Quotes About Purpose

I submit to you that if a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live. -Martin Luther King

I have a lot on my mind and not a lot to do so it's going to come out, all of it, and then, then, it may begin to make a sort of sense

No, I am sure that He who, notwithstanding his apparent prodigality, created nothing without a purpose, and wasted not a single atom in all his creation, has made provision for a future life in which man's universal longing for immortality will find its realization. I am as sure that we live again as I am sure that we live today.

Having a sense of purpose is having a sense of self. A course to plot is a destination to hope for.

True education is limited to those people who would die without knowing, whereas the masses in the institutions are merely going through the motions, for education is a way of living.

One column of truth cannot hold an institution of ideas from falling into ignorance. It is wiser that a person of prudence and purpose save his strength for battles that can be won.

Ambition is not what a man would do, but what a man does, for ambition without action is fantasy.

Let us subdue the ravages of the baser-self, and aspire to the higher calling of exalting joy through compassion, for that is the one true purpose of humanity.

A life of success comes from seeking a life of beauty.

Surrender is not a weakness, or state of inaction, but rather a powerful state of pure energy; the energy of becoming your true purpose.

Do you want to know what you are? You are a creator. At every moment you are creating. The real question is, what are you creating?

The ultimate question of who we are is set before us at all times and answered with every action.

God is too busy making the sun come up and go down and watching so the moon floats just right in the sky to be concerned with color . . . only man wants always God should be there to condemn this one and save that one. Always it is man who wants to make heaven and hell. God is too busy training the bees to make honey and every morning opening up all the new flowers for business.

The secret of life is to find out what one really wants.

In life, we don't know why things happen. I believe God is not responsible for the bad things that happen to you. Sometimes I think He's responsible for the good things, but sometimes it's something you shape up for yourself.

Buckminster Fuller

Human beings are the only creatures on the planet that tell time and think they have to earn a living.

I live on Earth at present, and I don't know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing—a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process—an integral function of the universe.

The minute you choose to do what you really want to do, it's a different kind of life.

What have you done with my life?

Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it.

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

I love the life I live, I live the life I love.

To live without hope is to cease to live.