Quotes About Purpose

Remember who you are. - Kim Clark Dean of Harvard Business School.

When I'm working, I'm very purposeful and everything else gets out of focus. Something I've had to work on together with my wife is how to acknowledge each other in the midst of this and keep the relationship going.

Being alive, you have to do something. Not doing anything is also some kind of action.

The awakening man leads a purpose-full existence. He has heard the call to a deeper life. Not satisfied with survival alone, his ambitions are rooted in higher considerations- the excavation and actualization of his sacred purpose. He is energized by his purpose, not by the machinations of the unhealthy ego. He is coated in an authenticity of purpose that sees through the veils to what really matters. His purpose is his path.

Somebody asked me what I wanted to do. I just said I wanted to…just to give back to it what it's given me. And to meet all the other people that are doing it…just to be in the world, really.

Love is the answer. The question is unimportant.

Find something in life that you love doing. If you make a lot of money, that's a bonus, and if you don't, you still won't hate going to work.

There are deeper reasons to travel—itches and tickles on the underbelly of the unconscious mind. We go where we need to go, and then try to figure out what we're doing there.

1.?What do we want to be known FOR? 2.?What are we known FOR?

If it was true that all paths in our World led to only one place, then why not fill whatever path you chose with the best things you could find?

Why are you here?" Rob asked. "Because we have to play a sport; it's required," Truman replied. "Okay, so play it, don't just fuck around." "I'm not fucking around." "You're not making it hard." Truman didn't know what that meant. "If you go into something, you better make it hard. Otherwise what's the point?

thought precedes action.

Choose words that will point you in the direction of your goals.

Choose words that will point you in the direction of your goals. — Jeff Keller

Why am I choosing to be with these people?" Consciously or unconsciously, you may be choosing to hold yourself back—to be less than you are capable of becoming. By the way, I think

And when you give up your dreams, an important part of who you are dies with them, and so does that which makes you unique.

Inside of you, God plants His dream for your life. It is up to you to seek it, find it, and fulfill it. Don't cheat yourself out of His best for you life by allowing your daily routines to overcome His great purpose for you. It will take courage to pursue His calling. It will stretch you beyond reason. Reflect on the feeling that will wash over you when you finally arrive at the destination you have always dreamed about but hardly dared hope for.

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be." —Ralph Waldo Emerson (attrib.)

I guess it comes down to a simple choice, really. You get busy living, or get busy dying." —Andy Dufresne in The Shawshank Redemption

Because what you need to transform your life is not more information.

two critical areas of life, everyday happiness and long-term impact,

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be." —Ralph Waldo Emerson

One of the most compelling, universal human drives is the desire to feel that we make a difference—that because we were here, the world is a better place. Human beings are social animals, and there's something hardwired into us that needs to know that we've had an impact on the world.

You will become as small as your controlling desire, or as great as your dominant aspiration