Quotes About Purpose

When I stop the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing.

I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community, and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatsoever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die; for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no "brief candle" for me. It is a sort of splendid torch, which I have got hold of for the moment; and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

...if you have a purpose in which you can believe, there's no end to the amount of things you can accomplish.

A struggle to do something more than exist is the sign of human life — the mission of the human soul.

And nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all.

Never confuse movement with action.

Let us recognize that our wings are to frivol with. The goal of all civilization, all religious thought, and all that sort of thing is simply to have a Good Time. But man gets so solemn over the process that he forgets the end.

Candy Day... That was issued for the purpose of sweetening this embittered world, was it?

When your life flashes before your eyes, make sure you've got plenty to watch.

You make a living by what you get, but you make a life by what you give.

God uses suffering as a whetstone, to make men sharp with.

Hitch your wagon to a star.

It's better to fight for something than against something.

I intentionally abandoned the hard stuff early on because not only do I think it's useless, I think it's a distraction.

When you're surrounded by people who share a passionate commitment around a common purpose, anything is possible.

I think music is the greatest art form that exists, and I think people listen to music for different reasons, and it serves different purposes. Some of it is background music, and some of it is things that might affect a person's day, if not their life, or change an attitude. The best songs are the ones that make you feel something.

I've always had that attitude that things happen for a reason.

You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.

Jesus didn't come to make us Christian. Jesus came to make us fully human.

It is imperative that the past of the pilgrims' progress be intentionally carried forward into the present as we work into our future. Without it we cannot know who we are, why we are here, or where we can go. Without a common past to live out of we become aimless and wandering individuals instead of a pilgrim people.

To maximize return on investment is an inadequate statement of purpose. It fails to accomplish the paramount responsibility of leadership—to provide meaning and inspiration to those who are expected to follow. The mass of people within our corporations are not primarily motivated by maximizing private gain. Many firms are structured as if they were….

Business must be run at a profit…, else it will die. But when any one attempts to run a business solely for profit and thinks not at all of the service to the community, then also the business must die, for it no longer has a reason for existence.

A strong life force can be seen in physical vitality, courage, competent judgment, self-mastery, sexual vigor, and the realization of each person's unique talents and purpose in life. To maintain a powerful life force, forget yourself, forget about living and dying, and bring your full attention into this moment.

Wanting to be is not the same as choosing to be