Quotes About Purpose

I think I lot of young people feel like they have no purpose, so I try to enlighten them with my life and show them you can do whatever you put your mind to.

You are nearing the land that is life; you will recognize it by its seriousness.

I think half of our life is written out for us and things happen the way their supposed to happen.

Life is wasted in the necessary preparation of finding what is the true way, and we die just as we enter it.

The dead sleep in their moonless night; my business is with the living.

Harmony of aim, not identity of conclusion, is the secret of sympathetic life.

I just believe that life is more than rehearsing how to die...

No matter what you achieve in life, you're always wondering, 'Is there something I should be doing? Is there something I'm missing?

I think movies are great and I have a great time making them but they're not what keeps you warm at night, or what's ultimately the most important thing in anyone's life journey.

Blanche, prosaic in a pale yellow sweater and blue jeans, was wondering again if anything mattered—-life, faith--specifically, finishing homework assignments.

Nothing worth doing can be accomplished in a single lifetime.

I think you should do in life what you think you'll make a real difference at. And generally, as a businessperson, you do things you don't really have experience in.

Date not the life which thou hast run by the mean of reckoning of the hours and days, which though hast breathed: a life spent worthily should be measured by a nobler line, - by deeds, not years.

A life spent worthily should be measured by a nobler line,-by deeds, not years.

The truly adult view [...] is that our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make it. And we can make it very wonderful indeed.

Most of what we strive for in our modern life uses the apparatus of goal seeking that was originally set up to seek goals in the state of nature.

Establish specific objectives, and move steadily toward them. A rudder won't control a drifting boat; it must be underway. Similarly, you need to be moving forward to gain control of your life.

Life is too god damn short and you can't waste a minute of it.

I've come to know that what we want in life is the greatest indication of who we really are (p. 331).

Life is not yours to take.

Sometimes, when tragedy strikes, people give up hope that they can expect anything more from life, when the real quest is finding out what life expects from them.

When you do the first half of life well, you have a good sense of yourself.

I didn't know I was really alive in this world until I felt things hard enough to kill for 'em.

I think I've got something else to help center my life.