Quotes About Purpose

We are not on this earth to accumulate victories, things, and experiences, but to be whittled and sandpapered until what's left is who we truly are.

Business or toil is merely utilitarian. It is necessary but does not enrich or ennoble a human life.

Happiness does not lie in amusement; it would be strange if one were to take trouble and suffer hardship all one's life in order to amuse oneself.

In short, we cannot grow, we cannot achieve authentic discovery, and our eyes cannot be cleansed to the truly beautiful possibilities of life, if we simply live a neutral existence.

School teaches you what to do with the rest of your life. I already knew.

If there's even one thing we can do - even one life we can save - we have an obligation to try

Your dreams, what you hope for and all that, it's not separate from your life. It grows right up out of it.

The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for!

When people don't have an objective, there's much less dynamic effort, and that makes life a lot less interesting.

In the chain of my life, there were so many links, all of which tended towards bringing me to the fulfillment of my destiny.

Relationships keep us alive and our lives meaningful.

Don't do things to not die, do things to enjoy living. The by-product may be not dying.

God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die.

Goals give purpose. Purpose gives faith. Faith gives courage. Courage gives enthusiasm. Enthusiasm gives energy. Energy gives life. Life lifts you over the bar.

How many things in the world deserve our loyalty? Very few indeed. I think one should be loyal to immortality, which is another word for life, a stronger word for it.

I did what I came here to do. What I've done I've done with sincerity and to the best of my ability. You can't expect much more from life.

If the existence of human beings leads to nothing, what is all this comedy about?

The object of convalescence ought to be to turn our attention to life: at other times, simply to our tasks!

My life is a blessing every day that I get up. God saved my feet. How am I not going to use them?

Try looking at life as a beautifully well-organized dynamic.

But what if Shakespeare? and Hamlet? were asking the wrong question? What if the real question is not whether to be, but how to be?

The idea of duty--that recognition of something to be lived for beyond the mere satisfaction of self--is to the moral life what the addition of a great central ganglion is to animal life.

There is no why. We are. Life is beyond reason.

Music is essentially useless, as is life.