Quotes About Purpose

Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.

Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find his right road

Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.

Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road.

You have never done enough, so long as it is still possible that you have something of value to contribute

If God could make angels, why did he bother with men?

Ultimately, all human activities have as their goal the realization of happiness. Why, then, have we ended up producing the opposite result? Could the underlying cause be our failure to correctly understand the true nature of happiness?

Genuine happiness can only be achieved when we transform our way of life from the unthinking pursuit of pleasure to one committed to enriching our inner lives, when we focus on 'being more' rather than simply having more.

If you become deadlocked,return to the prime point.

Those who are aware of their mission are strong. Those who live for a mission are beautiful.

WHAT IS the fundamental purpose of education? Tsunesaburo Makiguchi declared, "The purpose of education is to enable children to live happy lives.

Men are all very well, and a good husband can be enormously useful, but women like us need something to do.

It's about purpose. About always coming back to being kind to another being instead of trying to get something from them.

I believe that the very purpose of our life is to seek happiness. That is clear. Whether one believes in religion or not, whether one believes in this religion or that religion, we all are seeking something better in life. So, I think, the very motion of our life is towards happinessÖ

The whole purpose of religion is to facilitate love and compassion, patience, tolerance, humility, and forgiveness.

In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision.

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.

The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, "I don't see the use of this; let us clear it away." To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: "If you don't see the use of it, I certainly won't let you clear it away. Go away and think. Then, when you can come back and tell me that you do see the use of it, I may allow you to destroy it." This

Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved. —WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN, AMERICAN POLITICIAN

You never achieve real success unless you like what you are doing.

You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.

Spend the second half of our lives working less about what we do and more about who we become.