Quotes About Purpose

There's no time in life to be in neutral.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways

Promise yourself to live your life as a revolution and not just a process of evolution.

My function in life was to render clear what was already blindingly conspicuous

What I'm concerned about is the people who don't dwell on the meaninglessness of their lives, or the meaningfulness of it-who just pursue mindless entertainment.

The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service

Many people worry so much about managing their careers, but rarely spend half that much energy managing their LIVES. I want to make my life, not just my job, the best it can be. The rest will work itself out.

Life is too short to be small.

The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Dont ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.

Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of infinitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of life is to grasp as much as we can out of that infinitude

Everywhere in life the true question is, not what we have gained, but what we do.

You ask: what is the meaning or purpose of life? I can only answer with another question: do you think we are wise enough to read God's mind?

Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.

A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.

Sooner or later something seems to call us onto a particular path....This is what I must do, this is what I've got to have. This is who I am.

Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... Just one. Our life. We have nothing else.

You only live once - but if you work it right, once is enough.

Your distress about life might mean you have been living for the wrong reason, not that you have no reason for living.

Where is the Life we have lost in living?

We only live once, but once is enough if we do it right. Live your life with class, dignity, and style so that an exclamation, rather than a question mark signifies it!