Quotes About Purpose

Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap.

Isn't that why we're put on this earth to begin with, to make it a better place? It's not a religious quest; it's a humanitarian one.

and I'd be a human being again and not a maker of béchamel sauce.

A doctrine serves no purpose in itself, but it is indispensable to have one if only to avoid being deceived by false doctrines.

I think perhaps we want a more conscious life.

For in the country, farm or town, you always know. No one's just there. There's always a source, a why and wherefore.

The sooner you do what you are meant to do, the better."

Be grateful for each day that your Lord has given you by doing great to the world.

Before we ask God for blessings, let us first ask him for vision.

Don't just walk, but make each of your steps count.

Find a way while there's still light.

Forget about the journey, but think about the destination.

Never seek what you are not, but nurture what you are.

Try to fulfill your dreams and desires. Our lifespan is too short to relax.

We accomplish nothing good in life, before we find out who we are.

We live according to an agenda we drafted for ourselves.

Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.

leave such mistakes for time to set right. And when the truth comes in such a case it comes to some purpose.

Waste of time is waste of time for everyone.

People spend their lives in the service of their passions instead of employing their passions in the service of their lives.

The longer I live, the more I am certain that the great difference between the great and the insignificant, is energy - invincible determination--a purpose once fixed, and then death or victory.

Oblivion is not to be hired: The greater part must be content to be as though they had not been, to be found in the Register of God, not in the record of man.

We shall never learn to feel and respect our real calling and destiny, unless we have taught ourselves to consider every thing as moonshine, compared with the education of the heart.

The service we render others is the rent we pay for our room on earth.