Quotes About Purpose

Men... performed better when they understood why they were being asked to carry out a task.

I'm not really interested in being king. I prefer to work for a living

When you can't see the reason for something, look for the possible result—and ask yourself who might benefit from it.

settle on one direction

And when there's no point to something, the best idea is not to do it.

If the church ever succeeds in doing that which God purposes we should do, it can only be when we enter into that divine compassion of the Son of God.

has a purpose in you. Christ's purpose in you is to reveal Himself to you, through you, in you. We

A goal, in itself, is an empty thing; all the virtue lies in the moving toward the goal.

the wind has a purpose - to rattle the window panes, disturb the cat and make me miss you ...

When people lose their way and lack a real purpose for living they often fall back on certain forms of escapism as a form of self-soothing...

futility is being sorry while doing nothing to remove the cause ...

you are a river rock and belong in a stream - not here in this upper room sinking in my bed...

you can be talented as a wolf is breathtakingly fierce...silver and gray, like smoke in the trees - but what do you do with terrible beauty?...

He stands out among the beacon lights of history as a man of vision dominated by a definite purpose.

as the foot of the marble sink that was Jonathan's next destination. His sink. One of two.

Not to be needed is a slow death for a man.

If you don't live a life in service of a greater good, you've gotta at least die a death in service of a greater good, you know? And I fear that I won't get either a life or a death that means anything.

Francois Rabelais. He was a poet. And his last words were "I go to seek a Great Perhaps." That's why I'm going. So I don't have to wait until I die to start seeking a Great Perhaps.

Clothe with life the weak intent, Let me be the thing I meant ...

Critics should find meaningful work.

Please give me fifty more years of work and fun, then an instant death when I'm sleeping.

Life is short..Live to the fullest..

Life is God's joke on us. It's our mission to figure out the punchline.

We must also remember some of the key lessons of Scripture. In our weakness he is strong. He can use suffering to strengthen our character. He can use evil to accomplish good (precisely the nature of the discussion in the book of Habakkuk). God's sovereignty is demonstrated in that whatever personal or nonpersonal agents do, God takes it and turns it to his purpose.