Quotes About Purpose

I don't want to live, I want to love first and live incidentally.

I dont' want to live - I want to love first, and live incidentally.

To fear retirement is to fear life.

Anyone can achieve something important. Contrary to popular belief, the key is not hard work, but finding the right thing to achieve.

If God wanted humans to play chess, he would have made us black or white.

The purpose of life is to serve. To serve is to make others happier, healthier, empowered, and enlightened.

All men know the use of the useful, but nobody knows the use of the useless!

When once we have received the bodily form complete, its parts do not fail to perform their functions till the end comes. In conflict with things or in harmony with them, they pursue their course to the end, with the speed of a galloping horse which cannot be stopped;--is it not sad? To be constantly toiling all one's lifetime, without seeing the fruit of one's labour, and to be weary and worn out with his labour, without knowing where he is going to:--is it not a deplorable case?

Ja sinulla on iso puu, etkä tiedä, mitä sillä tekisit! Mikset siirrä sitä tyhjälle kentälle tai asumattomaan metsään? Siellä voisit rauhassa kuljeskella sen ympärillä tai levätä sen siimeksessä. Se olisi turvassa kirveeltä, eikä kukaan vahingoittaisi sitä, sillä ellei siitä olisi hyötyä muille, mikä sitä silloin vahingoittaisi?

Everyone knows how useful usefulness is, but no one (4:20) seems to know how useful uselessness is.

So, this is retirement? This feeling of emptiness?

I don't care how much power, brilliance or energy you have, if you don't harness it and focus it on a specific target, and hold it there you're never going to accomplish as much as your ability warrants.

How can you hit a target you don't have?

Don't become a wandering generality. Be a meaningful specific.

Everybody says they want to be free. Take the train off the tracks and it's free-but it can't go anywhere.

The great majority of people are "wandering generalities" rather than "meaningful specifics". The fact is that you can't bit a target that you can't see. If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else. You have to have goals.

People do not wander around and then find themselves at the top of Mount Everest.

Dont count the things you do, do the things that count.

You hit what you aim at, and if you aim at nothing you will hit it every time.

If you are going to be successful, you must develop persistence. How do you do that? It is not easily condensed in one simple statement, but one thing you can be sure of is that your must define your purpose.

I never worry because I know who I am and I know Whose I am.

Live creatively, friends. . . . Make a careful exploration of who you are and the work you have been given, and then sink yourself into that. Don't be impressed with yourself. Don't compare yourself with others" (Galatians 6:1, 4).

Anyone with a Purpose Can Make a Difference

Value and purpose are about understanding the specific benefits you will help people receive if they receive what you have for them.