Quotes About Purpose

What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motions of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason.

The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.

Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

The poor man is not he who is without a cent, but he who is without a dream.

The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live to purpose.

Unless you give yourself to some great cause, you haven't even begun to live.

If we could only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life that we give to the question of what to do with a two weeks' vacation, we would be startled at our false standards and the aimless procession of our busy days.

To live means to have ... a mission to fulfill-and in the measure in which we avoid setting our life to something, we make it empty.

Without a purpose, nothing should be done.

To grow and know what one is growing towards-that is the source of all strength and confidence in life.

Men cannot for long live hopefully unless they are embarked upon some great unifying enterprise, one for which they may pledge their lives, their fortunes and their honor.

No pleasure philosophy, no sensuality, no place nor power, no material success can for a moment give such inner satisfaction as the sense of living for good purpose.

If you cry "Forward," you must make plain in what direction to go.

Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose direction and begin to bend.

The world stands aside to let anyone pass who knows where he is going.

This is true joy of life-the being used for a purpose that is recognized by yourself as a right one, instead of being a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.

Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.

In everything one must consider the end.

A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

Life has a meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.

To have a reason to get up in the morning, it is necessary to possess a guiding principle. A belief of some kind. A bumper sticker, if you will.

The soul that has no established aim loses itself.

Life has a value only when it has something valuable as its object.

He might never really do what he said, but at least he had it in mind. He had somewhere to go.