Quotes About Purpose

You must see the change you wish to be in the world.

Knowing serves no real purpose, but then, neither does not knowing. Myself, I always prefer knowing to not.

People frequently continued to go on as they had been after all purpose in it had been lost.

Callandor shone in his fist until it seemed he carried the sun. Dimly within him, fluttering like a candle flame in a storm, was the surety that holding Callandor, he could do anything. Anything.

and at such times he was filled with odd thoughts that this was not the way things were supposed to be, that there should be something more to his life. Elayne

Traditions should not be maintained just because they were traditions. Strength was not strength if it had no purpose or direction.

The choice isn't always about what you do, son, but why you do it.

Life was only a dream, and all dreams had to end. Aiel

A man must seek duty, not glory.

explain if you could; your people did better if they knew the why as well as the what.

Creator made women so men would not find life too easy.

This meeting had only one real purpose, a simple and ancient ceremony of the Borderlands that had been recorded only seven times in all the years since the Breaking. A simple ceremony that would commit them beyond anything words could do, however strong.

But it did matter. He'd spent his entire life searching. He'd apprenticed to a dozen different professions. He'd fought in revolts, sailed two seas. All the while searching, searching for something he hadn't been able to define. He'd found it when he'd come to the Black Tower.

Old age was a frustration when there was so much to do.

Wash the spears—Life is a dream. Wash the spears—All dreams must end.

Should and would build no bridges

Being of the Yellow isn't about skill, child," Suana said. "It's about passion. If you love to make things well, to fix that which is broken, there would be a purpose for you here.

I came here to get there. Do I have any fucking clue what there is? Hell the fuck no. I'm just trying to live in a world of the dead.

A reason or a purpose is a combination of wants and don't wants.

the only way to see what really mattered in life was to go to the places that were hardest to reach.

He is emotionally distant as long as he is in the Warrior. This does not mean that the man accessing the Warrior in his fullness is cruel, just that he does not make his decisions and implement them out of emotional relatedness to anyone or anything except his ideal.

All that is necessary to be a saint is to want to be one. Don't you believe that God will make you what He created you to be, if you will consent to let Him do it? All you have to do is desire it.

A leader must not only explain to and reassure employees that their jobs are important to the overall mission of the organization; he must ensure that their work really does contribute, that it is not pointless make-work or wheel spinning.

To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain which sustain life, not the top. Here's where things grow.