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Quotes About Purpose

Make sure your desire to do what you're aspiring to do is deeper than just fame and being a celebrity.
~ Meagan Good
Jesus cares more about desire than about competence
~ Mike Yaconelli
The true seeker hunts naught but the object of his quest, and the lover has no desire save union with his Beloved.
~ Baha'u'llah
So let your deepest desires direct your aim. Set your sights far above the 'reasonable' target. The power of purpose is profound only if you have a desire that stirs the heart.
~ Price Pritchett
It's so important to consider this question: What do I desire?
~ Alan Watts
If our deepest desires cannot be satisfied in this world, then we must have been made for another world.
~ C. S. Lewis
Means must be subsidiary to ends and to our desire for dignity and value.
~ Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
For the material, at best, is only temporal, or temporary, while that which may be built from spiritual desire, spiritual purposes, is eternal.
~ Edgar Cayce
Most software has a tiny essence that justifies its existence, everything after that is wants and desires mistaken for needs and necessities.
~ David Heinemeier Hansson
Those whose upper and lower ranks have the same desire are victorious.
~ Sun Tzu
Say to yourself, 'I'm here on purpose, I can accomplish anything I desire, and I do it by being in harmony with the all-pervading creative force in the universe.
~ Wayne Dyer
If we discover a desire within us that nothing in this world can satisfy, also we should begin to wonder if perhaps we were created for another world.
~ C. S. Lewis
Within every desire is the mechanics of its fulfillment.
~ Deepak Chopra
To desire with one's very soul every second of every day to accomplish one's aim.
~ Yamamoto Tsunetomo
To pray in the name of Christ is to pray as one who is at one with Christ, whose minid is the mind of Christ, whose desires are the desires of Christ, and whose purpose is one with that of Christ.
~ Samuel Chadwick
Those things that I must do I shall desire to do.
~ Walter Russell
One must desire something to be alive.
~ Margaret Deland
I suspect that much of our praying to be used is selfish, and underneath it is the sneaking desire to make our mark and be recognized.
~ Vance Havner
My motivation comes from a desire to make a difference in the quality of people's lives.
~ Marie Forleo
You can become a great creator or a little one as the intensity of your desire is little or great.
~ Walter Russell
The desire not to be anything is the desire not to be.
~ Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Live so that thou mayest desire to live again - that is thy duty - for in any case thou wilt live again!
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Let yourself be gently pulled by the deeper desire of what you want.
~ Rumi
I dare not say with Paul that I am the slave of Christ, but my highest aspiration and desire is to be the slave of Christ.
~ George MacDonald