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Quotes About Purpose

Never underestimate the vital importance of finding early in life the work that for you is play.
~ Ken Robinson
Believe in something big. Your life is worth a noble motive.
~ Walter Inglis Anderson
When people can see which direction the leaders are going in it becomes easier to motivate them.
~ Lakshmi Mittal
Question for God every morning: What is the main event today? What do you want me to focus on today?
~ John C. Maxwell
We were all born to "be somebody," look deep inside your heart to find out who and what you are supposed to be.
~ Robert Cheeke
People will summarize your life in one sentence - Pick it now.
~ John C. Maxwell
Use all your hidden forces. Do not miss The purpose of this life, and do not wait For circumstance to mould or change your fate.
~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
What good is inspiration if it's not backed up by action?
~ Tony Robbins
When a great man has some one object in view to be achieved in a given time, it may be absolutely necessary for him to walk out of all the common roads.
~ Edmund Burke
A person with a clear purpose will make progress, even on the roughest road. A person with no purpose will make no progress, even on the smoothest road.
~ Thomas Carlyle
Purpose directs passion and passion ignites purpose.
~ Rhonda Britten
Life is meant for living.. I know that sounds simplistic, but how many days do you let slip by without really doing something, accomplishing something, making a life change, a lifestyle change?
~ Ivana Trump
Life is a mission, not a career.
~ Stephen Covey
What leads to unhappiness is making pleasure the chief aim.
~ William Shenstone
Every man has a vocation to be someone: but he must understand clearly that in order to fulfill this vocation he can only be one person: himself.
~ Thomas Merton
Goals are discovered, not made.
~ Richard J. Foster
It is what I was born for - to look, to listen, to lose myself inside this soft world - to instruct myself over and over.
~ Mary Oliver
In the long run, we only hit what we aim at.
~ Henry David Thoreau
In judging others a man laboreth in vain; he often erreth, and easily falleth into sin; but in judging and examining himself he always laboreth to good purpose.
~ Thomas a Kempis
My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions.
~ Thomas A. Edison
A vow is fixed and unalterable determination to do a thing, when such a determination is related to something noble which can only uplift the man who makes the resolve.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Getting distracted by trifles is the easiest thing in the world… Focus on your main duty
~ Epictetus
The path of least resistance leads to a life of no fulfillment.
~ Hal Elrod