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Quotes About Purpose

Let go of the things that make you feel dead. Life is worth living!
~ Rihanna
Before you tell your life what you intend to do with it, listen for what it intends to do with you.
~ Parker J. Palmer
I feel more alive now than I ever have in my life. I have a chance to live, as I've dreamed.
~ Nina Simone
Salvation is free, but discipleship will cost you your life
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Joy can only be real if people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Life is given to you like a flat piece of land and everything has to be done. I hope that when I'm finished, my piece of land will be a beautiful garden.
~ Jeanne Moreau
The tragedy of this life is not failure, but low aim.
~ Benjamin E. Mays
Do for this life as if you live forever, do for the afterlife as if you will die tomorrow.
~ Ali ibn Abi Talib
People don't buy what you do; they buy why you do it and what you do simply proves what you believe.
~ Simon Sinek
Talent is a gift that brings with it an obligation to serve the world, and not ourselves, for it is not of our making.
~ Jose Marti
Being of service is not an option, it is a biological necessity. Every kind of action we do for someone is a reanimation of our own life force - and of the other person's.
~ Caroline Myss
Life is a prize, but to live doesn't mean you're alive
~ Nicki Minaj
The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.
~ Ayn Rand
You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?
~ Seneca the Younger
Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
~ Viktor E. Frankl
An objective is an ambition, and life without ambition is ... well, aimless wandering.
~ Alfred Wainwright
Rowing harder doesn't help if the boat is headed in the wrong direction.
~ Kenichi Ohmae
One ,must have something to die for in order to have something to live for
~ Carlos Castaneda
Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Art is only a means to life, the life more abundant. It merely points the way.
~ Henry Miller
You ask, 'How to live my life?' But with the question you are suffocating life itself, for life is spontaneity.
~ Mooji
Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went.
~ John Updike
When life follows the course of our desires, it is easy to be swept along without thought.
~ Elizabeth Blackwell
Life is God's gift to us. What we do with it is our gift to God.
~ A. R. Bernard