Quotes About Purpose

I have always wanted to be somebody, but I see now I should have been more specific.

We couldn't possibly know where it would lead, but we knew it had to be done.

Lack of something to feel important about is almost the greatest tragedy a man may have.

It is only by following your deepest instinct that you can lead a rich life.

Our real duty is always found running in the direction of our worthiest desires.

The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

The intellect of man is forced to choose Perfection of the life or of the work.

God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.

Without duty, life is soft and boneless; it cannot hold itself together.

It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts.

At any given moment life is completely senseless. But viewed over a period, it seems to reveal itself as an organism existing in time, having a purpose, tending in a certain direction.

And whatever it is that keeps widening your heart, that's Mary, too, not only the power inside you but the love. And when you get down to it, Lily, that's the only purpose grand enough for a human life. Not just to love - but to persist in love.

I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.

A useless life is an early death.

Man, unlike the animal, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.

One thing I know; the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Listen to the clues. The next time you feel real joy, stop and think. Pay attention. Because joy is the universe's way of knocking on your mind's door. Hello in there. Is anyone home? Can I leave a message? Yes? Good I The message is that you are happy, and that means that you are in touch with your purpose.

Joy of life seems to me to arise from a sense of being where one belongs ... of being foursquare with the life we have chosen. All the discontented people I know are trying sedulously to be something they are not, to do something they cannot do.

When we align our thoughts, emotions, and actions with the highest part of ourselves, we are filled with enthusiasm, purpose, and meaning. . . . We are joyously and intimately engaged with our world. This is the experience of authentic power.

The entire sum of existence is the magic of being needed by just one person.

Let each man think himself an act of God. His mind a thought, his life a breath of God.

What is the use of running when you are on the wrong road?

Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture - and very much to our credit.

Here we stand between two eternities of darkness. What are we to do with this glory while it is still ours?