Quotes About Purpose

Todos vivimos sin saber por qué y para qué en búsqueda siempre de la felicidad. Nuestras vidas son diferentes e iguales a un mismo tiempo.

Don't ever confuse the two, your life and your work. That's what I have to say. The second is only a part of the first.

You cannot be really first-rate at your work if your work is all you are.

It's so much easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit.

No man ever said on his deathbed I wish I had spent more time at the office.

But I've finally recognized my body for what it is: a personality delivery system, designed expressly to carry my character from place to place, now and in the years to come. It's like a car, and while I like a red convertible or even a Bentley as well as the next person, what I really need are four tires and an engine. I don't require a hood ornament. It's not about how my body looks at this point; it's about how it works.

It was wonderful what a change had come over Joe. John laughed, and said he had grown an inch taller in that week, and I believe he had. He was just as kind and gentle as before, but there was more purpose and determination in all that he did—as if he had jumped at once from a boy into a man.

No, he said, that is more than a horse can understand, but the enemy must have been awfully wicked people, if it was right to go all that way over the sea on purpose to kill them.

Should I shrink from the work that God had set before me, because it was not fitted to my taste? Did not He know best what I should do, and where I ought to labour?

Zar da zazirem od posla Å¡to ga je Bog preda me postavio, jer ne odgovara mome ukusu?

There are long stretches of time when I don't know what I am doing, or what I have done - nothing mostly, but sometimes it would be nice to know what kind of nothing that was...

Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.

It must be awful to feel you're not needed.

I need to have something besides a husband and children to devote myself to! I don't want to have lived in vain like most people. I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to all people, even those I've never met. I want to go on living even after my death!

We all live, but we don't know the why or the wherefore. We all live with the object of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

If young people wished, they have it in their hands to make a bigger, more beautiful and better world, but that they occupy themselves with superficial things, without giving a thought to real beauty.

I know what I want, I have a goal, I have opinions, a religion and love. If only I can be myself, I'll be satisfied.

Time to get up time to get washed time to have lunch time to go to bed. What's the point if I never get up again what difference would it make? I might just as well be dead. You might just as well be dead. We all just as well be dead! This isn't living. This is…

I don't want to have lived in vain like most people. I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to all people, even those I've never met. I want to go on living even after my death! And that's why I'm so grateful to God for having given me this gift, which I can use to develop myself and to express all that's inside me!

Viviamo tutti con l'obiettivo di essere felici; le nostre vite sono diverse, eppure uguali.

O ja, ich will nicht umsonst gelebt haben wie die meisten Menschen. Ich will den Menschen, die um mich herum leben und mich doch nicht kennen, Freude und Nutzen bringen. Ich will fortleben, auch nach meinem Tod. (S.238f.)

I shall not remain insignificant, I shall work in the world for all mankind!

I want to go on living even after death

I need to have something besides a husband and children to devote myself to!