Quotes About Purpose

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

Any person who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved, has already defined his own limitations.

I know of no better life purpose than to perish in attempting the great and the impossible. . . .

One great question underlies our experience, whether we think about it or not: what is the purpose of life? From the moment of birth every human being wants happiness and does not want suffering. Neither social conditioning nor education nor ideology affects this. From the very core of our being, we simply desire contentment. Therefore, it is important to discover what will bring about the greatest degree of happiness.

A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.

I love inspiring people, and if I can make a difference in one person's life, then that's success for me!

God has a plan for my life and that's all I need to know.

It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.

It concerns us to know the purposes we seek in life, for then, like archers aiming at a definite mark, we shall be more likely to attain what we want.

Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it onto future generations.

It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all.

Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.

Every choice moves us closer to or farther away from something. Where are your choices taking your life? What do your behaviors demonstrate that you are saying yes or no to in life?

Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.

It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I have not lived.

The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.

Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.

Plan out your life on paper but live your life by your heart.

One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.

If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a 'wandering to find home,'' why should we not look forward to the arrival?

Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.