Quotes About Purpose

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. He has a work, a life-purpose. ... Get your happiness out of your work or you will never know what real happiness is. ... Even in the meanest sorts of labor, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work.

Man is happy only as he finds a work worth doing-and does it well.

To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given the chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.

The service we render others is the rent we pay for our room on earth.

Let our girls feel that we expect something more of them than that they merely look pretty and appear well in society. Teach them that there is a race with special needs which they and only they can help; that the world needs and is already asking for their trained and efficient forces.

Measure thy life by loss instead of gain, Not by the wine drunk, but by the wine poured forth.

If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, who am I for? And if not now, when?

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

The cultivated man, wise to know and bold to perform, is the end to which nature works.

Some one once said to me, 'Reverend Schuller, I hope you live to see all your dreams fulfilled.' I replied, T hope not, because if I live and all my dreams are fulfilled, I'm dead.' It's unfulfilled dreams that keep you alive.

Houses are built to live in, and not to look on.

Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness.

He is not only idle who does nothing, but he is idle who might be better employed.

To try to become happy is to try to build a machine with no other specifications than it shall run noiselessly.

I believe that I exist for the people. I'm just here to try to make a difference, and hopefully, the people listen and trust me enough to contribute.

What I like to do is try to make a difference with the work I do.

I think my motto is to always remain focused on what it is that you're trying to accomplish.

Remember that we are all human beings trying to do what we love to do.

The essence of strategy is that you must set limits on what you're trying to accomplish.

Every man must play the part of his ambition. If you are trying to be a successful man, you must play the part.

You've got to know what you want. This is central to acting on your intentions. When you know what you want, you realize that all there is left then is time management. You'll manage your time to achieve your goals because you clearly know what you're trying to achieve in your life.

I'm not a masochist. I'm simply into trying to enjoy what I do, because otherwise there's no point.

Well, I think the main message is there is more to your story. There is more than what happens between the crib and the grave, and that is what I am really trying to speak to, this idea that all of life is this life and that there is nothing more than what we see and experience right here on this earth.