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Quotes About Purpose

I want to live a full life - period.
~ Regina King
Our life is a gift from God. What we do with that life is our gift to God.
~ Samuel S. Sumner
Living with the immediacy of death helps you sort out your priorities in life. It helps you to live a less trivial life.
~ Sogyal Rinpoche
The primary purpose of meditation is to become conscious of, and familiar with, our inner life. The ultimate purpose is to reach the source of life and consciousness.
~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
~ William James
Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.
~ William James
Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life
~ William Ellery Channing
You have this one life. So just live it and just do it.
~ Cassey Ho
A life is measured by how it is lived for the sake of heaven.
~ Chaim Potok
This is a world of action, and not moping and droning in.
~ Charles Dickens
If you take life at face value, it loses its luster pretty quickly. If you go after it, you get more out of it.
~ Christopher Meloni
You're always haunted by the idea you're wasting your life.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Regrets are only felt by those who do not understand life's purpose.
~ Colleen Houck
Wherever you be, wherever you may, seek the truth, strive for the beautiful, achieve the good.
~ David Sheff
Acting is just a way of making a living, the family is life.
~ Denzel Washington
One of the purposes of life, and selfishly what makes people happy, is building things that are impactful.
~ Dustin Moskovitz
Our rewards in life will always be in direct ratio to our service.
~ Earl Nightingale
Human beings all change. Not what they are but who they are. We have the power to change what we do with our life and turn it into our destiny.
~ Elie Wiesel
We need not only a purpose in life to give meaning to our existence but also something to give meaning to our suffering. We need as much something to suffer for as something to live for.
~ Eric Hoffer
You cannot afford to live in potential for the rest of your life; at some point, you have to unleash the potential and make your move(ment).
~ Eric Thomas
I think everything happens for a reason and all the things that happened to me - good, bad - I'm glad they did. It's made me ready for life, for adulthood.
~ Freddy Adu
When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless.
~ John Gardner
Everybody dies … The thing is, to have a life before we die.
~ John Irving