Quotes About Purpose

Learn something every, second, every minute, every hour, every day, every month, and every year but remember what the purpose was for learning all those things.

Life is never too short, we just don't do what we want with it.

Maintain a clear line of sight to the difference you are hoping to make, and hold fast to that dream as you face the costs of the rise to power.

People who walk slow ain't got nowhere to go.

Your creativity has value. You're not wasting your time dreaming.

The Great Commission is the Great Adventure of Christianity.

Prayer had fortified him. It would require an almost superhuman strength of purpose, an absolute resolve, to save my brother from himself.

If you like small government you need to work hard at having a strong national defense that is not so militant. Personal liberty is the purpose of government, to protect liberty - not to run your personal life, not to run the economy, and not to pretend that we can tell the world how they ought to live.

The mentally ill people in our lives, as they strive to build healthy, well-supported, and rewarding lives for themselves, can show us all how to reconnect with the most primal of human urges, the urge to be of use, disentangling from social striving, consumer obsession, cynicism, boredom, and isolation, and honoring it among the true sources of human happiness.

One of the most common responses from groups is that in a culture of thinking, there is a sense of purpose to the learning.

He was rebuilt, reconstituted by vengeance dressed up as high purpose.

A sense of messianic purpose makes the national interest almost indistinguishable from the political interests of the president.

To sustain momentum through a period of difficult change, you have to find ways to remind people of the orienting value—the positive vision—that makes the current angst worthwhile.

Having listened to people facing the end of their days, we have never heard them say, "I wish I had spent more time at the office." Instead, they talk in countless variations about the other joys of life: family, friendships, the many ways in which their lives touched people and how their work meant something to others.

Philosophers used to speculate about what they called the meaning of life. (That is now the job of mystics and comedians.)

She would be. If you asked her for her hymn-book she'd imagine it was being borrowed for some felonious purpose." Aurelia looked interested. "I don't see what one could do with a hymn-book," she exclaimed. Mrs. Wookie's nose grew long again. "Don't you?" she answered. "Neither do I.

Critical thinking is not merely a negative activity. Its ultimate purpose is to cut through the crap and develop sound opinions that impel intelligent, effective action.

Every person has something that concerns her ultimately and whatever it is, that object of ultimate concern is that person's God

Your behavior reflects your actual purposes.

If you find what you do each day seems to have no link to any higher purpose, you probably want to rethink what you're doing.

Exercising adaptive leadership is about giving meaning to your life beyond your own ambition.

We are interested in finding the right customer, at the right price, consistent with our purpose and values, even if that means frequently turning away customers.

Christians have too easily, and too often, fallen into the trap of supposing that the nonhuman creation has worth only as it serves human purposes. This, however, is not a biblical perspective.

Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.