Quotes About Purpose

I figured, There's no sense doing anything when everything's already been done

but mostly, I guess, I want to really mean something to somebody

Boy, if you ain't a case: waiting someday to be a something to a Somebody you don't even know, yet.

This is a crucial point, because it alerts us to the fact that, no matter how high-minded, idealistic, or altruistic a cause might appear—from ecology to cultural diversity to spirituality to world peace—the simple mouthing of intense support for that cause is not enough to determine why, in fact, that cause is being embraced.

What do you want?" and so on might be a few of the questions asked and responded to.

The power of a thing or an act is in the meaning and the understanding.

I believe the power to make money is a gift from God...to be developed and used to the best of our ability for the good of mankind.

Purpose is a desire for something in our own power, coupled with an investigation into its means.

We are born to action and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Power acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose. [Lat., Imperium flagitio acquisitum nemo unquam bonis artibus exercuit.]

Some people are foolish enough to imagine that wealth and power and fame satisfy our hearts: but they never do, unless they are used to create and distribute happiness in the world.

Money is only unused power. The real purpose of wealth, after food, clothing and shelter, is philanthropy.

Lord, my life is but a mist (James 4:14), yet through Your power, the things I give myself to can have an eternal impact. I am Your vessel

Intention is power. Intention is ownership. Intention is commitment. Intention is magic.

Power seeking to manifest causes desire within you.

Purpose in the human being is a much more complex phenomenon than what used to be called will power.

30. If Will stops and cries Why, invoking Because, then Will stops an does naught. 31. If power asks why, then power is weakness.

What power there is in our service when our actions line up with our mission, skills and joy.

If you are going into show business for money and power, forget it! It won't happen. You don't go for that first.

Power is the ability to achieve purpose.

Let the power of intention lead the way.

You are exactly who the Greatest You (aka God) most wanted to be, not a frail offshoot who must bow, curtsey, and yield to this "higher power" but an unbeknownst Lord yourself.

The purpose of a writer is to be read, and the criticism which would destroy the power of pleasing must be blown aside

The Spirit power begins in directing the Animal power to other than egoistic ends.