Quotes About Purpose

Action will sometimes be required, but if you're really doing it in line with what the Universe is trying to bring to you, it's going to feel joyous. You're going to feel so alive. Time will just stop. You could do it all day.

What's money A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.

profit is the by-product of a successful enterprise not its raison d'être.

man was so engineered by God that the presence of the Creator within the creature is indispensable to his humanity.

Our lives take on meaning to the degree that our love and our actions are the same.

We must live with a goal .... because our goal will cause the things that will live in our absence .....

Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!

One lifetime is not enough to live

Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!

You can't make footprints in the sands of time if you're sitting on your butt. And who wants to make buttprints in the sands of time?

Creativity is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift to God.

And who wants to leave buttprints in the sands of time?

for the second half of life to be better than the first, you must make the choice to step outside of the safety of living on autopilot. You must wrestle with who you are, why you believe what you profess to believe about your life, and what you do to provide meaning and structure to your daily activities and relationships.

The key to a successful second half is not a change of jobs; it is a change of heart, a change in the way you view the world and order your life.

Peter Drucker told me that retirees have not proved to be the fertile source of volunteer effort we once thought they would be. They cut their engines off and lose their edge. Peter believed that if you do not have a second or parallel career in service by age forty-five, and if you are not vigorously involved in it by age fifty-five, it will never happen.

Whatever success you are having will never completely fulfill you. A life of significance — of really mattering — is yours for the taking, and the process I describe in this book will work for you.

After God made you, he stepped back and said, "This is a great one!

Likewise, for the second half of life to be better than the first, you must make the choice to step outside of the safety of living on autopilot. You must wrestle with who you are, why you believe what you profess to believe about your life, and what you do to provide meaning and structure to your daily activities and relationships.

God's desire is for you to serve him just by being who you are, by using what he gave you to work with.

What is your passion? What have you achieved? What have you done uncommonly well? How are you wired? Where do you belong? What are the "shoulds" that have trailed you during the first half? These and other questions like them will direct you toward the self your heart longs for; they will help you discover the task for which you were especially made.

My passion is to multiply all that God has given me and, in the process, give it back. And I would like to incite you to do the same. I do not want you to be the seed that fell along the path or was scattered in rocky places or was choked by weeds.

Peter Drucker advised people who were looking for their life's task: What are my values, my aspirations, my directions, and what do I have to do, to learn, to change, in order to make myself capable of living up to my demands on myself and my expectations of life?

If the first half was a quest for success, the second half is a journey to significance.