Quotes About Purpose

Either in conflict with others or in harmony with them, we go through life like a runaway horse, unable to stop.

You need a plan to build a house. To build a life, it is even more important to have a plan or goal.

Why we are here is important, but to know where we are going is imperative. It's not what you've got, it's what you use, that makes a difference in how your life turns out.

There is no greater thing you can do with your life and your work than follow your passions – in a way that serves the world and you.

I'm killing time while I wait for life to shower me with meaning and happiness.

When you can live forever what do you live for?

We must have ideals and try to live up to them, even if we never quite succeed. Life would be a sorry business without them. With them it's grand and great.

How easily we get trapped in that which is not essential - in looking good, winning at competition, gathering power and wealth - when simply being alive is the gift beyond measure.

An unexamined life is not worth living, and an unexamined faith is not worth holding.

The majority prove their worth by keeping busy. A busy life is the nearest thing to a purposeful life.

Life is a gift... Life is a test... Life is temporary assignment.

Don't seek more days in your life but more life in your days.

You have a number of choices. You could continue to always fight against people who are really distractions. They're people in the cheap seats of life. Or you can do what you went there to do.

It is only of life on Earth, however, that one can speak with any certainty. It seems to me that all life on Earth, the sum total of life upon the Earth, has purpose.

I knew my life had been given back for a purpose.

Our purpose in life is to be happy. From the very core of our being, we simply desire contentment.

I think that is a very important component, to have passion, to have a dream, to have a purpose in life.

Commitment is that turning point in your life when you seize the moment to alter your destiny.

Don't be on your deathbed someday, having squandered your one chance at life, full of regret because you pursued little distractions instead of big dreams.

When we realize the shortness of life, we begin to see the importance of making every moment count.

In business, I've discovered that my purpose is to do my best to my utmost ability every day. That's my standard. I learned early in my life that I had high standards.

This is the purpose of theology. By it my life becomes clearer and more conscious.

Life in community is no less than a necessity for us, an inescapable 'must'all life created by God exists in communal order and works toward community.

Life is already too short to waste on speed.