselves from the inside out. When they're unhappy with what they're doing, or not achieving things - when your focus is off-kilter. The thing that keeps me ticking is my values. And I maintain them, because they're worthy. I like to wake up and feel I've done no wrong. I like that feeling.

In life, the first thing you must do is decide what you really want. Weigh the costs and the results. Are the results worthy of the costs? Then make up your mind completely and go after your goal with all your might.

'How much longer will I live?'... Only one thing seems clear to me. Every day should be well-lived. What a simple truth! Still, it is worthy of my attention.

If you can save one body, and one heart and soul and mind, then it's a worthy cause and a worthy venture.

Each is under the most sacred obligation not to squander the material committed to him, not to sap his strength in folly and vice, and to see at the least that he delivers a product worthy the labor and cost which have been expended on him.

Often and often must he have thought, that, to be or not to be forever, was a question, which must be settled; as it is the foundation, and the only foundation upon which we feel that there can rest one thought, one feeling, or one purpose worthy of a human soul.

To live is shared by all, but not to be worthy of living.

I have to remind myself when I'm on a job and I'm feeling a lull in attitude or confidence or whatever, I'm there for a reason. I have to constantly remind myself of these almost corny Pinterest mantras, like 'You are worthy.'

For me, whatever you write about should be worthy of your attention, worthy of your gifts. That's very important.

I don't want to sound too worthy here, but I want to do something that honestly contributes something positive to society.

In my career I always tried to improve to become one of the great players, because I felt I had received a gift from God and I had to make good use of it, to become worthy of having received this talent.

I caution people away from quitting their jobs to travel the world because I don't think traveling the world is a worthy cause on its own.

I never really wanted to write a book in the first place. Never intended to do such. I feel like I wasted a lot of my life, so I didn't feel like it was worthy of a book.