Quotes About Purpose

When people rally together to support a good cause, it shouts a second message to the community at large, that people can work unselfishly together if our eyes are on God and on those in need, rather than on our own advancement.

God sends children for another purpose than merely to keep up the race -- to enlarge our hearts, to make us unselfish, and full of kindly sympathies and affections.

Human beings were meant to love, and life was empty without that.

Creation's gold mine is in you. The key is deliberate intention. Whatever your dream may be at this moment, identify it. If you cannot define your desire, it can never become a reality.

We [-women and men-] are all equal in our creaturehood, whatever our sex, color, age, background, or abilities. But we are all different in the functions we were created to perform, as different as water from stones, and engineering from imaginative fiction.

It's not so much how busy you are, but why you are busy. The bee is praised. The mosquito is swatted.

I simply do not distinguish between work and play.

I don't want to end up simply having visited this world.

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms. When it is over, I don't want to wonder if I have made of my life something particular, and real. I don't want to find myself sighing and frightened, or full of argument. I don't want to end up simply having visited this world.

Budgets and plans have three purposes: (1) Set goals, (2) make forecasts, and (3) allocate resources. It would seem efficient to use a single plan to accomplish all three purposes, but in fact, combining the purposes compromises all of them.

The purpose of process standards is to act as a baseline for continuous improvement.

I could not tell what I should fill even this one day with; and there were years ahead. She

That," I said, "is the business of the gods, who made us." "Yes, but for what? We ought to be good for it, whatever it is. How can we live, until we know?" I gazed at him; such desperate words, yet he looked all lit from within. He saw I was paying attention; that was enough to draw him on.

There is only one journey, she said, that all men make. They go forth from the Mother, and do what men are born to do, till she stretches out her hand, and calls them home.

Love is the true food of the soul. But the soul eats to live, like the body– it mustn't live to eat...The soul lives to do!

He was filled with a vast sense of the momentous, of unknown mysteries. He did not know what he should demand of himself, nor did it seem to matter, for he had not chosen this music he moved to, it had chosen him.

Think about what you love, Hildegard. Trust it. That's where your talents lie and that's where you'll find happiness, even here.

nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose

You do best at what you enjoy doing most. It's how you feel about yourself that counts most.

for every man; a thing which, here and now, it were of all things wisest for him to do; which could he but be led or driven to do, he were then doing "like a man," as we phrase it. His success, in such case, were complete, his felicity a maximum. This path, to find this path, and walk in it, is the one thing needful for him.

It is the preservation of the species, not of individuals, which appears to be the design of Deity throughout the whole of nature.

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose -- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

When you believe that you are not worthwhile in and of yourself, in the back of your mind you also begin to believe that life is not worthwhile in and of itself. It is only worthwhile insofar as it relates to your crusade. It is a kamikaze mission.