Quotes About Purpose

If you don't know what you want,' the doorman said, 'you end up with a lot you don't.

The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.

What I am is a recall campaign coordinator, I tell the single-serving friend sitting next to me, but I'm working toward a career as a dishwasher.

love is a mission a man goes on every day. A mission a man never completes until death.

love is a mission a man goes on every day. A mission a man never completes until death. In that way, true love is a suicide mission.

We're here to change the world, not participate in its tedium.

I can't choose any one thing. Why do I have to live only one life and be resigned to doing one thing?

At heart, what we give to the world is our service, and what we give to ourselves is our purpose.

Our service and our purpose must be two circles perfectly overlapping. What we give to the world must be the work that defines us. Meaning we give ourselves to the world to make it better. We don't just work to work. But we don't just let our destiny die on the vine.

Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.

Wat kan in de bezigheden der mensen van belang lijken voor een man die de eeuwigheid voor ogen houdt en zich bewust is van de uitgestrektheid van het universum?

Romans 8:28: We are assured and know that [God being a partner in their labor] all things work together and are [fitting into a plan] for good to and for those who love God and are called according to [His] design and purpose. AMP

There is a principle that is often painful to young intercessors who are full of zeal: God is not in a hurry. He takes the time He needs to build His character in us. He will patiently and methodically clean up our wicked hearts so He can allow us to pray His purposes into human affairs. Most of us want everything to happen immediately, but God loves to marinate.

Dreams shouldn't be about what you can buy--they should be about what mark you leave in the world.

Stuff comes and stuff goes and the only thing that matters in the end is who you are inside, what you do and what make it leaves in the world.

A life of usefulness, literature and religion, was not by any means a life of event.

An inchoate mass of ambition, Julius knew that he had soon, soon to find something to be ambitious for; otherwise, he risked terminal resentment, from which there was no return.

You could control what you did, if you wanted to....Was it efficient? Was it productive? ...So many people didn't bother -- a kind of stupidity...a lack of vision, or purpose. Anyone who said they just woke up and found themselves in the place they'd always wanted to be was lying; and anyone who believed such a person was a fool. It was all a matter of will.

I want to make a difference. But get a job? I worry that will make the ordinary, like everybody else.

Life is about deciding what matters. It's about the fantasy that determines the reality.

An inchoate ball of ambition, Julius knew that he had soon, soon, to find something to be ambitious for; otherwise he risked terminal resentment, from which there was no return.

We're completely invisible. I thought it wasn't true, or not true of me, but I've learned I am no different at all. The question now is how to work it, how to use that invisibility, to make it burn.

Nothing in this world is a coincidence. Everything is Hitsuzen. *Hitsuzen meaning inevitability, destiny, or fate, as being the driving force in the world

Don't fret. We'll just have to find something else you're good at besides killing people.