Quotes About Purpose

It is not how busy you are, but why you are busy — the bee is praised, the mosquito is swatted.

Nursing is not for everyone. It takes a very strong, intelligent, and compassionate person to take on the ills of the world with passion and purpose and work to maintain the health and well-being of the planet. No wonder we're exhausted at the end of the day!

Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go do it, because what the world needs is people who have come alive.

What we are really living for is the experience of life, both the pain and the pleasure. The world is a match for us. We are a match for the world.

I yearn to fall asleep to the rose-scented burning-pink smoke and dreamy aromas of soul-poetry, so that I wake to a poem-tinted dawn and morning's sweet fragrance lays out my new day's path in flowers of purpose and joy.

The man who gets on his knees has not learned the right use of his legs.

All natural birth has a purpose and a plan; who would think of tearing open the chrysalis as the butterfly is emerging? Who would break the shell to pull the chick out?

When you walk in purpose, you collide with destiny.

We all possess the thunder of pure fury and the calm breeze of tranquility. If it wasn't for tomorrow, how much would we get done today? Whatever your purpose... embrace it completely. Get lost in the clouds every now and then so you never lose sight of God's wonder.

Don't trade your life for just an empty hourglass.

When he walks he casts a shadow of purpose.

William Shakespeare, Cymbeline

If wishes would prevail with me, My purpose should not fail with me...

Thy oath remember; thou hast sworn to do't... Be a soldier to thy purpose.

William Shakespeare, King Lear

...if thou hast that in thee indeed, which I have greater reason to believe now than ever, I mean purpose, courage and valour, this night show it...

I'm quitting to pursue my dream of not working here.

Retire? That's ridiculous. What does it for you is to have something to get up for in the morning. Now, they say, you should retire at 70. When I was 70, I still had pimples.

At a certain point, some of us just sit down and watch the rest of our lives go by. Don't let it happen to you!

We're all on different paths, but action is hard work and you must drive your own soul.

You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage — pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically — to say "no" to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger "yes" burning inside.

The goal of life: simple but not empty.

The antidote to exhaustion may not be rest but wholeheartedness... we are typically exhausted because we are not doing our TRUE work.

Part of the reason why we feel these transitions so keenly is that we know that our lives matter.