Quotes About Purpose

Failure is not meant to be final and fatal.... It is meant to refine you to be all that you are meant to be.

I treated it like every day was my last day with a basketball.

Every action needs to be prompted by a motive.

I am what I wanted and I want what I am.

Are we not all immortal till our work is done?

Inspiration is being motivated by a person or idea. Motivation is being inspired by an object. When people are inspired, they don't need motivation.

You can't hit a target if you don't know what it is.

This was the very reason why you were brought to Narnia, that by knowing me here for a little, you may know me better there.

Until you find something to fight for, you settle for something to fight against.

Christ is more concerned about what we do with Him than for Him.

Mr. Franz, I think careers are a 20th century invention and I don't want one.

In the great orchestra we call life, you have an instrument and a song, and you owe it to God to play them both sublimely.

I would give all the wealth of the world, and all the deeds of all the heroes, for one true vision.

In every moment there is a reason to carry on.

If I had one wish for my children, it would be that each of them would reach for goals that have meaning for them as individuals.

Just get out of the way. Just GO. Forget the corporate rules where you have to sit and meet. Forget that. What's the goal? OK. How you going to get there? Now let's charge! GO!

Never again clutter your days or nights with so many menial and unimportant things that you have no time to accept a real challenge when it comes along.

We are here to influence the world rather than to be influenced by the world.

All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.

I have never felt that anything really mattered but knowing that you stood for the things in which you believed and had done the very best you could.

Have a definite, clear, practical ideal - a goal, an objective.

A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving.

The continual looking forward to the eternal world is not a form of escapism or wishful thinking, but one of the things a Christian is meant to do.

What you plan is too small for you to live.