Quotes About Purpose

My greatest ambition is to have a career without becoming a career woman.

Dance is one thing to do with your life. But it is not the only thing.

Failure to follow desire, to do what you want to do most, paves the way to mediocrity.

Where we are today is where we're meant to be. It's where we need to be to get where we're going tomorrow. And that place we're going tomorrow will be better than any we've been before

To be happy we need someone to love, something to do, and something to look forward to. I

We develop a personal relationship with God, a Higher Power of our understanding. We find meaning in every detail of our lives; there isn't anything that we did or that happened to us that can't be used for good. We finally find our purpose

Whenever you commit, your energy and resources will follow.

you guys are living life for yourselves. You're leaving God totally out of it, and as a result things can get pretty messed up.

You're down now, Jordan, but only for awhile. I think God is giving you a chance to really look at your life and decide just how you want to live it. That's right, said Kara. You can keep on living it for yourself or invite God to take over.

The willpower to do anything would come, the songs and writings said, if the motive was pure.

I just want them to discover something they can do that makes them contented and feeling as if they are doing something worth doing.

To praise God is to express our acceptance of something that God is permitting to happen. So to praise God for difficult situations, as sickness or disaster, means literally that we accept its happening, as part of God's plan to reveal His perfect love for us. We

Thank God for every detail of your life and believe He has permitted all of these things in order to bring you to the place where you are now.

This is your life. Be bold with it. Live it with energy and purpose in the direction that excites you. Listen to your heart, look for your dreams: they are God-inspired.

You are wonderfully and powerfully made. In other words: it is no accident you are good at certain things!

Many are called, but few are chosen.

I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full. JOHN 10:10

This quote from T.E. Lawrence means a lot to me: All men dream; but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible.

Instinct doesn't always tell us to choose the easier path, but it will guide you towards the right one. Your subconscious intuition wants you to survive and to thrive. It isn't clouded by ego or others' opinions - those fickle things live in the conscious mind. Your instinct has a clearer purpose: to help you. Listen to it. Learn to recognize it. Acknowledge it when it speaks and have faith in it. Instinct is the nose of the mind. So trust it.

The will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth… Love is as love does. Love is an act of will-namely, both an intention and an action. Will also implies choice. We do not have to love. We choose to love.

I was in my mid-twenties when I first learned to understand love as the will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth.

it [living purposefully] entails taking responsibility for consciously creating goals, identifying the actions necessary to achieve the, making sure our behavior is in alignment with our goals, and paying attention to the outcome of our actions so that we see whether they are leading us where we want to go.

We must seet a value in life that is above and beyond profit motives.

the will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth." Explaining further, he continues: "Love is as love does. Love is an act of will—namely, both an intention and an action. Will also implies choice. We do not have to love. We choose to love." Since the choice must be made to nurture growth, this definition counters the more widely accepted assumption that we love instinctually.