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Quotes About Purpose

If you're bored with life - you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things - you don't have enough goals.
~ Lou Holtz
I will leave this shining life of cricket very soon. This bat and ball won't save Shahid Afridi in Grave
~ Shahid Afridi
I don't like to say I have given my life to art. I prefer to say art has given me my life.
~ Frank Stella
Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart.
~ Jeremiah
At the core of life is a hard purposefulness, a determination to live.
~ Howard Thurman
The really important thing is not to live, but to live well. And to live well meant, along with more enjoyable things in life, to live according to your principles.
~ Socrates
My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive
~ Maya Angelou
You'll never know why you exist, but you'll always allow yourselves to be easily persuaded to take life seriously.
~ Tristan Tzara
In life one must decide whether to conjugate the verb to have or the verb to be.
~ Franz Liszt
To be who you are and become what you are capable of is the only goal worth living.
~ Alvin Ailey
A life lived for art, is never a life wasted.
~ Macklemore
The most important knowledge is that which guides the way you lead your life.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Life is not about maximizing everything, it's about giving something back - like light, space, form, serenity, joy. You have to give something back.
~ Glenn Murcutt
Do nothing which is of no use.
~ Miyamoto Musashi
I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
~ Thomas Carlyle
What we get from this adventure is just sheer joy. And joy is, after all, the end of life. We do not live to eat and make money.
~ George Leigh Mallory
The life is worth living. It's not true, what the tired and reactionary say. We're not on this earth to suffer and die. We're here to fulfill a mission.
~ Joseph Goebbels
Just as the good life is something beyond the pleasant life, the meaningful life is beyond the good life.
~ Martin Seligman
When goals go, meaning goes. When meaning goes, purpose goes. When purpose goes, life goes dead on our hands.
~ Carl Jung
The great issue of life is to harness the drum major instinct.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Throw yourself into life as someone who makes a difference, accepting that you may not understand how or why.
~ Benjamin Zander
I think life is too short not to be doing something which you really believe in.
~ Steve McCurry
By all evidence we are in the world to do nothing.
~ Emil M. Cioran
The most important task of your life is not what you do, but who you become.
~ John Ortberg