Quotes About Purpose

An unintentional life accepts everything and does nothing. An intentional life embraces only the things that will add to the mission of significance.

Dreams often come one size too big so that we can grow into them.

Great minds have purposes; others have wishes. Little minds are subdued by misfortunes; but great minds rise above them.

Action is what converts human dreams into significance.

If you want to reach your potential and become the person you were created to be, you must do much more than just experience life and hope that you learn what you need along the way. You must go out of your way to seize growth opportunities as if your future depended on it.

Poet Ralph Waldo Emerson said, "The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

If a man hasn't discovered something he will die for, he isn't fit to live." —Martin Luther King Jr.

See the big picture. Your place on the team makes sense only in the context of the big picture. If your only motivation for finding your niche is personal gain, your poor motives may prevent you from discovering what you desire.

When you live each day with intentionality, there's almost no limit to what you can do. You can transform yourself, your family, your community, and your nation. When enough people do that, they can change the world. When you intentionally use your everyday life to bring about positive change in the lives of others, you begin to live a life that matters.

Success is . . . knowing your purpose in life, growing to reach your maximum potential, and sowing seeds that benefit others.

when you find yourself, you find your audience.

Each day is an unrepeatable miracle. Today will never happen again, so we must make it count.

Nothing much happens without a dream. For something really great to happen, it takes a really great dream.

If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they may have planned for you? Not much." —JIM ROHN

You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have really lived, are the moments when you have done things in a spirit of love.

When you know your purpose and priorities and you have ordered your day, week, or year according to them, you have a clarity of thought that strengthens everything you do.

Si estás trabajando en algo emocionante que realmente te importa, nadie tiene que empujarte. La visión te jala. —STEVE JOBS

Uniformity is not the key to successful teamwork. The glue that holds a team together is unity of purpose.

As Michel de Montaigne observed, "No wind favors him who has no destined port.

When you get right down to it, intentional living is about living your best story.

Most people want to hear or tell a good story. But they don't realize they can and should be the good story. That requires intentional living.

There comes a special moment in everyone's life, a moment for which that person was born.… When he seizes it… it is his finest hour.

One of the great ironies of life is that if you give up your life, you gain it. If you help others, you benefit. If you lose yourself, you find yourself.

look at the wisdom (and humor) found in this Chinese proverb: If you want happiness for an hour—take a nap. If you want happiness for a day—go fishing. If you want happiness for a month—get married. If you want happiness for a year—inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime—help others.