Quotes About Purpose

which causes me to wonder, my own purpose on so many days as h umbel as the spider's, what is beautiful that I make? What is elegant? What feeds the world?

You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart.

Decide first what is authentic,then go after it with all your heart.

The Creator made us for each other. Me here. Zelia there. Space was put between us by human error. But our hearts listened to divine will.

The world can go on without me. Here I shall be held by love.

What I am doing now is for the future, though it may seem small, or trivial, or boring, to you.

The zest of the work is maintained by something better than the mere accumulation of money.

cannot doubt, from the evidence that I possess[,] that the National Gazette was instituted by him [Jefferson] for political purposes and that one leading object of it has been to render me and all the measures connected with my department as odious as possible.

The Lord will provide." Rockefeller tended to see a heavenly design in all things and was convinced that the Almighty had buried the oil in the earth for a purpose.

the Puritans had produced a religion that validated worldly activity, with "the making of money by acquisition as the ultimate purpose" of life.

Life was a serious business to me when I was young.

The Premier has advanced too far to recede with safety: he is deeply interested to execute his purpose, if possible. . . . In common life, to retract an error even in the beginning is no easy task. Perseverance confirms us in it and rivets the difficulty. . . . To this we may add that disappointment and opposition inflame the minds of men and attach them still more to their mistakes.

John D. retained his mystic faith that God had given him money for mankind's benefit.

But sometimes we has to be thankful for the things that hurt us,' I said, 'cause sometimes God does things that hurts us but they help somebody else.

She did have one other fear, though: missing the call of God.

Do this one thing.

God has a divine purpose for the current age. I will demonstrate that this purpose relates both to Israel and to the church. God, through Scripture, also provides us with insights regarding the characteristics of the present age. All of this serves as a prelude to specific end-time prophecies about the rapture and the subsequent tribulation period.

Growing into leadership begins with self-leadership—which starts with discovering and nurturing the inner drive that will spur you to seemingly impossible achievements. That drive may be moving toward your passion, if you're lucky enough to know

After his failed political career, Lincoln often pondered the question of the purpose of the meaning of life. In 1850 [ten years before he was elected President], Lincoln told Herdon [his law partner] How hard, oh how hard it is to die and leave one's country no better than if one had never lived.

It matters greatly not only that we birth and die but how we birth and die.

Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.

Some people wonder all their lives if they've made a difference. The Marines don't have that problem.

I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there's purpose and worth to each and every life.

I am not going to exploit for political purposes my opponent's youth and inexperience.