Quotes About Purpose

Regardless of where you are, I invite you, in the following pages, to discredit the view that the second half of your life will never measure up to the first. Instead of giving up and settling for life on its own terms, you are ready for new horizons, new challenges. You are ready to move from success to significance

The real test of a man is not when he plays the role that he wants for himself, but when he plays the role destiny has for him. Vaclav Havel

One of the most common characteristics of a person who is nearing the end of the first half is that unquenchable desire to move from success to significance.

How was it that I could be so successful, so fortunate, and yet so frustratingly unfulfilled?

I began asking myself questions like these: Am I listening for the still, small voice? Is my work still the center of my life and identity? Do I have an eternal perspective as a prism through which I view my life? What is my truest purpose? My life work? My destiny? What does it really mean to "have it all"?

God has a wonderful plan for the second half of your life: to allow you to serve him by doing what you like to do and what you are good at.

It is a book that challenges the reader to action, and in taking that action, to greater service to themselves, their families, their communities, and their Maker.

how to find meaning and fulfillment in the second half of our lives. In short, how to move from success to significance! Stephen R. Covey, Covey Leadership Center

This book will show you how to make the rest of your life the best of your life. I want every man in my congregation to read this inspiring story! Rick Warren, pastor, Saddleback Community Church

Let Bob Buford be your guide to make sure your best years are ahead of you. Ken Blanchard, coauthor of The One-Minute Manager

Always ask yourself the question "Is this going to help get me to my goal or not?

I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear. —ROSA PARKS

We come this way but once. We can either tiptoe through life and hope that we get to death without being too badly bruised or we can live a full, complete life achieving our goals and realizing our wildest dreams." - Bob Proctor

God's gift to you is more talent and ability than you will ever use in one lifetime. Your gift to God is to develop and utilize as much of that talent and ability as you can, in this lifetime.   Steve Bow

you have a wealthy mindset, you do what you love—and make money doing it. It's not the goal—it's the result.

We come this way but once. We can either tiptoe through life and get to death without being too badly bruised or we can live a full, complete life achieving our goals and realizing our wildest dreams.

Remember, wealth isn't just about generating money. It's doing what you love in the way you want to do it.

Your purpose is why you you're living, your vision is how you're going to execute it.

Determination is the intentional focus of our goals

Our attitude reflects who we are, where we want to be, and how we are going to get there, and why we do what we do.

Our purpose clarifies our goals; Challenges refocus new opportunities.

If what you're doing doesn't make you happy, you're doing the wrong thing.

for that pent?up ambition.

The whole process at the "Inny," as it was known, imitated a grand and long-standing intellectual tradition, and nothing defined it better than the august school motto: No nobis solum set toti mundo nati—You're born not for yourself but for the whole world.