Quotes About Purpose

There was a period when I'd just come out of college where I'd been playing classical guitar and I suddenly realised that it wasn't what I wanted to do with the rest of my life.

When we search for something larger than our own selves to hook into, we can come through whatever life throws at us.

I want a singleness of eye, a purity of intention, a central core to my life that will enable me to carry out these obligations and activities as well as I can.

There is one purpose to life and one only: to bear witness to and understand as much as possible of the complexity of the world- its beauty, its mysteries, its riddles.

Just as soon as you attain to one ambition you see another one glittering higher up still. It does make life so interesting.

I don't waste time being soft. I'm not cold, but I don't like being, wasting my time with-life's too short.

Everything is done with a goal, and that goal is "good."

I've always made a point of not wasting my life, and every time I come back here I know that all I've done is to waste my life.

Build a life, don't live one...

I've always had- how shall I say it? -the prize at the end. My whole life shows that.

Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.

I've not conducted my life in the service of smallness.

Why live life from dream to dream, and dread the day when dreaming ends.

a dream can be the highest point of a life

All my life I wanted to accomplish something worthwhile-a thing people will say took a little something.

An awareness of one's mortality can lead you to wake up and live an authentic, meaningful life.

Don't try to help people to 'not die', help them to enjoy life!

I wouldn't be satisfied with a life lived solely on the barricades. I reserve my right to be frivolous.

Creating a meaningful life has less to do with how we feel about our past than what we do about our future.

One of the primary goals in life ... should be to prepare for death. Everything else should be secondary.

Having knowledge of the Bible is essential to a rich and meaningful life.

We must all face the fact that in a single lifetime we lead several simultaneous lives; our intention should be to make them reinforce one another instead of colliding.

Selecting your next challenge in life, choose one that is meaningful and will demand your complete concentration.

Goals that are not written down and developed into plans are like bullets without powder in the cartridge. People with unwritten goals go through life shooting blanks.