Quotes About Purpose

He who would make serious use of his life must always act as though he had a long time to live and schedule his time as though he were about to die.

The highest value in life is found in the stewardship of time.

Wasted time means wasted lives.

All that time is lost which might be better employed.

Does't thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

Time wasted is a theft from God.

We all find time to do what we really want to do.

We shall never have more time. We have, and have always had, all the time there is. No object is served in waiting until next week or even until to-morrow. Keep going. ... Concentrate on something useful.

Make the most of today. Translate your good intentions into actual deeds.

Today is the day in which to express your noblest qualities of mind and heart, to do at least one worthy thing which you have long postponed.

Realize life as an end in itself. Functioning is all there is.

Follow your bliss. -Joseph Campbell Resolve to perform what you ought. Perform without fail what you resolve.

To accomplish our destiny ... we must cover before nightfall the distance assigned to each of us.

Study as if you were going to live forever; live as if you were going to die tomorrow.

Think that day lost whose descending sun, views from thy hand no noble action done.

The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them; a man may live long yet live very little.

Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or on being.

Fanaticism consists in redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.

There are but two roads that lead to an important goal and to the doing of great things: strength and perseverance. Strength is the lot of but a few privileged men; but austere perseverance, harsh and continuous, may be employed by the smallest of us and rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistibly greater with time.

Man does not simply exist, but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become in the next moment.

Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?

All this of Pot and Potter - Tell me then, Who is the Potter, pray, and who the Pot?

When we succeed in truly thanking God, we feel good at heart. The reason is that we have been created to give glory to God, now and for-evermore. And every time we do so, we feel that we are in harmony with His plans and purposes for our lives. Then we are truly in our element. That is why it is so blessed.

Do not forget that prayer is ordained for the purpose of glorifying the name of God. Therefore, whether you pray for big things or for little things, say to God, "If it will glorify Thy name, then grant my prayer and help me."