Quotes About Purpose

Whereas purpose provides the juice and the direction, principles define the parameters of action and the criteria for excellence of behavior.

The Value of Thinking About Why Here are just some of the benefits of asking why: It defines success. It creates decision-making criteria. It aligns resources. It motivates. It clarifies focus. It expands options.

If you're not sure why you're doing something, you can never do enough of it.

If you're not totally sure what your job is, it will always feel overwhelming.

Most often, the reason something is on your mind is that you want it to be different than it currently is, and yet: you haven't clarified exactly what the intended outcome is;

Una visión sin una tarea no es sino un sueño; una tarea sin una misión no es sino un trabajo penoso. La conjunción de una visión y una tarea es la esperanza del mundo. —INSCRIPCIÓN EN UNA IGLESIA DE SUSSEX, INGLATERRA, ALREDEDOR DE 1730.

What is the purpose of living if there are no perils to be encountered and overcome?

If your money is not helping you make your life better, then something is wrong. Chances are you're not making a connection between your values and the role obey plays in your life.

It's sad but true. Most people who just "go with the flow" wind up complaining about where they "floated." They go around saying life is not fair. Well, I disagree. Life is totally fair. You get what you go for. Go for nothing and you get nothing. Go for something and, even if you miss your main goal, you might still achieve a lot of good stuff along the way.

Most successful long-term relationships share similar traits. Having worked closely with hundreds of couples, I've noticed over the years what the really strong ones have in common. They recognize the vital importance of patience and compromise. They possess common values and goals. But perhaps most striking of all, the really solid couples, the ones who seem happiest and most fulfilled, all seem to have dedicated their lives together to some greater purpose.

Find something to believe in, Carter, other than your work. Because when you leave this life, you leave work behind. If that's all you have, then you have nothing. And eternity is a long time for nothing.

Well, honey, I'm a sixty-three-year-old fat woman with sore feet, high blood pressure, and the beginnings of diabetes. I know I don't have all that much time left, and I can either spend it moping and complaining about the things I never got to in life, or I can do something I love and help people along the way. I decided to keep plugging 'til I drop.

Everybody's got somewhere to go. Just takes some folks longer to figure out where to.

It only matters, Devine, to you. But I would say this: Life is a long enough journey without having only negative motivations to get your ass out of bed every day. What I'm offering you is, once again, something

I had to so something. Anything that would make me feel like I was accomplishing something. To make me feel that I was not a failure.

Whether it was on the battlefield or during an investigation, if you weren't moving forward then what good were you?

And yet a man with nothing to live for is a powerful man indeed. Perhaps

There is some good in this world, and it's worth fighting for." — J. R. R. Tolkien

But I think to really be part of something special, you have to find something special in yourself first.

That was the thing about life. You actually had to spend time living it. Or else what the hell did any of it really matter?

convinced that they wanted him to find

she glimpsed an aging man who had just lost everything and had no idea what he was supposed to be doing with the time he had left to live.

Money is just a means to an end. It shouldn't be the goal.

Then the question becomes what do we