Quotes About Purpose

May God ... let me strive for attainable things.

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

Accept the place the divine providence has found for you.

It is not easy to be sure that being yourself is worth the trouble, but [we do know] it is our sacred duty.

If I am not for myself, who is for me? And if I am only for myself, what am I? And if not now, when?

Search and you will find that at the base and birth of every great business organization was an enthusiast, a man consumed with earnestness of purpose, with confidence in his powers, with faith in the worthwhileness of his endeavors.

The destiny of man is in his own soul.

Learn to get in touch with silence within yourself and know that everything in life has a purpose.

I would not sit waiting for some value tomorrow, nor for something to happen. One could wait a lifetime. ... I would make something happen.

How could the drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Unhurt people are not much good in the world.

When I use the word spirituality, I don't necessarily mean religion; I mean whatever it is that helps you feel connected to something that is larger than yourself.

Believe in something larger than yourself.

All my life I have risen regularly at four o'clock and have gone into the woods and talked to God. There He gives me my orders for the day.

The strength of a man consists in finding out the way in which God is going, and going in that way too.

The soul is awakened through service.

The purpose of life on earth is that the soul should grow - So Growl By doing what is right.

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

The measure of achievement is not winning awards. It's doing something that you appreciate, something you believe is worthwhile. I think of my strawberry souffle. I did that at least twenty-eight times before I finally conquered it.

Will you be satisfied with the fruit of your life's work? Will the efforts you are making now bring you satisfaction when the things of time are receding, and eternity looms ahead?

On earth we have nothing to do with success or results, but only with being true to God, and for God. Defeat in doing right is nevertheless victory.

Different people have different duties assigned to them by Nature; Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this, the other that. Each bird must sing with his own throat.

It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.