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Quotes About Purpose

If you follow your bliss...the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living.
~ Joseph Campbell
The sweetness of life lies in usefulness, like honey deep in the heart of a clover bloom.
~ Laura Ingalls Wilder
The world is like a great empty dream. Why should one toil away one's life?
~ Li Bai
Purpose, or mission, is determined by the development of values, balance, ethics, humor, morality, and sensitivities. It manifests itself in the way we look at life.
~ Luci Swindoll
Life and death are important. Don't suffer them in vain.
~ Bodhidharma
I'll never second guess the things that I have done. I've got too much left to say and too much to become.
~ Alex Gaskarth
Life is a great and noble calling, not a mean and grovelling thing to be shuffled through as best as we can but a lofty and exalted destiny.
~ Aga Khan III
Life without pain has no meaning.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
If I should die tomorrow, I will have no regrets. I did what I wanted to do. You can't expect more from life.
~ Bruce Lee
You are not an accident. You are one of a kind. Your big dream is from God, and its irreplaceable. And you were born to seize it and celebrate it every day of your life!
~ Bruce Wilkinson
What is the worth of anything we do? The worth is in the act. Your worth halts when you surrender the will to change and experience life
~ Christopher Paolini
Regardless of our age, experience, or station in life, we are all missionaries.
~ David A. Bednar
...wanting things for the wrong reasons can turn anyone's life into a marshmallow on a stick over a hot fire: impossibly messy and eventually consumed, one way or another.
~ Deb Caletti
Life is not inherently meaningful. We make meaning happen through the attention and care we express through our actions.
~ Donna Farhi
It is the thoughts and intents of the heart that shape a person's life.
~ John Eldredge
We must remember there are different seasons in our lives and let God do what He wants to do in each of those seasons.
~ Joyce Meyer
I want to live my life in a way that when I get really old, I look back at my life and say: aaah I lived it, not survived it.
~ Kate Moss
Don't wait around for your life to happen to you. Find something that makes you happy, and do it. Because everything else is all just background noise.
~ George Mason
Alluding to hell is a warning that a person can completely neglect his purpose in life. I don't believe in an eternal hell.
~ Hans Kung
I haven't ever had any ambition in my life. I just drift from day to day with a stupid grin on my face.
~ Ian Gillan
He is the happiest man who can see the connection between the end and the beginning of life.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We only live once, since we are given the gift of life it should be our persistent endeavor to immortalize ourselves no matter what field of endeavor we choose.
~ Michael Jackson
We shape our life by deciding to pay attention to it. It is the direction of our attention and its intensity that will determines what we accomplish and how well.
~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Life is lived in the present and directed toward a future.
~ Milton H. Erickson