Quotes About Purpose

Once true passion hits you, you can recognize all the times in your life you were chasing the wrong dream. And after you've experienced that sustained fulfillment, you'll never want to settle for anything less.

And if the great fear had not come upon me, as it did, and forced me to do my duty, I might have been less good to the people than some man who had never dreamed at all, even with the memory of so great a vision in me.

Christianity does not condemn any natural human feeling, but it will not let these interfere with present duty and destroy future usefulness. It does not send men to search for the purpose of living in the graves of their dead hopes and pleasures. Its disciples must not attempt to live on the relics of even great incidents, among crucifixes and tombs. In the Desert, the heart must reach forward to the Promised Land, and not back to Egypt.

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Such music is not only a new art form but a new reason for living.

Don't try to add more years to your life. Better add more life to your years.

All men seek happiness. This is without exception. Whatever different means they employ, they all tend to this end. The cause of some going to war, and of others avoiding it, is the same desire in both, attended with different views. The will never takes the least step but to this object. This is the motive of every action of every man, even of those who hang themselves.

Work was its own reward as ever, not least because it was the best way to avoid dwelling on life.

And the purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.

Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization.

Every day, people settle for less than they deserve. They are only partially living or at best living a partial life. Every human being has the potential for greatness.

If you have not taken the time to define what happiness means to you, what have your spent your whole life pursuing?

One's work usually occupies more than half of one's waking life. Choosing work that does not bring happiness will lead to a life that is mostly disappointing.

You might reasonably ask why Erickson didn't simply sell the business and start another company. In his book, he noted that his ex-partner's attorney asked him that very question, and his immediate, visceral reaction was no. He said he refused to consider the option. He later saw other entrepreneurs try that, and they all regretted it. Besides, he added, Clif Bar was where he belonged—"my place in the world.

Growth was a natural by-product of the company's success in pursuing its central purpose and reason for being, whatever that may have been.

Busyness is certainly one of the reasons that owners don't think about whether or not their journey is taking them to a place they really want to wind up. They're constantly preoccupied—it goes with the territory—and figuring out the ultimate destination doesn't seem particularly urgent alongside, say, meeting the next payroll or landing the next big customer

And yet the end result is not always a happy one, even for those who wind up with a pile of money on the table. Despite having absolute financial security, often for the first time in their lives, many owners find themselves dealing with unanticipated regrets, fighting against depression, and desperately in need of a new identity and sense of purpose. For them, life after the exit is a bleak period, and it can last for years.

Don't just dream your life, live your dream.

La vie deviendra un jeu, ou plutôt une variété de jeux, et non plus un jeu sans enjeu.

Nous tuons des gens par millions dans le but de vendre des Big Mac et des Cadillac aux survivants. [...] Morts pour rien - ou, pour mieux dire, morts au nom du travail. Or, le culte du travail ne mérite vraiment pas qu'on meure pour lui.

The most valuable gift you have to offer is yourself.

What you focus on is what you get.

Don't Talk About It, Be About It.

Before you were called to be a shepherd, you were called to be a lamb.