Quotes About Purpose

Success is the progressive realization of a worthy ideal.

There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is the definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it." —Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich

Be happy, and the reason will appear.

Everything you do, every decision you make, is either building your dream or building someone else's dream. Every single thing you do is either leading you away from the masses—or leading you away with the masses. Every single thing you do is a slight edge decision.

I believe we are here to learn and grow, and to become so abundant in belief in ourselves that we finally tap into the full potential of the greatness that is within us and share that greatness with the world.

Life is doing. If you aren't doing, you're dying.

There is one quality which one must possess to win," writes Napoleon Hill in his all-time classic Think and Grow Rich, "and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

I want the world to be better because I was here. I want my life, my work, my family to mean something. If you are not making someone else's life better you are wasting your time. Your life will only become better by helping make other lives better.

There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is the definiteness of purpose,

the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it." —Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich

Documents usually describe what we need, but not why we need it.

Right now you should stop whatever you're doing and say this out loud: Stories get their name from how they're supposed to be used, not from what you're trying to write down.

If your goal in reading this book is to learn to write better stories, you've got the wrong goal.

His mouth spewed out a gigantic waterfall of stupid comments on a regular basis, but he'd always said them on purpose. Being an accidental dullard was something new. Did sudden celebrity turn one into an idiot? It would certainly explain a lot...

I think that may be the highest purpose of any work of art, to inspire someone else to save themselves through art. Creating creates creators.

I think the disconnect is more related to the idea of "being" anything when it's the "doing" that's more rewarding. Being something isn't real in the same way that doing something can be real.

Maybe it's a cliché, but you have to focus on verbs over nouns -- what you want to do, not what you want to be.

If you don't know your passion, it confuses your mind, not your heart.

But what if you discover that the price of purpose is to render invisible so many other things?

Back there, I had always felt as if my work amounted to a futile attempt to save us from who we are.

I'm not an answer," she said. "I'm a question." She might also be a message incarnate, a signal in the flesh, even if she hadn't yet figured out what story she was supposed to tell.

And God said, Let there be light. God said that, Saul, and He has come from so far away, and His home is gone, but His purpose remains. Would you deny Him His new kingdom?

You can't trust how I'll get somewhere, but you have to trust I know where I'm going. I always know where I'm going.

A lighthouse was a fixed beacon for a fixed purpose; a person was a moving one. But people still emanated light in their way, still shown across the miles as a warning, an invitation, or even just a static signal. People opened up so they became a brightness, or they went dark. They turned their light inward sometimes, so you couldn't see it, because they had no other choice.