Quotes About Purpose

I wanted to run away from everything but I wanted to run towards something too. Don't you see, dear, how it was?

It is a great misunderstanding to want to discover something worth living for.

Find a cause that's larger than yourself and then give your life to it.

Making peace is not a simple endeavor. It is a constant struggle. But its complexity should not overshadow its purpose.

My only regret is not having dreamed more. I got my life as a gift. I'll give it up without an overdraft.

I was given my life, some two and a half billion seconds: I did some reckoning, and I decided to do something with those seconds so that I might make a difference.

Peace is a purpose—a goal worthy of the chase, while war is a function—born out of reluctant necessity.

What is man's ultimate direction in life? It is to look for love, truth, virtue, and beauty

What is man's ultimate direction in life? It is to look for love, truth, virtue, and beauty.

Service is the rent we pay for the privilege of living on this earth.

At first, there is something you expect of life. Later, there is what life expects of you. By the time you realize these are the same, it can be too late for expectations. What we are being, not what we are to be. They are the same thing.

I think of life itself now as a wonderful play that I've written for myself, and so my purpose is to have the utmost fun playing my part.

Purpose: A lifetime goal is called a purpose. To identify your purpose, ask yourself "If my age was a hundred today and I looked back at my life, what is it that I want to say is my accomplishment?" The answer is your purpose.

Purpose: A lifetime goal is called a purpose. To identify your purpose, ask yourself "If my age was a hundred today and I looked back at my life, what is it that I want to say is my accomplishment?" The answer is your purpose. Mission: A mission is an action that leads a person to a purpose through a philosophy.

Success is the progressive realisation of a worthy goal. – Earl Nightingale

Existence along is not a success. It is a lot more. Do more than exist-Live. Do more than touch-Feel. Do more than look-Observe. Do more than read-Absorb. Do more than hear-Listen. Do more than listen-Understand. -John H. Rhoades

Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at something worth doing. – Theodore Roosevelt

Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved. – William Jennings Bryan

This life is a one-way street.

Our lives are nothing but a short span of time. And if we spend tons of time earning money that we simply throw away, then we're throwing away part of our potential.

Making peace with suffering shows we have no imagination and little spiritual purpose.

Writing comes more easily if you have something to say.

To live without an aim is to wander in a wilderness

But as long as you think, "I am doing this," or "I have to do this," or "I must attain something special," you are actually not doing anything... when you do not try to do anything special, then you do something. When there is no gaining idea in what you do, then you do something.