Quotes About Purpose

Your priority in life should be a relationship with Christ, not an agenda for him.

In the end, it is impossible to have a great life unless it is a meaningful life. And it is very difficult to have a meaningful life without meaningful work. Perhaps, then, you might gain that rare tranquility that comes from knowing that you've had a hand in creating something of intrinsic excellence that makes a contribution. Indeed, you might even gain that deepest of all satisfactions: knowing that your short time here on this earth has been well spent, and that it mattered.

American I too am looking. I thought all my looking was done when I found the spices but then I saw you and now I no longer know. I want to tell him this. I want to believe he'll understand. In my head an echo like a song of stone. A Mistress must carve her own wanting out of her chest, must fill the hollow left behind with the needs of those she serves.

I hope to make acting my career for the rest of my life, if I can.

We forget that we are more than human beings on a spiritual journey; the fact is we're spiritual beings on a human journey.

We're strange creatures, we humans. At one level, we just want to eat, drink, play, and acquire more stuff. But life on the hedonic treadmill is ultimately dissatisfying. A beautiful remedy is to hop off it and instead begin pursuing an idea that's bigger than you are.

When it seems you have nothing at all to live for, death is not especially frightening.

Our privileges are not for our pleasure but rather for our purpose.

Life should be about purpose and meaning and cause and fulfilling our personal, God-given destinies.

Remember that if what you're fighting for matters, the obstacles don't.

If you focus any energy trying to please those you're not for, you will change how you do things and simultaneously stop thrilling those you are for!3

Our greatest fear should not be that we won't succeed, but rather that we will succeed at something that doesn't matter.

To succeed without meaning is not to succeed at all.

Happiness is the by-product of doing the right things in life. And the "right things" always involve serving and loving and caring and contributing to others.

Hunger, it should be noted, is different from ambition. Where ambition is largely about self-aggrandizement, hunger is more about service and significance.

We should strive to matter as much as we possibly can and guard ourselves against the inevitable temptations that would cheapen our accomplishments.

the greater good needs you to cut your guilt loose so you can get on with making a contribution. It needs you to forgive yourself.

Off the bike she was like a smoker without cigarettes, never sure what to do with her hands. As soon as she got off the bike, her heart was expected to perform all these baffling secondary functions like loving someone and feeling something and belonging somewhere - when all she'd ever trained it to do was pump blood.

I was hoping my life might make more sense from a great height.

I suppose all of us have to look at our job and ask how it now serves the cause I suppose one is lucky if a simple answer presents itself.

Everyone wants to believe in something that will make their mundane lives more bearable and their inevitable death less … final.

If your goal is to be the biggest movie star in the world, a 10-movie contract is gold. It was never my goal. Up until now, I made movies - and I have a nice house, a nice car. I'm fortunate, happy and grateful. Life is good.

Because I don't think God trusts just anybody with so much heartache. The world has not yet seen what God can do with a man who gives both halves of a broken heart to him. And I don't doubt that a man like that can change the world...or at least a little part of it.

There's not more power in a lot of people praying because the power comes from God and not the people. But what happens when many pray for the same thing is an opportunity for God's glory. Everything comes back to the glory of God. Everything in history, the purpose of our lives, is the glory of God. Every breath we take.