Quotes About Purpose

Life without absorbing occupation is hell - joy consists in forgetting life.

Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

I've been a long time coming, and I'll be a long time gone. You've got your whole life to do something, and that's not very long.

Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.

Life is wasted on the living.

There must be more to life than sitting wondering if there is more to life.

It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life does not lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy of life lies in having no goal to reach.

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.

There are two great days in a person's life -- the day we are born and the day we discover why.

Life is not a journey to the grave with intentions of arriving safely in a pretty well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out and loudly proclaiming ... WOW! What a ride!

I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live.

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.

No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.

Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it.

Ive learned that making a living is not the same thing as making a life.

The things that one most wants to do are the things that are probably most worth doing.

Winners are people with definite purpose in life.

It's easy to let life deteriorate into making a living instead of making a life. It's not the hours you put in, but what you out into the hours that count. Learn to express rather than impress. Expressing evokes a ''me too'' attitude while impressing evokes a ''so what'' attitude.

The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unfortunate but almost disqualified for life.

I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want.

The supreme object of life is to live. Few people live. It is true life only to realize one's own perfection, to make one's every dream a reality.