Quotes About Purpose

If you stumble at mere believability, what are you living for?

To look out with idle hope is tantamount to dreaming one's life away.

What of God's silence? I think it over. I add: An intellect confounded yet a trusting sense of presence and of ultimate purpose.

What is the purpose of reason, Richard Parker? Is it no more than to shine at practicalities - the getting of food, clothing and shelter? Why can't reason give greater answers? Why can we throw a question further than we can pull in an answer? Why such a vast net of there's so little fish to catch?

Without a driver this bus is lost.

Any writer will be happy and good only if they know what they're doing and why they're doing it.

It was Richard Parker who calmed me down. It is the irony of this story that the one who scared me witless to start with was the very same who brought me peace, purpose, I dare say even wholeness.

It is the irony of this story that the one who scared me witless to start with was the very same who brought me peace, purpose, I dare say even wholeness.

An intellect confounded yet a trusting sense of presence and of ultimate purpose.

Remember, passion and purpose go handinhand.

I don't think consensus-building politics is what I'm meant to be doing.

The God who walks the paths of history through the pages of the Bible pins a mission statement to every signpost on the way.

The end comes to all of us...but the end comes quicker to those who do not live their lives as they choose. If your life is not your own, then in what way is it living?

It's not a matter of becoming a superstar. Fame and money aren't the purpose of all this. No actor's going to say, 'I don't want to be famous.' But the main purpose for doing what I'm doing is the passion in the work.

Most women are pragmatists who have allowed extremists on the left and right to manipulate the family issue for their own purposes.

Even the radicalism of the sixties served, for many of those who embraced it for personal rather than political reasons, not as a substitute religion but as a form of therapy. Radical politics filled empty lives, provided a sense of meaning and purpose.

You ran to eat and to avoid being eaten; you ran to find a mate and impress her, and with her you ran off to start a new life together. You had to love running, or you wouldn't live to love anything else…We were born to run; we were born because we run

You don't start with today and aim toward your goal. You start with the goal, and aim back toward today. Do it like that, and you'll always find a way.

E atat de simplu. Trebuie doar sa-ti misti picioarele. Pentru ca, daca nu intelegi ca te-ai nascut pentru a alerga, nu-ti negi doar istoria, iti negi propria fiinta.

Because if you don't think you were born to run, you're not only denying history. You're denying who you are.

So simple," he said. "Just move your legs. Because if you don't think you were born to run, you're not only denying history. You're denying who you are.

Just move your legs. Because if you don't think you were born to run, you're not only denying history. You're denying who you are.

if you don't think you were born to run, you're not only denying history. You're denying who you are.

God made man merely to hear some praise of what he'd done on those Five Days.