Quotes About Purpose

You dare your Yes - and experience a meaning...You repeat your Yes - and all things acquire a meaning...When everything has a meaning, how can you live anything but a YES.

I think living in our culture right now, there's a universal experience where we feel like we become what we do. Sometimes that's rewarding and sometimes that creates an existential crisis.

Ask, could my gifts, education, career, or experience be used to spread the gospel where it's needed most?

Nothing happens quite by chance. It's a question of accretion of information and experience.

No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted.

My experience is, people who retire die sooner than they should have.

The tragedy is not so much the experience that you're having. The tragedy is that we don't take the time to understand the meaning and purpose behind what we're going through.

In order to experience real magic it is necessary to make a dramatic shift from outcome to purpose.

I've always been about setting goals. Then when I had a near death experience at nineteen, it made it even more important to strive to achieve certain things.

The more you achieve, the more interest it should spark to go further, because there's so much - and I don't mean monetarily and I don't mean in society. This whole experience of living is so rich!

We're not mere spectators, or a cosmic accident, or some sideshow, or the Greek chorus to the main event. The human experience IS the main event.

Uselessness is a fatal accusation to bring against any act which is done for its presumed utility, but those which are done for their own sake are their own justification.

There are no coincidences in the universe, only convergences of Will, Intent, and Experience.

Wisdom comes from intent, experience, and finding courage.

Your own experience keeps taking you towards something. My book adds the hope that it's a better something.

To me, no matter what we do, we all strive for that experience.

When I feel very loved, when I nurture and support people, my experience is deepened. I feel connected to a larger purpose and meaning.

I, at the age of 17 or 18 as a medical student, suddenly came up against a problem: 'What am I? What is the meaning of my existence as I experience it?'

Thinking to do or not to do is not the right thing to do, just think the right way and do it

I'm not afraid of failure; I'm afraid of succeeding at things that don't matter.

I'd rather be partly great than entirely useless.

Low aim, not failure, is the crime.

If you're not a target, you're a failure.

With the ambitious, the failure of one expedient is the suggestion of another; but with the irresolute, defeat usually occasions abandonment of purpose.