Quotes About Purpose

We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives. We must take charge of our own destinies, design a life of substance, and truly begin to live our dreams.

Then you are not pursuing your goal in life, when you are unfulfilled and just cruising along unconsciously, I believe that you are literally committing spiritual suicide.

Mark Twain stated, "The two most important days in your life are the day you were born, and the day you realize why you were born.

Book of Life says, "Where your heart is, there your treasure is also."3

We should be ashamed to die until we've made some major contribution to human kind.

In his profession, Wright had seen horror stacked on horror, plenty of evidence that there was no shortage of hell right here on earth. As to what had kept him sane in the face of all that he had witnessed, it was a simple sense of purpose. "It is that simple, John," Wright said. "There is evil. And there is good.

If you think about all the things you've done in your life and the real, honest-to-God truth as to why you did them, chances are you'll feel kinda sad too.

I think I turned to writing really just to wake up in the morning and be a musician and to have something to do, and feel like a musician every day even if I wasn't working.

What does one dream of when the dream has been achieved?

Becoming a gran exhilarated me with a new purpose. The change was so big & granular & unexpected, I wanted to understand it. .,.. Does it happen this way to all grandmothers?

Life isn't about finding you're purpose. It's about going out and creating a purpose to be remembered by.

The most beautiful women I've ever observed are those that have exchanged a self-focused life for a Christ-focused one. They are confident, but not in themselves. Instead of self-confidence, they radiate with Christ-confidence.

We are concentrates, charged with the task in life of avoiding dilution.

After all, being alive is my top priority...Leslie from Love & Hugs, Leslie

From Christ's perspective, success isn't measured by how much we do, how much we earn, or how much we have, but by how well we love and what kind of person we're becoming in the midst of life's activities.

There are times you must risk unraveling the life you have in order to create the life God wants for you.

Our emotions always serve a purpose, like the warning lights on a car dashboard. Ignoring them doesn't make them go away, and often ignoring our feelings only makes the problem worse.

The gifts God bestows are not from us, nor are they for us so that we can feel good about ourselves. They are to be used to benefit others and glorify him (1 Peter 4:10).

I WANT YOU TO KNOW that you were made to be happy.

Jesus modeled to us how we are to relate to God. When we become that mindful of our position, our purpose, and our neediness, we, too, will humble ourselves.

Jesus loves us too much to leave us thinking or believing that a rich and meaningful life is found in anything other than loving and serving him.

Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.

If I do not know the purpose for which human life was designed, I have no basis for saying that any kind of human life-style is good or bad.

Opinions about how it ought to function can only be personal opinions, and any assertion that the purpose for which human life exists has in fact been revealed by the One whose purpose it is, is treated as unacceptable dogmatism.