Quotes About Purpose

It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.

Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's a day you've had everything to do and you've done it.

It used to be about trying to do something. Now it's about trying to be someone.

Of course, to be a mother and a housewife is a vocation of a very high kind. But I simply felt that it was not the whole of my vocation. I knew that I also wanted a career. A phrase that Irene Ward, MP for Tynemouth, and I often used was that 'while the home must always be the centre of one's life, it should not be the boundary of one's ambitions'.

Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it

while the home must always be the centre of one's life, it should not be the boundary of one's ambitions'.

What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.

A man with nothing to die for has even less for which to live.

Often people attempt to live their lives backwards they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

Walking bores me. I mean, we have to have a goal.

The need exists. I serve the need. After me the need will exist and the need will be served. Let me do well what has and will be done as well by others. Let me take on the role and then let it go.

I said, I like my life. If I have to give it back, if they take it from me, let me not feel I wasted any, let me not feel I forgot to love anyone I meant to love, that I forgot to give what I held in my hands, that I forgot to do some little piece of the work that wanted to come through.

The pitcher cries for water to carry and a person for work that is real.

Now you are in the true world, and a great deal more is required of you. Here you must befriend real wolves, and lure real birds down from the sky. Here you must endure real people around you, and we are not uniformly kind; we are damaged and impulsive, each in our own way. It is harder. It is not safe. But it is what you were born to.

If I'm going to spend a lifetime writing my story, I want it to mean something.

I don't need the money, dear. I work for art.

The truest measure of life is not in its length but the fullness in which it is lived.

Study as if you were going to live forever live as if you were going to die tomorrow.

The purpose of life is to obey the hidden command which ensures harmony among all and creates an ever better world. We are not created only to enjoy the world, we are created in order to evolve the cosmos.

Who knows what the world would be like if we all kept our interests, talents, goals, and dreams alive.

When you stop having dreams and ideals - well, you might as well stop altogether.

Happiness is not the purpose of life. The purpose of life is "to glorify God and enjoy Him forever."3

Service is the rent we pay to be living. It is the very purpose of life and not something you do in your spare time.

Service is what life is all about.