Quotes About Purpose

If leadership requires a fired-up sense of purpose and imagination, it also demands a profound connection to the society to be led.

I think you can judge from somebody's actions a kind of a stability and sense of purpose perhaps created by strong religious roots. I mean, there's a certain patience, a certain discipline, I think, that religion helps you achieve.

The momentum of freedom in our world is unmistakable - and it is not carried forward by our power alone. We can trust in that greater power Who guides the unfolding of the years. And in all that is to come, we can know that His purposes are just and true.

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

One of the things that has helped me as much as any other, is not how long I am going to live, but how much I can do while living.

We each have a personal myth, a vision of who we really are and what we want. Health means that part of what you want is to give to others.

We are immortal until our work on earth is done.

If God had really intended men to fly, he'd make it easier to get to the airport.

To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problems of contentment.

Faith is not a thing which one loses, we merely cease to shape our lives by it.

No se puede decir más que con espanto el número de hombres que nacen, viven y mueren sin haber usado ni una sola vez su alma

Am I where Our Lord would have me be? Twenty times a day I ask this question. For the Master whom we serve not only judges our life but shares it, takes it upon Himself. It would be far easier to satisfy a geometrical and moralistic God.

Well, they will keep on saying: 'Why worry?' But what else are we here for, in heaven's name?

When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isnt a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

The myths are not descriptions of things but expressions of a determination to act

The days you work are the best days.

Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest.

I hope that, in a small way, I am interesting people in animal life and in its conservation. If I accomplish this I will consider that I have achieved something worth while. And if I can, later on, help even slightly towards preventing an animal from becoming extinct, I will be content.

rise to a higher level of freedom. We are not being called to run away from danger but toward safety.

Thou hast made us for Thyself, and our hearts are restless until they rest in Thee."11

If they want to kill us so desperately, then surely we are worthwhile, valid, of importance to the world.

I withdrew a small card from the pouch. The front of it was filled with lines of elegant, hand-lettered script. "What does it say?" Dad asked, leaning forward. "The Four Remembers of Life," I read. "Number one: Remember, you are unique. Number two: Remember, there is purpose to your life. Number three: Remember you are free to choose what you are and what you become. And number four: Remember, you are not alone.

Here we are, alive, and you and I will have to make it what we can.

I do not propose to go on as I have been, feeding on the gall of my own grief. For you grieve, and yet you live, and are useful, and bring life to others.