Quotes About Purpose

I think I have a gift, but I haven't really opened that gift yet and given it to myself.

I remember feeling a little guilty every time I opened a Chipotle. I felt guilty because I wasn't following my true passion. But that eventually went away. And I realized that this is my calling.

Basketball did not save my life. God saved my life. It's not basketball. But God saved my life because he blessed me through basketball. He opened the door from basketball.

My job on Earth, the reason why Kirk is created, is to make God famous. I just want God to be well-known. And I think it's created a dialogue - I think it's opened up conversation, and people have started to talk about what religion is to them.

Our mission to space had to serve a bigger purpose, which is why St. Jude is such a big part of this. It can't simply just be about opening the door to space for everyday people.

There's a destiny for everybody. The world is set up - as foreign as that can be to some people who are very materialistic - but there is a force in this world, once we step into it, that opens doors for us, that gives us a sense of purpose and the greatest life there is, in my view.

I admire people who operate from a place of love and who have gone through the rigorous process of finding and articulating their purpose, whatever it may be.

Not everything has to be a money-making operation. You do things sometimes because it makes you feel good.

Naming rights are a seductive philanthropic inducement, yet more anonymous operational support may better advance the charitable purpose.

To become a work of art is the object of living.

No theory of life seemed to him to be of any importance compared with life itself

The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action.

The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for. People people have forgotten the highest of all duties, the duty that one owes to oneself.

I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that all beautiful things are made by those who strive to make something useful.

So much had been surrendered! And to such little purpose! There had been mad wilful rejections, monstrous forms of self-torture and self-denial, whose origin was fear and whose result was a degradation infinitely more terrible than that fancied degradation from which, in their ignorance, they had sought to escape (...)

As he looked back upon man moving through History, he was haunted by a feeling of loss. So much had been surrendered! and to such little purpose!...Hedonism... was to teach man to concentrate himself upon the moments of a life that is but itself a moment.

Where your life leads you, you must go

I don't want to earn a living, I want to live.

Looking good and dressing well is a necessity. Having a purpose in life is not.

Lo menos frecuente en este mundo es vivir. La mayoría de la gente existe, eso es todo.

The supreme object of life is to live. Few people live. It is true life only to realize one's own perfection, to make one's every dream a reality.

It is awfully hard work doing nothing.  However, I don't mind hard work where there is no definite object of any kind.

To realise one's nature perfectly—that is what each of us is here for.

Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but molds it to its purpose.