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Quotes About Purpose

Remember always your end, and that lost time does not return.
~ Thomas a Kempis
Half the time men think they are talking business, they are wasting time.
~ E. W. Howe
I decided that I didn't want to spend my time in a liberal arts college.
~ Chick Corea
We shall never have more time. We have, and always had, all the time there is. No object is served in waiting until next week or even until tomorrow. Keep going... Concentrate on something useful.
~ Arnold Bennett
Now is a time for change, a time to become the greatest version of yourself. And a time to to make your grandest vision of the world .
~ Ilchi Lee
When we live our lives authentically, we discover our true place in the world for the first time.
~ Sarah Ban Breathnach
Live for an ideal, and that one ideal alone. Let it be so great, so strong, that there may be nothing else left in the mind; no place for anything else, no time for anything else.
~ Swami Vivekananda
I can't remember a time when I wasn't acting, so I can't imagine what I would do if I stopped now.
~ Lillian Gish
If you really want to know where your destiny lies, look at where you apply your time.
~ Mark Cuban
I am here now, because I am supposed to be here. And I guess when it is my time to cross over there, I will be over there. I am not religious, but I am spiritual, honey. My day is coming!
~ NeNe Leakes
When we no longer seek God for His blessings, we have time to seek Him for Himself.
~ Oswald Chambers
Waiting for the Lord in a season of darkness should not be a time of inactivity. We should do what we can do. And doing is often God's appointed remedy for despair.
~ John Piper
I have yet to hear of anyone who, on his deathbed, wished he'd spent more time at the office.
~ Joseph Stowell
A man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive.
~ Anne Carson
Since time out of mind, a considered act of heroism has been the cure for stultifying ambivalence.
~ Clarissa Pinkola Estes
The time is short. Eternity is long. It is the time of decision.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Careers very rarely are a waste of time; jobs usually are.
~ Donald Glover
Why are people born? Why do they die? Why do they want to spend so much of the intervening time wearing digital watches?
~ Douglas Adams
Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.
~ John Locke
Time spent in a casino is time given to death, a foretaste of the hour when one's flesh will be diverted to the purposes of the worm and not of the will.
~ Rebecca West
Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost and replaced by vague ritual.
~ Frank Herbert
Each hour comes with some little faggot of God's will fastened upon its back.
~ Frederick William Faber
Most people are so busy living they neglect to take the time to ask why.
~ Gene Simmons
We're all living on borrowed time. The trick is to come up with works of sufficient interest to pay off the debt.
~ John M. Ford