Quotes About Purpose

As soon as you open your eyes in the morning, you can square away for a happy and successful day. It's the mood and the purpose at the inception of each day that are the important facts in charting your course for the day. We can always square away for a fresh start, no matter what the past has been.

This is the beginning of a new day. God has given me this day to use as I will. I can waste it or use it for good, but what I do today is important, because I am exchanging a day of my life for it! When tomorrow comes, this day will be gone forever, leaving in its place something that I have traded for it. I want it to be gain, and not loss; good, and not evil; success, and not failure; in order that I shall not regret the price I have paid for it.

Here hath been dawning another blue day: think, wilt thou let it slip useless away?

A man without a plan for the day is lost before he starts.

Do you know what the greatest test is? Do you still get excited about what you do when you get up in the morning?

What makes life dreary is want of motive.

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition.

Anxiety and conscience are a powerful pair of dynamos. Between them, they have ensured that I shall work hard, but they cannot ensure that one shall work at anything worthwhile.

One starts an action simply because one must do something.

To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life.

I hope I shall have ambition until the day I die.

Men perish because they cannot join the beginning with the end.

The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving.

If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking.

He turns not back who is bound to a star.

We are involved in a life that passes understanding: our highest business is our daily life.

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.

So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.

You have got to own your days and live them, each one of them, every one of them, or else the years go right by and none of them belong to you.

The most important thing in our lives is what we are doing now.

The days come and go like muffled and veiled figures sent from a distant friendly party, but they say nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them as silently away.

The Importance of Using Time Well How pleasant it is, at the end of the day, No follies to have to repent; But reflect on the past, and be able to say, That my time has been properly spent.

Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.