Quotes About Purpose

We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.

One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.

The soul of dispatch is decision.

Of all paths a man could strike into, there is, at any given moment, a best path which, here and now, it were of all things wisest for him to do. To find this path, and walk in it, is the one thing needful for him.

There is one quality more important than know-how.... This is know-how by which we determine not only how to accomplish our purposes, but what our purposes are to be.

To everything there is a season, A time for every purpose under heaven.... A time to weep, and a time to laugh, A time to mourn, and a time to dance.

All things come to him who waits- provided he knows what he is waiting for.

I was born to other things.

Drink! for you know not whence you came, nor why: Drink! for you know not why you go, nor where.

To do my duty in that state of life unto which it shall please God to call me.

I have always had a dread of becoming a passenger in life.

Energy is equal to desire and purpose.

All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

What one has, one ought to use; and whatever he does, he should do with all his might.

Every night before I turn out the lights to sleep, I ask myself this question: Have I done everything that I can.... Have I done enough?

The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

Not failure, but low aim, is a crime.

There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go.

Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best.

There goes a man made by the Lord Almighty and not by his tailor.

Destiny is what you are supposed to do in life. Fate is what kicks you in the ass to make you do it.

Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.

To know what has to be done, then do it, comprises the whole philosophy of practical life.

Few begin with anything like a clear view of what they want to do, and the fortune they seek may come in a very different form from that which they have kept in view.