Quotes About Purpose

So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they're busy doing things they think are important. This is because they're chasing the wrong things.

It's not the meaning of life we seek but our aliveness. Once we have that, the meaning of life is obvious.

Human life [is] ... a process of filling in time until the arrival of death, or Santa Claus, with very little choice, if any, of what kind of business one is going to transact during the long wait.

Life is about more than earning a living, and if you're not in the habit of thinking about it, you can end up middle-aged or even older and shocked to realize that your life seems empty.

If you really know what you want out of life, it's amazing how opportunities will come to enable you to carry them out.

Life is not about having and getting. It's about being and becoming.

The best advice I could give anyone is to spend your time working on whatever you are passionate about in life.

Nothing shapes your life more than the commitments you choose to make.

There is a coherent plan to the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.

When in doubt, do something.

When I consider my ministry, I think of the world. Anything less than that would not be worthy of Christ, nor of his will for my life.

If He wasn't going to use that hard thing for your good, it wouldn't have happened. He had to sign off on every single thing that touches your life.

You have to count on living every single day in a way you believe will make you feel good about your life - so that if it were over tomorrow, you'd be content with yourself.

Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.

God has plans, not problems for our lives. The life of a Christian is an education for a higher service. God is training you for something.

Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.

If you seem something that is true and do not act then you are wasting your life. And life is too precious. It is all that we have.

This life is a dressing room for eternity - THAT'S ALL IT IS!

I live my life with a sense of urgency that most people cant comprehend.

I'm going to live my life. It's nobody else's decision, but mine. I think there are a lot worse things I could be doing with my life than what I choose to do.

Why were there no buoys in life to show you the way?

Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous.

If your life is motivated by your ambition to leave a legacy, what you'll probably leave as a legacy is ambition.

Again the greatest use of a human was to be useful. Not to consume, not to watch, but to do something for someone else that improved their life, even for a few minutes.