Quotes About Purpose

Existence without an aim, without a worthy purpose, is worse than wasted

You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused, and your whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing.

A will finds a way.

Believe with all your heart that you will do what you were made to do.

The greatest thing a man can do in this world, is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success, and there is no other.

Believe with all of your heart that you will do what you were made to do.

The greatest thing a man can possibly do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success, and there is no other. It is not a question of what someone else can do or become which every youth should ask himself, but what can I do? How can I develop myself into the grandest possible manhood?

If you want to live the life you've always wanted, you'll have to make the changes you've always needed.

You will never know what could have been done until you start doing what needs to be done.

Death is only a tragedy when life's purpose was left unfulfilled.

Focus is the ability to say no to the GOOD so you can fulfill the yes you said to the GREAT.

Sadly, when a person's possessions distract him from his purpose, he usually ends up losing both.

Self-denial in the pursuit of purpose generates true pleasure while self-indulgence in the pursuit of pleasure generates true misery.

Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf.

Human beings are free except when humanity needs them. Maybe humanity needs you. To do something. Maybe humanity needs me—to find out what you're good for. We might both do despicable things, Ender, but if humankind survives, then we were good tools.

I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.

as modern people, we have too much to live with and too little to live for.

Calling is more than purely cultural, but it is also more than purely personal. Discover the meaning of calling and you discover the heart of the gospel itself.

The trouble is that, as modern people, we have too much to live with and too little to live for. Some feel they have time but not enough money; others feel they have money but not enough time. But for most of us, in the midst of material plenty, we have spiritual poverty.

All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible. This I did.

Somehow we human beings are never happier than when we are expressing the deepest gifts that are truly us.

What Socrates called the "unexamined life" that is "not worth living" now seems to be the life more people have slipped into than ever before.

Our task is to focus on our individual callings in engaging with the world, to trust that others are following theirs too, and to leave to God the masterminding of the grand outcome.

what matters for each of us is the adequacy and truth of what we come to believe is the meaning of life—and therefore the source from which we derive our sense of identity, purpose, ethics and community.