Quotes About Purpose

Do what you love to do and give it your very best. Whether it's business or baseball, or the theater, or any field. If you don't love what you're doing and you can't give it your best, get out of it. Life is too short. You'll be an old man before you know it.

Life is short, so I'm knowing exactly where I'm putting my time. I don't want to do things that I don't have to do.

Life is short, and therefore, one thing being certain, death, let us take up a great ideal, and give up the whole life to it. For what is the value of life, this vegetating little low life of man? Subordinating it to one high ideal is the only value that life has.

If you want something, don't wish for it. Life is too short to wait.

Your life is your own. You mold it. You make it. All anyone can do is to point out ways and means which have been helpful to others. Perhaps they will serve as suggestions to stimulate your own thinking until you know what it is that will fulfill you, will help you to find out what you want to do with your life.

A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.

Once you know what direction to take, finding the path to it becomes easy.

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.

Life is what you make it…You are what your life makes you…So spend time in making your life.

I don't want to earn my living; I want to live.

Life is short, no use wasting it with bad people.

I've dealt with losing close ones before, and I've been around friends that have lost friends at a young age. I think it's important to think about – not necessarily death, but about life and think about where you're going and how you want to be remembered and the legacy you want to leave.

How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose we know not, though sometimes sense it. But we know from daily life that we exist for other people first of all for whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff that life is made of.

"Did you ever walk into a room and forget why you walked in? I think that is how dogs spend their lives."

Soulmates are made not found.

"Life isn't about finding yourself. It's about creating yourself."

Once something has outlived its usefulness in one area of life, its purpose for being in existence is no longer the same. The leaf that captures a stream of sunlight, and then transfers its energy to the tree, serves one purpose in the spring and summer, and another completely different one through the fall and winter.

There are three things you must do in order to become wealthy. You must have the right mindset, discover your purpose in life, and find a business that expresses that purpose.

You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.

Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard, then succeed on purpose.

No matter how successful you are in your career, you must always remember that we are here to live. If you keep yourself busy working, you will surely regret it.

Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not.

The only reason a warrior is alive is to fight, and the only reason a warrior fights is to win. Otherwise, why be a warrior? It is easier to count beads.