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Quotes About Purpose

The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.
~ Bertrand Russell
Joy can be real only if people look upon their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness
~ Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
Art is the highest task and proper metaphysical activity of this life.
~ Nietzsche
Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
~ Dale Carnegie
I actually thought that it would be a little confusing during the same period of your life to be in one meeting when you're trying to make money, and then go to another meeting where you're giving it away.
~ Bill Gates
Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.
~ Helen Keller
Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
~ Socrates
Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Art is the proper task of life.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
We have one life; it soon will be past; what we do for God is all that will last.
~ Muhammad Ali
Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake up and live!
~ Bob Marley
There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.
~ Barack Obama
I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there's purpose and worth to each and every life.
~ Ronald Reagan
In life you need either inspiration or desperation.
~ Tony Robbins
One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.
~ Tony Robbins
When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.
~ Wayne Dyer
Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.
~ Wayne Dyer
The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.
~ Unknown
My life is my message.
~ Unknown
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
~ Abraham Lincoln