Quotes About Purpose

We should enjoy and make the most of life, not because we are in constant fear of what might happen to us in a mythical afterlife, but because we have only one opportunity to live.

Some people die twice: once when they retire, and again when they actually pass away. Fear of the first one is a big incentive for me to keep working.

My greatest fear in life is standing before the Lord and hearing Him say, 'I had so much more for you, but you held on too tightly.'

I think that once you lose your fear, and understand that your position is God-given, then, if you lose your fear of what man can do, it enables you to do some things that God wants you to do.

The more fear we feel about a specific enterprise, the more certain we can be that that enterprise is important to us and to the growth of our soul.

Those who live to live forever, never fear dying.

You can't be disturbed by anything. There's no emotion involved. You can't feel sorrow, you can't feel pity, there's nothing you feel. The job has to be done.

Most people's lives are nothing more than pointlessly frantic activity used as a psychological defense against their own impotence and fear.

Our fear of not mattering much has the potential to draw us away from what matters most.

My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning. I wanted my death to be something the people could relate to, a basis for further mobilization of the community.

By unlinking your money motivation from anger, fear, and the need to prove yourself, you can install new links for earning your money through purpose, contribution, and joy.

They may well fear fate who have any infirmity of habit or aim: but they who rest on what is have a destiny beyond destiny, and can make mouths of fortune.

The tiger lies low not from fear, but for aim. ~Wren

If you take too long in deciding what to do with your life, you'll find you've done it.

The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

I fear insignificance more than I fear failure.

When your cause is noble, you shall never know fear.

There is nothing in the universe that I fear but that I shall not know all my duty or fail to do it.

Do not be afraid of living without family- be afraid of living an empty and meaningless life

Have we ever thought that being lost is our destination?

Fear left unrestrained always leaves us running 'from' something. Fear harnessed compels us to run 'to' something. And fear denied leaves us running in circles.

We waste time dreaming for the perfect life, Instead of creating the perfect life ourself.

If you do what you need, you're surviving. If you do what you want, you're living.