Quotes About Purpose

When they go fishing, it is not really fish they are after. It is a philosophic meditation.

Few women and fewer men have enough character to be idle.

Every now and then, a person must do something simply because he wants to, because it seems to him worth doing. And that does not make it worthless or a waste of time.

You told me once that we shall be judged by our intentions, not by our accomplishments. I thought it a grand remark. But we must intend to accomplish—not sit intending on a chair.

You can when you mean to,' said Maurice gently. 'You can do anything once you know what it is.

Vagueness spurred him into knight errantry.

I shall want to live, I tell you.

Their message was not of eternity, but of hope on this side of the grave.

I must get away, ever so far. I must know my own mind and where I want to go.

Serious not in the sense of glum; but they must be convinced that our life is a state of some importance, and our earth not a place to beat time on.

A man's reach must exceed his grasp, dear boy, or what the dickens is a heaven for?

Half the time men think they are talking business, they are wasting time.

Am I motivated by what I really want out of life -- or am I mass-motivated?

Everything that's really worthwhile in life comes to us.

People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.

The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers.

People who have goals succeed because they know where they're going. It's that simple.

A success is anyone who is doing deliberately a worthy predetermined job, because that's what he decided to do ... deliberately.

Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal

everything comes if a man would only wait. I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose, must accomplish it and that nothing can resist a will that will stake even existence for its fulfillment".

We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves.

A success is anyone who is realizing a worthy predetermined ideal, because that's what he or she decided to do …

The only person who succeeds is the person who is progressively realizing a worthy ideal.

Don't concern yourself with the money. Be of service. Build, work, dream, create. Do this, and you'll find there's no limit to the prosperity and abundance that will come to you.