Quotes About Purpose

we only move toward what moves us.

Pois a vida é curta demais para ser pequena.

We can't all be captains; we've got to be crew. There's something for all of us here. There's big work to do and there's lesser to do and the task we must do is the near. If you can't be a highway, then just be a trail, if you can't be the sun, be a star; it isn't by the size that you win or you fail, be the best of whatever you are!

Without purpose, the days would have ended, as such days always end, in disintegration.

Ocúpese. La persona preocupada debe perderse en la acción si no quiere marchitarse en la desesperación.

Passarei por este caminho apenas uma vez. Por isso, se existe qualquer bem ou qualquer gesto de bondade que eu possa fazer em benefício de qualquer ser humano, que eu faça agora. Que eu não adie ou deixe de lado, pois não passarei aqui novamente.

For "the great aim of education," said Herbert Spencer, the English sociologist and philosopher, "is not knowledge but action.

debo perderme en la acción, si no quiero marchitarme en la desesperación".

El secreto de ser desdichado estriba en tener ocios para pensar si se es feliz o no".

Here we are on this earth, with only a few more decades to live, and we lose many irreplaceable hours brooding over grievances that, in a year's time, will be forgotten by us and by everybody. No, let us devote our life to worth-while actions and feelings, to great thoughts, real affections and enduring undertakings. For life is too short to be little.

el gran objetivo de la educación —dijo Herbert Spencer— no es el conocimiento, sino la acción".

Man is not made to understand life, but to live it.

His name was Sir William Osler. Here are the twenty-one words that he read in the spring of 1871—twenty-one words from Thomas Carlyle that helped him lead a life free from worry: "Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Nothing could be worse, Thoreau wrote, than to come to the end of life and "discover that I had not lived.

We were built to count, as water is made to run downhill. We are placed in a specific context to count in ways no one else does. That is our destiny.

He said, "The main thing that you bring the church is the person that you become, and that's what everybody will see; that's what will get reproduced; that's what people will believe. Arrange your life so that you are experiencing deep contentment, joy and confidence in your everyday life with God.

We are becoming who we will be—forever.

we fail to be disciples only because we do not decide to be. We do not intend to be disciples. It is the power of the decision and the intention over our life that is missing. We should apprentice ourselves to Jesus in a solemn moment, and we should let those around us know that we have done so.

Generally speaking we are in God's will whenever we are leading the kind of life he wants for us. And that leaves a lot of room for initiative on our part, which is essential: our individual initiatives are central to his will for us.

Whatever our position in life, if our lives and works are to be of the kingdom of God, we must not have human approval as a primary or even major aim. We must lovingly allow people to think whatever they will. We may, if it seems right, occasionally try to help them understand us and appreciate what we are doing. That could be an act of love. But in any case we can only serve them by serving the Lord only.

The best physical, chemical, and other scientific knowledge will not tell us what to do and who to be.

They spend their whole earthly existence trying to save, enhance, and enrich their lives. And what happens? They lose the most important things in their life: an intimate relationship with God and with others.

First, we must learn from him the reason why we live and why we do the things we do.

What is his load? It is to bring the reign of God into ordinary human life. That is why he came the way he did, lived the way he did and died the way he did. In the midst of a world of ordinary human life he was pulling the load of bringing the kingdom of God into ordinary human life. That was his message. And his message was to everyone.