Quotes About Purpose

Hard work and fun is what life is all about. As soon as something stops being fun, I think it's time to move on. Life is too short to be unhappy.

Long-term success will never come if profit is the only aim.

For those who think business exists to make a profit, I suggest they think again. Business makes a profit to exist. Surely it must exist for some higher, nobler purpose than that' - Ray Anderson, founder of Interface Inc.

There is no greater thing you can do with your life and your work than follow you passions - in a way that serves the world and you.

There is no greater thing you could do in your life and your work, than following your passions- in a way that serves the world and you.

Without a sense of purpose to life, a sense of what is truly most important to us, we become like the ball in a pinball machine, bouncing away from fear after fear. When we have a clear purpose, we may feel afraid or encounter obstacles, but we will do what it takes to move through the fear and solve the problems in front of us.

I've done the most awful rubbish in order to have somewhere to go in the morning.

And long after the history of all the big things that make the front pages are forgotten, what God has done through you and a few people will be history.

The key to a good life is this: If you're not going to talk about something during the last hour of your life, then don't make it a top priority during your lifetime.

Indeed, this is what modern and postmodern masculinity has been all about-men behaving like little boys forever, serving themselves in the name of self-discovery. (Can we imagine someone like Ronald Reagan or Winston Churchill talking about going on a quest to find his masculine self? They were too busy changing the world.)

So man is to work and, generally speaking, he is to marry.

It is God's purpose in our salvation that we should be holy, and therefore those who are predestined to salvation are predestined to holiness.

God's love never says, "I don't want to change you." Because God's love is holy, He intends to change us by loving means, so that we will become the holy people we were always meant to be.

He calls us to do this by being leaders and servants in the ultimate cause of displaying God's glory and bearing the fruit of God's love in real relationships.

Isn't it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were born? Who, with such a thought, would not spring from bed, eager to resume discovering the world and rejoicing to be part of it?

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.

Nature is not cruel, pitilessly, indifferent. This is one of the hardest lessons for humans to learn. We cannot admit that things might be neither good nor evil, neither cruel nor kind, but simply callous -- indifferent to all suffering, lacking all purpose.

There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point… The truly adult view, by contrast, is that our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make it.

After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn't it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? This is how I answer when I am asked—as I am surprisingly often—why I bother to get up in the mornings.

So it allows me to travel, I'll be doing that and running these great rivers and doing what I've done in the past without much purpose other than for the experience.

Happiness has a bad rap. People say it shouldn't be your goal in life. Oh, yes it should.

the fundamental purpose of school is learning, not teaching.

Drift beautifully on the surface, and you will die unbeautifully in the depths.

Find what causes a commotion in your heart. Find a way to write about that