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Quotes About Purpose

Do not love leisure. Waste not a minute. Be bold. Realize the Truth, here and now!
~ Swami Sivananda
Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
~ Swami Sivananda
The very reason for nature's existence is for the education of the soul.
~ Swami Vivekananda
By doing well the duty which is nearest to us, the duty which is in our hands, we make ourselves stronger
~ Swami Vivekananda
A few heart-whole, sincere, and energetic men and women can do more in a year than a mob in a century.
~ Swami Vivekananda
A tremendous stream is flowing toward the ocean, carrying us all along with it; and though like straws and scraps of paper we may at times float aimlessly about, in the long run we are sure to join the Ocean of Life and Bliss.
~ Swami Vivekananda
He works for work's sake. "Work for work's sake. Worship for worship's sake.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Work for work's sake. There are some who are really the salt of the earth in every country and who work for work's sake, who do not care for name, or fame, or even to go to heaven.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Only what is done as duty for duty's sake ... can scatter the bondage of Karma
~ Swami Vivekananda
The only way to rise is by doing the duty next to us, and thus gathering strength go on until we reach the highest state.
~ Swami Vivekananda
nor freedom, nor gods, nor work, nor anything.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Work for work's sake. Worship for worship's sake. Do good because it is good to do good. Ask no more.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else - very rarely to those who say to themselves, 'Go to, now, let us be a celebrated individual!'.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
What I would say to anyone who wants to be a model is, have something else. This shouldn't be your be-all and end-all in life: there are so many other amazing things to be done in the world. I also think that the industry really celebrates a woman who does something else. So keep at it, but always have something else.
~ Adwoa Aboah
I had these false ambitions - marketing and MBA. I didn't do very badly at it, but I realised my calling was something else.
~ Kay Kay Menon
Personally, when I'm not working, I like to do as many things outside of the industry as I can - other things that make me happy. You kind of need to be grounded in something else besides just being an actor.
~ Liam Hemsworth
Retiring is one thing. Being retired is something else altogether.
~ Mike Wallace
I don't do one show and wish I was doing something else.
~ Drew Carey
You know, my point in being an actor is to get people to believe that this is not about me, but something else.
~ Jim Caviezel
There had to be something else out there that would help me change. I wanted to live.
~ John Sweeney
Each child brings so much joy and hope into the world, and that is reason enough for being here. As you grow older, you will contribute something else to this world, and only you can discover what that is.
~ Sharon Creech
You have to live in order to have something to write about - you get caught up in moviemaking and celebrities and money, and it's very intoxicating, but it doesn't give you what you need as a writer. You have to do something else for that.
~ John Patrick Shanley
Some fighters know when to stop on their own and go on to something else, and then some fighters have nothing to go back to after they are finished. Some fighters still have the burning fire and feel that they just need to try one more time. Few can do it.
~ Marvin Hagler
I shouldn't even be here, so if I'm here, I better do something good.
~ Tammy Duckworth