Quotes About Purpose

I'm not so in love with material things that I'll do anything for money. That allows me the luxury of doing things of value.

The idea of metanoia returns again and again in my life. The purpose of life is to see what you do when challenges come your way, and the value in that experience is seeing how you handle those challenges.

It became clear to me that our value as people is not in our stock portfolios and bank accounts but in the legacies we leave behind.

The Kennedy Center Honors reflects our humanity and higher purpose. We are a great nation, in part, because we value culture.

I stopped asking myself questions like what the value of my stock was and started asking more fundamental questions of life and death.

We must never forget the value of work because without it people are denied a sense of dignity and of community.

I pass on any opportunity I see that I can't add value on.

If guys try to make a bigger company for the sake of size, they don't create value in most cases.

It is a mistake for women to think that life begins only with marriage. A woman can and must have an identity and feel useful, valued, and needed whether she is single or married. She must feel that she can do something for someone else that no one else ever born can do.

It is hard to speak the truth about valued national institutions. But when they are not fit for purpose, we must speak out.

We have to rediscover the eternal values and then live them out.

There is a fundamental question we all have to face. How are we to live our lives; by what principles and moral values will we be guided and inspired?

Somehow, we have come to the erroneous belief that we are all but flesh, blood, and bones, and that's all. So we direct our values to material things.

I know what I want and know my values, and therefore, it's easy to take hard choices when you know what the ambitions are and what values you stand for, so it's all about staying true to yourself, be yourself.

Governed the tides by the distant moon? Who put the "wonder" within my breast? Set off the "joy bells" within my soul? Who gave a reason to even exist? Made earth a "mission" and heaven a "goal"? Mere chance occurrence? Complete mystery? Of course there's a reason, if only we prod. Nature demands it—and so does my heart. There's only one Answer. Only one God!

some dreams are meant to be handed over to God. To be remolded and redirected in keeping with his will. Sometimes our plans do not fit with the plans of God.

To let go of even life, if need be, and accept his calling.

You are not asking me. I am asking you. Our lives are in God's hands now. Perhaps he has plans, a mission for us to fulfill. Instead of a soldier of Rome, you might now be a messenger of God. But if not, then I still choose to be your wife, for whatever time he allows us to have.

It's true that things happen in life that seem wrong and are painful, but it isn't because God likes to see us suffer. He wants to see us grow. He wants us to love Him, to trust Him.

It's one thing to think that your job has a purpose, and it's another to meet a specific person who cares, appreciates, and values what you do," Grant told me. "The call center people got a new sense of their worth—not only on the job but as individuals.

we hunger for the restoration of hope and common sense and purpose.

I say human beings have purposeful brains beyond acting like flocks of scared pigeons.

That's why the question what men are good for continues to be debated within our societies, as well as between anthropologists

Everything comes to an end. A good bottle of wine, a summer's day, a long-running sitcom, one's life, and eventually our species. The question for many of us is not that everything will come to an end but when. And can we do anything vaguely useful until it does?