Quotes About Purpose

One has but to observe a community of beavers at work in a stream to understand the loss in his sagacity, balance, cooperation, competence, and purpose which Man has suffered since he rose up on his hind legs.... He began to chatter and he developed Reason, Thought, and Imagination, qualities which would get the smartest group of rabbits or orioles in the world into inextricable trouble overnight.

I also wish I'd been born with a clearly defined talent for something, or else stupid.

Character forms a life regardless of how obscurely that life is lived and how little light falls on it from the stars.

There's only one thing more important... and that is, after you've done what you set out to do, to feel that it's been worth doing.

Laziness in doing stupid things can be a great virtue Chang - Lost Horizon (1933)

As most real writers do, he wrote because he had something to say, not because of any specific ambition to be a writer.

Laziness in doing stupid things can be a great virtue...

We can learn to use the fire of our minds to good purpose.

Be not surprised if thou findest thyself in possession of unexpected wealth. Allah will provide an unexpected use for it.

Vuestro tiempo es limitado —dijo Steve Jobs en su famoso discurso en Stanford en 2005—, no os quedéis atrapados en el dogma… Y, lo más importante, tened la valentía de seguir vuestro corazón y vuestra intuición. De alguna manera, ellos ya saben en lo que os queréis convertir. Todo lo demás es secundario.»

La visión sin acción es un sueño. La acción sin visión es una pesadilla.

Find something you would die for and give your life to it.

As Nietzsche said: 'He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.

Vision without action is a dream. Action without vision is a nightmare.

Personal meaning is the way we connect to a wider team purpose. If our values and beliefs are aligned with the values and beliefs of the organization, then we will work harder towards its success. If not, our individual motivation and purpose will suffer, and so will the organization.

You better find out what you want in life, because that's what you're going to get!

There's nothing more demoralizing than a leader who can't clearly articulate why we're doing what we're doing.

As Michael pondered how shallow he had been, he was struck by another thought. It wasn't simply that he hadn't gone deep enough. It was rather that he had grown accustomed to wading in pools that had no depth to begin with. A turn toward holiness would be a turn toward a different life altogether - to a life where different things mattered than had mattered in the past. Did he desire such a life? He knew that of all the questions, this was the most important.

still have scars that need healing, wounds that may never completely go away. And I still have a lot of unanswered questions about the suffering I've seen. But at least I'm open and willing to have God show me the way. I listen closely to what he has to tell me. I know he helped me stay alive for a reason, and each day I strive to live out that reason.

It is better to live than lie dead. A dead man gathers no goods. Hávamál

And every good artist knows that the gift comes from somewhere else, and it's there for a reason, and that's to make the world a better place.

Make your feet your friend.

The secret of happiness in not in what one likes to do, but in what one has to do.

From eternity past God planned to destroy death.