Quotes About Purpose

Never mind searching for who you are. Search for the person you aspire to be.

Shall I redirect my life's journey because down some sideroad might be some trifle I'm entitled to?

Seeking happiness, I passed many travelers headed in the opposite direction, seeking happiness.

Sometimes in tragedy we find our life's purpose — the eye sheds a tear to find its focus.

Retirement is having nothing to do and someone always keeping you from it.

You can accept reality, or you can persist in your purpose until reality accepts you.

There is a purpose to our lives that each day tugs at our sleeve as an annoying distraction.

God left so many fingerprints at the scene of Creation that you wonder — does He want to be found, or does He want to be stopped?

I sit in my garden, gazing upon a beauty that cannot gaze upon itself. And I find sufficient purpose for my day.

It is the first purpose of hope to make hopelessness bearable.

The shortest distance between two points assumes you know where you're going.

If you don't decide what your life is about, it defaults to what you spend your days doing.

What to do with your one life? The same thing you would do if you had two lives, and this were the second.

Better you don't search for who you are until you know who it is you want to find.

Life is a brief opportunity to do something prehumously.

In the end the reason for anything is inseparable from the reason for everything.

If you aren't sure who you are, you might as well work on who you want to be.

Never ask, "What reason do I have to be happy?" Instead ask, "To what purpose can I attach my happiness?"

After a lifetime of deep thought, I've decided that life is a distraction, but probably not from anything important.

Be happy, and a reason will come along.

You get to an age when there are really just two reasons to get up in the morning — for goodness sake and for heaven's sake.

I wish to die knowing that I took a fleeting instant of eternity and fashioned from it a lifetime.

The best way to dispel negative thoughts is to require that they have a purpose.

More good has been accomplished by simple people seeking their own honest ends than by all the philanthropists in history.