Quotes About Purpose

Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.

The secret to a fulfilled life is not only to do well but also to do good.

Life is so short, it seems careless not to use it all.

I'm 47, You learn life is short and it's not worth doing something if you don't enjoy it.

Concerts every night, autograph signings, endorsements, and so on. That's not what real life is about.

The more you learn what to do with yourself, and the more you do for others, the more you will learn to enjoy the abundant life.

This earth will be looked back on like a lowly home, and this life of ours be remembered like a short apprenticeship to duty.

O gentlemen, the time of life is short! To spend that shortness basely were too long, If life did ride upon a dial's point, Still ending at the arrival of an hour.

This life has been a test. If it had been an actual life, you would have received actual instructions on where to go and what to do.

I'm 26 years old, and I've spent my whole life waiting for something else to start. Now I realize that this is all there is, and I'm going to try to live my life like that.

We are here just for a spell and then pass on. So get a few laughs and do the best you can. Live your life so that whenever you lose it, you are ahead.

I have fun. I enjoy my life. And I was hardwired for a deep connection between service, God, and happiness. You kind of need all of those things to be in play for one to have the others.

What has brought unique, irreplaceable me - out of all the possibilities of life - here, now, to this?

He that attends to his interior self, That has a heart, and keeps it; has a mind That hungers, and supplies it; and who seeks A social, not a dissipated life, Has business.

Being a screenwriter is not enough for a full creative life.

Thou hast no life to lose, because thou hast given it already to Christ, nor can man take away that without God's leave.

Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world's life

There is no emptiness of soul ever for those whose life is devoted to God.

I knew all along that the prize I had set my life on was not worth the winning.

mistakes are a part of life, and Papa works her purpose in them too.

My life's purpose is to write poetry - but behind the poetry must be the vision of a fresh revelation for men.

I think it's really important to have a life outside of this [movie] business and just be the best person you can be.

Life's short, so if you're going to spend months doing something, it's gotta be pretty special... But I'm very happy to enter my Baby Jane years, and hopefully segue into the Ruth Gordon years.

It's a cliché - but true - that life is not a dress rehearsal. You get to do it once, so do it well.