Quotes About Purpose

Your vision of where or who you want to be is your greatest asset.

If you have a vision, do something with it.

Fulfilling your mission is one thing; vision is another, and having a commitment to something leads you to do better work.

To come to be you must have a vision of Being, a Dream, a Purpose, a Principle. You will become what your vision is.

What I had to prove was that I had a dedication and a desire and a passion to do the work and everything else would fall in place because I have a vision that I want to portray and it did and I do it. I don't sell anything.

We each have a personal myth, a vision of who we really are and what we want. Health means that part of what you want is to give to others.

There's just no vision. You have no ground, no vision.

You've got to have a vision. You've got to have a message.

As long as people are living their truth or their vision, whether they're activists or not, that's the important thing.

The most important thing you will do is yet to be seen. For me, I found my important thing to do when I learned to do surgery on the eye, when I learned to restore a person's vision.

I'm not much of a visionary guy when it comes to figuring out how to go about my career.

unfinished business. For the next decade, Rita steered

Infant (hope)—trust versus mistrust Toddler (will)—autonomy versus shame Preschooler (purpose)—initiative versus guilt School-age child (competence)—industry versus inferiority Adolescent (fidelity)—identity versus role confusion Young adult (love)—intimacy versus isolation Middle-aged adult (care)—generativity versus stagnation

Infant (hope)—trust versus mistrust Toddler (will)—autonomy versus shame Preschooler (purpose)—initiative versus guilt School-age child (competence)—industry versus inferiority Adolescent (fidelity)—identity versus role confusion Young adult (love)—intimacy versus isolation Middle-aged adult (care)—generativity versus stagnation Older adult (wisdom)—integrity versus despair

ultimate concerns are death, isolation, freedom, and meaninglessness

a good number may have had momentary awakenings, done a little soul-searching, added more to their lists—and then neglected to tick things off. People tend to dream without doing, death remaining theoretical.

What is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?' I thought I knew what I planned to do, but now everything has changed.

You have a limited time to live, and your dream is to work at Trader Joe's?

The psychoanalyst Erich Fromm had made this point more than fifty years earlier: "Modern man thinks he loses something — time — when he does not do things quickly; yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains except kill it.

The four ultimate concerns are death, isolation, freedom, and meaninglessness

There's a difference between pain and suffering. You're going to have to feel pain -- everyone feels pain at times -- but you don't have to suffer so much. You're not choosing the pain, but you're choosing the suffering. ... If I'm clinging to the suffering so tightly, I must be getting something out of it. It must be serving some purpose for me.

do with the time he gains except kill it." Fromm was right;

she didn't want to just add things to her bucket list; she wanted to cross things off too. "You have to pare it down," she said, "or else it's just a useless exercise in what could have been.

It's important to disrupt the depressive state with action, to create social connections and find a daily purpose, a compelling reason to get out of bed in the morning.