Quotes About Purpose

In life, we have either reasons or results

I think that's what keeps you grounded - having your own life that's not directed by your job.

Life's but a means unto an end, that end, Beginning, mean, and end to all things--God.

For most of my life, I have wanted broad impact but now, at 72, I'm not so sure that's always my first priority.

I always have the feeling that I'm sitting around not doing anything with my life. A little Calvinist guilt that I should be more productive.

Let us not be satisfied with a mediocre life.

Everyone is called, everyone is sent out… The call of God can reach us on the assembly line and in the office, in the supermarket and in the stairwell, i.e., in the places of everyday life.

Idleness or boredom has no place in the life of a Christian.

I want every day to be life for the living, not just traipsing through it existing. I'm just interested in life and the world and exploring.

Everybody has a calling. And your real job in life is to figure out as soon as possible what that is, who you were meant to be, and to begin to honor that in the best way possible for yourself.

Your intention rules your life and determines the outcome.

There is a vision for my life that is greater than my imagination can hold.

Living your best life is to find out what your calling is. Your real job on Earth is to find out what you were meant to be doing & to find a way to do that thing.

Instead of looking for the success in your life, look for the thing that is going to bring you the greatest joy.

Death is only a tragedy when life's purpose was left unfulfilled.

As he thought of it, though, he could not imagine what "just living" might actually be. He had never done it in his life. But he wanted to do it anyway.

Death is not a tragedy to the one who dies; to have wasted the life before that death, that is the tragedy.

Poke gave him life. Ender gave it meaning.

Don't squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar

If I obey Jesus Christ in the seemingly random circumstances of life, they become pinholes through which I see the face of God.

One life totally devoted to God is of more value to Him than one hundred lives which have been simply awakened by His Spirit.

I am a handmaiden of Death. I walk in His dark shadow and do His bidding. Serving Him is my only purpose in this life.

What is life when living without the Lifemaker?

To purify the heart is the one and only purpose that God has created this human life.