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Quotes About Purpose

Nicht der Weg war das Ziel. Das Ziel hatte einen Weg, und den musste man irgendwann einschlagen.
~ Elisabeth Herrmann
It is very important that you only do what you love to do. you may be poor, you may go hungry, you may lose your car, you may have to move into a shabby place to live, but you will totally live. And at the end of your days you will bless your life because you have done what you came here to do. Otherwise, you will live your life as a prostitute, you will do things only for a reason, to please other people, and you will never have lived. and you will not have a pleasant death.
~ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose, there are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.
~ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Everything in this life has a purpose, there are no mistakes, no coincidences.
~ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
It is very important that you only do what you love to do. You may be poor, you may go hungry, you may lose your car, you may have to move into a shabby place to live, but you will totally live. And at the end of your days you will bless your life because you have done what you came here to do.
~ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Live, so you do not have to look back and say: 'God, how I have wasted my life.'
~ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.
~ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
To do each day, humbly, and so that God alone may see it, all the good that one can do; always to seek out all the misery and grief within reach in order to relieve them; to cultivate in oneself a lively sympathy for everyone; and to do all this for God alone — that is the goal of all human existence.
~ Elisabeth Leseur
El hombre debe aprender que el sentido de la vida consiste en dar ejemplo.
~ Elisabeth Lukas
Maybe Nils was right and it was meant to be like this. Maybe you had to go through just so much, and then you reached the place where you were supposed to be.
~ Elisabeth Ogilvie
Someone would come and see her. Someone always came. There was always a knock at the door. Everyone had a right to come to her; that was what she was for, that was her function, her reason for being. There was never an hour that belonged to her.
~ Elisabeth Sanxay Holding
Alex, you cannot understand the meaning of productivity unless you know what the goal is. Until then, you're just playing a lot of games with numbers and words." "Okay, then it's market share," I tell him. "That's the goal." "Is it?" he asks. He steps into the plane. "Hey! Can't you tell me?" I call to him. "Think about it, Alex. You can find the answer with your own mind," he says.
~ Eliyahu M. Goldratt
Every organization was built for a purpose. We haven't built any organization just for the sake of its mere existence.
~ Eliyahu M. Goldratt
If any organization was built for a purpose and any organization is composed of more than one person, then we must conclude that the purpose of the organization requires the synchronized efforts of more than one person.
~ Eliyahu M. Goldratt
Quality alone cannot be the goal. It's important. But it's not the goal.
~ Eliyahu M. Goldratt
The man, most man, Works best for men: and, if most man indeed, He gets his manhood plainest from his soul.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for love's sake only.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Love doesn't make the world go round, Love is what makes the ride worthwhile!
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Better far Pursue a frivolous trade by serious means, Than a sublime art frivolously.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
This to certify that I am alive after all; yes, and getting stronger, and intending to be strong before long, though the sense left to me is of a peculiar frailty of being; no very marked opinion upon my hold of life. But life will last as long as God finds it useful for myself and others — which is enough, both for them and me.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
When there is no longer any growth in me, I desire to die — for one. And at present I by no means desire to die.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
There's value in work you enjoy, or that serves a need. There's no value in work for its own sake.
~ Elizabeth Bear
No, worse. It had never existed. I had invented it; I had allowed myself to be deluded, because I had so badly wanted it to exist. I had wanted to belong to a thing. I had wanted to need and be needed. Why are we born needing impossible things? Why is it that we all have things we need to live that simply do not exist in the universe? A purpose in life. Unconditional love? Our emotional needs met? Ha. What cruel asshole thought this shit up?
~ Elizabeth Bear
I wished I could offer her tea. You don't think about it, but all those little fusses we make over company have their purposes. They give us something to do with our hands and our anxiousness until everybody settles in and starts having fun.
~ Elizabeth Bear