Quotes About Purpose

My formula for happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal.

If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

I don't have the recipe for happiness, but I think the engine is simply having the desire.

We bring a deeper commitment to our happiness when we fully understand, that our time left is limited and we really need to make it count.

To fill the hour; that is happiness to fill the hour, and leave no crevice for a repentance or an approval.

I look on that man as happy, who, when there is question of success, looks into his work for a reply.

The activity of happiness must occupy an entire lifetime; for one swallow does not a summer make.

Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

I believe that a worthwhile life is defined by a kind of spiritual journey and a sense of obligation.

The will of man is his happiness.

When we run from God, we run away from everything that makes us alive and free. We run away from our own happiness. We leave our place where we belong—close to his heart.

There is only one inborn error. and that is the notion that we exist in order to be happy.

You don't find happiness, you make happiness.

If I'm not working, I'm not happy. That's it. That's the prerequisite for me for happiness.

The drive for happiness is vital; it's what keeps us in motion.

Happiness cannot be attained by wanting to be happy - it must come as the unintended consequence of working for a goal greater than oneself.

To be happy is not the purpose of our being, but to deserve happiness.

God seeks for your individual happiness above all other godly concerns.

Happiness is a sort of action.

If you can achieve action, you will achieve happiness.

Success and happiness are not matters of chance but choice.

Happiness lies in the absorption in some vocation which satisfies the soul.

All genuine ideals have one thing in common: they express the desire for something which is not yet accomplished but which is desirable for the purpose of the growth and happiness of the individual.

The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness