Quotes About Purpose

Life has got to be lived-that's all that there is to it.

There is more to life than just existing and having a pleasant time.

It's what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around.

You have much more power when you are working for the right thing than when you are working for the wrong thing.

Deliberately to pursue happiness is not the surest way of achieving it. Seek it for its own sake and I doubt whether you will find it.

Happiness is something you get as a by-product in the process of making something else.

Happiness is not something you get, but something you do.

Happiness is action.

Happiness walks on busy feet.

This is true joy of life-being used for a purpose that is recognized by yourself as a mighty 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.

Seek happiness for its own sake, and you will not find it; seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.

True happiness ... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

The happiest excitement in life is to be convinced that one is fighting for all one is worth on behalf of some clearly seen and deeply felt good.

The secret of living is to find ... the pivot of a concept on which you can make your stand.

Happy [is] the man who knows his duties!

The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.

Having a goal is a state of happiness.

What would life be without art? Science prolongs life. To consist of what-eating, drinking, and sleeping? What is the good of living longer if it is only a matter of satisfying the requirements that sustain life? All this is nothing without the charm of art.

We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest, and our attention to something besides ourselves.

Happiness ... loves to see men work. She loves sweat, weariness, self-sacrifice. She will not be found in the palaces, but lurking in cornfields and factories, and hovering over littered desks.

There is work that is work and there is play that is play; there is play that is work and work that is play. And in only one of these lie happiness.

There is certainly no greater happiness than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed, to trace our own progress in existence by such tokens as excite neither shame nor sorrow.