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Quotes About Purpose

To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.
~ Walker Percy
Get rid of the idea that God wants you to sacrifice yourself for others, and that you can secure his favor by doing so; God requires nothing of the kind. What he wants is that you should make the most of yourself, for yourself, and for others; and you can help others more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.
~ Wallace D. Wattles
There are three motives for which we live; we live for the body, we live for the mind, we live for the soul.
~ Wallace D. Wattles
Do not wait for a change of environment before you act; get a change of environment by action. You can so act upon the environment in which you are now as to cause yourself to be transferred to a better environment. Hold with faith and purpose the vision of yourself in the better environment, but act upon your present environment with all your heart, and with all your strength, and with all your mind.
~ Wallace D. Wattles
Poverty can be done away with, not by increasing the number of well to do people who think about poverty, but by increasing the number of poor people who purpose with faith to get rich.
~ Wallace D. Wattles
See that you give them a use value greater than the cash value you are taking from them.
~ Wallace D. Wattles
you can render to God and humanity no greater service than to make the most of yourself.
~ Wallace D. Wattles
El uso científico del pensamiento consiste en: a) Formar una imagen mental clara y distintiva de lo que se quiere. b) Aferrarse a su propósito de obtener lo que quiere. c) Materializar, con fe agradecida de que se recibirá lo que se quiere.
~ Wallace D. Wattles
The very best thing you can do for the world is make the most of yourself
~ Wallace D. Wattles
Tan cierto es que la duda o la incredibilidad inician un movimiento que aleja todo de usted, como que la fe y el propósito inician un movimiento que le acerca todo. Es al no entender esto, que la mayoría de la gente fracasa.
~ Wallace D. Wattles
Recue na contemplação de sua visão e aumente sua fé e propósito; e por todos os meios, em tempos de dúvida e indecisão, cultive a gratidão.
~ Wallace D. Wattles
The purpose of life for us is growth, just as the purpose of life for trees and plants is growth.
~ Wallace D. Wattles
Do not sit down and try to ATTRACT the thing you want to you; but begin to move toward the thing you want, and you will find it coming to meet you. Action and reaction are equal; and the person who steadily and purposefully moves forward with one thing in view becomes a center toward which the thing he seeks is drawn with irresistible power;
~ Wallace D. Wattles
Hay tres motivos por los cuales vivimos: vivimos para el cuerpo, vivimos para la mente, y vivimos para el alma. 
~ Wallace D. Wattles
If the people have the Advancing Mind, have the Faith that they can become rich, and move forward with the fixed purpose to become rich, nothing can possibly keep them in poverty.
~ Wallace D. Wattles
Your part is to intelligently formulate your desire for the things which make for a larger life and to get these desires arranged into a coherent whole.
~ Wallace D. Wattles
Whenever you find yourself hurrying, call a halt; fix your attention on the mental image of the thing you want, and begin to give thanks that you are getting it. The exercise of gratitude will never fail to strengthen your faith and renew your purpose.
~ Wallace D. Wattles
but you will get rich most satisfactorily if you do that which you WANT to do. Doing what you want to do is life, and there is no real satisfaction in living if we are compelled to be forever doing something which we do not like to do
~ Wallace D. Wattles
Man was formed for growth, and all things external were designed to promote his growth.
~ Wallace D. Wattles
That which makes you want more money is the same as that which makes the plant grow; it is Life, seeking fuller expression.
~ Wallace D. Wattles
The more steady and continuous your faith and purpose, the more rapidly you will get rich, because you will make only positive impressions upon Substance;
~ Wallace D. Wattles
He used to tell me, 'Do what you like to do. It'll probably turn out to be what you do best.
~ Wallace Stegner
We write to make sense of it all.
~ Wallace Stegner
What ever happened to the passion we all had to improve ourselves, live up to our potential, leave a mark on the world? Our hottest arguments were always about how we could contribute. We did not care about the rewards. We were young and earnest.
~ Wallace Stegner