Quotes About Purpose

It's really easy to slide into a depression fueled by the pointlessness of existence.

I believe that each person can make a difference, but it's so slight that there's basically no point.

Research! A mere excuse for idleness; it has never achieved, and will never achieve any results of the slightest value.

Money doesn't drive me in the slightest.

I don't feel like I've nearly got to the place where I'm ready to even slow down.

I don't care if it's the slow way; I just want to do it the right way.

Even when we're keeping possession, I don't want to see the ball move slowly. What does that mean? When we pass it, we pass it with purpose.

Novelists who pretend to understand what keeps them scribbling are really just guessing. A profound, unmet childish need to be acknowledged? Maybe. It hardly matters, though. The termite that asks itself why it keeps chewing risks becoming sluggish and inefficient, as does the writer who grows self-conscious in the middle of chapter five.

Small aim is a crime; have great aim.

September 11 impressed upon us that life is a precious gift. Every life has a purpose. And I think we all have a duty to devote at least a small portion of our daily lives to ensuring that neither America nor the world ever forgets September 11.

Small aim is a crime.

Irrelevance is the feeling that an employee gets when they don't see how their job really makes a difference in someone else's life in some large or small way.

Don't look at small business as a means to an end and a way to make money until the corporation hires you; look at it as a chance to create something of immeasurable value and beauty in a world that desperately needs it.

But what we're determined to do, and what the reforms will do is to make sure this system goes back to its core purpose of taking the savings of Americans and from investors around the world and allocating those to people with an idea, not just the largest companies in the country, but to small businesses with an idea and a plan for growing.

The American citizen must be made aware that today a relatively small group of people is proclaiming its purposes to be the will of the People. That elitist approach to government must be repudiated.

My profession is very important but it's a small part of my life.

I don't like to do small things. If I'm going to do something, I'm going to really make an impact.

I don't like small things, I like big missions.

Many of us are walking around living smaller lives than we're meant to live. Don't allow yourself to dream smaller than you were meant to dream.

The smallest deed is better than the grandest intention.

From a motivation perspective, helping others enriches the meaning and purpose of our own lives, showing us that our contributions matter and energizing us to work harder, longer, and smarter.

Honestly, my smartest business decision was to never do anything that I didn't love doing.

I'm not invincible. I am not picture-perfect. The reason I am here is not because of the money; if I get to entertain people and put a smile on their face, I feel content.

If I do my job well, then God will smile on my offspring and on their offspring. I'm sure my father is seeing a blessing in me.