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Quotes About Purpose

Real motivation is that drive from within: You know where you are going because you have a compelling image inside, not a travel poster on the wall.
~ Denis Waitley
Listen--are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?
~ Mary Oliver
If you don't know where you're going any road will do
~ Lewis Carroll
I now know, by an almost fatalistic conformity with the facts, that my destiny is to travel.
~ Che Guevara
When one realizes that his life is worthless he either commits suicide or travels.
~ Edward Dahlberg
I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.
~ Hilaire Belloc
Not money, or success, or position or travel or love makes happiness,--service is the secret.
~ Kathleen Norris
Just to travel is rather boring, but to travel with a purpose is educational and exciting.
~ Sargent Shriver
A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.
~ Jean Rostand
Where you come from does matter -- but not nearly as much as where you are headed.
~ Jodi Picoult
To climb the highest peaks, to travel through… celestial space, to turn our searchlights upon domains of eternal darkness, that is what makes life worth living.
~ Auguste Piccard
When we travel with a sense of mission, we attract events, people and opportunities toward us.
~ Robert Moss
What am I doing here?
~ Arthur Rimbaud
LeRoy says there's something you should know, not everybody has a place to go. And home is just a place to hang your head, and dream of things to do in Denver when you're dead.
~ Warren Zevon
There are those who travel and those who are going somewhere. They are different and yet they are the same. The successful one has this over his rivals: he knows where he is going.
~ Mark Cane
Modeling, for me, was not fulfilling. I didn't see the point - although I was able to travel a great deal. I lived in Italy, Germany, and Spain, but I wasn't devoted to it.
~ Tom Welling
Road, n. A strip of land along which one may pass from where it is too tiresome to be to where it is futile to go.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Do not think about or do anything without a spiritual purpose, whereby it is done for God. For If you travel without purpose, you shall labor in vain.
~ Marcus Eremita
Comes over one an absolute necessity to move. And what is more, to move in some particular direction. A double necessity then: to get on the move, and to know whither.
~ D. H. Lawrence
Hide your gold, your faith and the reason of you journey.
~ Eduard Heine
What every traveler confronts sooner or later is that the way we spend each day of our travel...is the way we spend our lives.
~ Phil Cousineau
Success is not the destination; it's a way to travel.
~ Denis Waitley
Travel agents would be wiser to ask us what we hope to change about our lives rather than simply where we wish to go.
~ Alain de Botton
What matter it how far we go?" his scaly friend replied."There is another shore, you know, upon the other side.
~ Lewis Carroll