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Quotes About Purpose

Living the abundant life is different than knowing about it. It's time to begin practicing the life we were made for.
~ Mark Beeson
...that not life, but a good life, is to be chiefly valued.
~ Plato
If one was to think constantly of death, the business of life would stand still
~ Samuel Johnson
It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.
~ Thomas a Kempis
You are embarking on the greatest adventure of your life - to improve your self-image, to create more meaning in your life and in the lives of others. This is your responsibility.
~ Maxwell Maltz
If art is not to be life-enhancing, what is it to be?
~ May Sarton
Try to live your life in a way that you will not regret years of useless virtue and inertia and timidity.
~ Maya Angelou
Have you been able to think out and manage your own life? You have done the greatest task of all.... All other things, ruling, hoarding, building, are only little appendages and props, at most.
~ Michel de Montaigne
What I will say is that Naz and I are not together just because we like to hang out. The purpose is finding someone that you can spend the rest of your life with, for me anyways.
~ Miguel
I give a damn if any fan recalls my legacy, I'm trying to live life in the sight of GOD's memory.
~ Mos Def
The mortal experience . . . is not like a college course which we can passively audit. Instead, we are taking life's course for credit and there are no summers off - not even semester breaks.
~ Neal A. Maxwell
Each state of life has its special duties; by their accomplishments one may find happiness.
~ Nicholas of Flue
I think when you are named Noah, you are destined for a certain way of life.
~ Noah Wyle
Having and raising children is doing something with your life! ... And I have to say that having your kids is one of the greatest things you can do.
~ Patricia Heaton
Life is too short to waste on things that don't matter.
~ Patrick Dixon
In the end, each life is no more than the sum of contingent facts, a chronicle of chance intersections, of flukes, of random events that divulge nothing but their own lack of purpose.
~ Paul Auster
The mountain represents your purpose in life. You and your people will enjoy the greatest success and satisfaction if you relentlessly pursue your purpose.
~ Paul G. Stoltz
Let's say financially. Financially, I personally believe that you should have enough to do the assignment that you feel is part of your life. And whatever that is to do, you're going to need.
~ Paula White
A warrior of light always commits himself. He is enslaved to his dream but he is free in his steps.
~ Paulo Coelho
So we contemplate each other, and we want each other, and I give it life and warmth, and it gives me my reason for living.
~ Paulo Coelho
One can abandon one's personal legend for a time, as long as one does not forget about it entirely and returns to it as soon as possible.
~ Paulo Coelho
The closer you get to your dream, the more your personal legend becomes your real reason for living.
~ Paulo Coelho
They were seeking out the treasure of their destiny, without actually wanting to live out their destiny.
~ Paulo Coelho
Life can seem short or life can seem long, depending on how you live it.
~ Paulo Coelho