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Quotes About Purpose

People come into your life for a reason, a season or a lifetime. When you know which one it is, you will know what to do for that person. When someone is in your life for a REASON, it is usually to meet a need you have expressed. They have come to assist you through a difficulty, to provide you with guidance and support, to aid you physically, emotionally or spiritually!
~ Unknown
I might not get exactly what I wish and pray for. All I know is God will give me the people who I need. The people who will help me get up when I have fallen down, to hurt me when I need to become stronger, to leave me when I need experience, to love me when I am lonely, to tell me how beautiful I am when I feel upset about myself and to make me the person I was meant to be.
~ Unknown
When I ask teachers why they teach, they almost always say that it is because they want to make a difference in the lives of children.
~ Arne Duncan
Everything on the earth has a purpose, every disease an herb to cure it, and every person a mission. This is the Indian theory of existence.
~ Unknown
He who chooses to be a master never does just enough to get by; nor does he cut corners or attempt to cheat the system. He who chooses mastery lives his life asking, 'How can I do more, give more, be more, and thereby accelerate the achievement of my ultimate destiny?'
~ James Arthur Ray
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.
~ Socrates
When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society.
~ Pope John Paul II
Without just one nest A bird can call the world home Life is your career
~ Chuck Palahniuk
To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom
~ Andre Gide
We cannot free ourselves unless we move forward united in a single desire.
~ Unknown
If it is true that the basic quest of man is freedom, the question we must ask is: Is it freedom from or freedom for? Rabbi Joseph H
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
There is such a thing as perfection...and our purpose for living is to find that perfection and show it forth....Each of us is in truth an unlimited idea of freedom. Everything that limits us we have to put aside.
~ Richard Bach
God works in mysterious ways but at least he works, he's never on welfare in a mysterious way.
~ Stephen Colbert
I believe that the Good Lord gave us a finite number of heartbeats and I'm damned if I'm going to use up mine running up and down a street.
~ Neil Armstrong
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
~ Japanese Proverb
If you dont know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.
~ Yogi Berra
The main thing is keeping the main thing the main thing.
~ German proverb
Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you're alive it isn't.
~ Richard Bach
I cannot afford to waste my time making money.
~ Louis Agassiz
Give me a stock clerk with a goal and I'll give you a man who will make history. Give me a man with no goals and I'll give you a stock clerk.
~ Unknown
I don't want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.
~ Marilyn Monroe
I once wanted to prove myself by being a great actress. Now I want to prove that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll be a great actress.
~ Marilyn Monroe
Die Liebe und die Arbeit sind die beiden einzigen wahren Dinge in unserem Leben. Sie gehören zusammen, sonst ist es schief. Die Arbeit ist selbst eine Form der Liebe. Love and work are the only two real things in our lives. They belong together, otherwise it is off. Work is in itself a form of love.
~ Marilyn Monroe