Quotes About Purpose

Somehow I got the feeling at an early age that I had to do something important with my life.

I think it was Rose Macaulay who said, "A house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived."

I was born with these eyes. I was born for this life.

You can't have wasted a life you've barely lived.

Life is all business.

A life without vows is like a ship without an anchor or like an edifice that is built on sand instead of a solid rock.

What does it matter that we take different roads so long as we reach the same goal?

The least a person can ask out of life is to be needed by someone.

Life is what we are alive to.

Waste not the remnant of thy life in those imaginations touching other folk, whereby thou contributest not to the common weal.

Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly.

Nor do I regret that I have lived, since I have so lived that I think I was not born in vain, and I quit life as if it were an inn, not a home.

A life without purpose is like a novel without a plot. It wanders all over the place, is hard to follow, and in the end, doesn't get particularly good reviews.

I don't think you have to go out and become Secretary of State or be Bono but I think it's to let people know that whatever they do in their life that that's good.

The moral is to make all one can out of life and live up to one's fingers' ends.

I knew that if I wanted to survive, it wasn't about healing or trying to forget. It was about how I could use my life to answer what had happened to us. In many ways, it saved my life.

Dürer would have seen a reason for living in a town like this.

There is only ever one answer to the question what did you do with your life, and it's the same--fleeting and unknowable--for every one of us. I lived.

We are likely to feel better when we go to bed tonight if we have an internal sense that we spent our lives meaningfully today.

Always live your life with your biography in mind," Dad was fond of saying. "Naturally, it won't be published unless you have a Magnificent Reason, but at the very least you will be living grandly.

I was a very driven person, wanting to help and to do good, hopefully to write and teach in a meaningful way - wanting to make change. And I discovered humbly that life was changing me.

Born empty handed, Die empty handed. I witnessed life at its fullest, Empty handed.

I wondered what else in my life I perceived to be wrong or difficult instead of exploring to understand the true purpose.

Needs are the expression of life through us.