Quotes About Purpose

I wanna live 'til I die, no more, no less.

I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.

Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.

I always wait for the Times each morning. I look at the obituary column and if I?m not in it, I go to work.

And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.

It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God, but to create him.

We have a lot of kids who don't know what works means. They think work is a four-letter word.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.

God did not intend religion to be an exercise club.

I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiousity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

God put haters on this earth for two reasons: 1. To motivate others. 2. To give no lives a job.

Many are the plans in a mans heart, but it is the Lords purpose that prevails. -Proverbs 19:21

The purpose of a Christian education would not be merely to make men and women pious Christians: a system which aimed too rigidly at this end alone would become only obscurantist. A Christian education must primarily teach people to be able to think in Christian categories.

If God is your partner, make your plans BIG!

All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.

When you leave here, don't forget why you came. ( to college graduates)

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.

The secret of success is constancy of purpose.

You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world.

Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves.

A passionate interest in what you do is the secret of enjoying life...whether it is helping old people or children, or making cheese or growing earthworms.