Quotes About Purpose

doing and being are very closely tied together, and unless you are doing what you secretly want to do, you aren't able to be the sort of person you want to be.

It is a trap to presume that God wants to make us perfect specimens of what He can do— God's purpose is to make us one with Himself.

To not pursue the thing one wants would be a waste of one's life.

Your abilities are the map to God's will for your life. It points the direction. When you know what you're good at, then you can know what God wants you to do with your life.

Better you don't search for who you are until you know who it is you want to find.

God left so many fingerprints at the scene of Creation that you wonder — does He want to be found, or does He want to be stopped?

...like a grain of sand that gets into an oyster's shell. What if the grain doesn't want to become a pearl? Is it ever asked to climb out quietly and take up its old position as a bit of ocean floor?

What does the universe want from us? It wants us to be alive. It wants us to fully partake in life. The universe thrives on the music we create.

I live my life with a lot of integrity based on what I want for my life and who I am.

I want to find that defining moment that you're satisfied and you've done what you want to do in your life.

It's not getting what you want that's the hard part, it's deciding what you want.

I want to be happy. i want to make people happy. i do not need to be rich to do that.

If you don't know how you feel, you won't know what you want.

First be sure that you know exactly what you want to say. Then be sure you have said exactly that.

Sometimes, life isn't about what you want to do but what you ought to do.

You'd better know what you want, because you'll probably get it.

In the end, it's about what you want to be, not what you want to have.

This is what happens when you take a step: you are moving closer to what you want.

Be intentional about your life and what you want to accomplish, but understand there's no choice you make that you can't change.

Win or lose, people know what you want to do.

You have to want something or you're finished.

There is no God, there is only what you want.

Have fun. Keep your integrity. Do what you want to do and stay true to that.

It's a great feeling to do what you want and do what you love. Everyone should try it sometime if you're not doing it already.