Quotes About Purpose

Here's your choice: Spend a lot of time and money in pursuit of better. Or find what makes you different, and then do it on purpose.

Let me pass this way but once and do what good I can, I shall not pass this way again.

I did not come to NASA to make history.

Now I know what a ghost is. Unfinished business, that's what.

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without winds.

L'intelligenza senza ambizione è come un uccello senza ali.

Finesse and refinement are admirable qualities, but they are not the artist's ultimate goals; and, indeed, they can stand in the way of those goals.

There are two questions a man must ask himself: The first is 'Where am I going?' and the second is 'Who will go with me?' If you ever get these questions in the wrong order you are in trouble.

A society in which vocation and job are separated for most people gradually creates an economy that is often devoid of spirit, one that frequently fills our pocketbooks at the cost of emptying our souls.

I'm inhabiting a life I'm not supposed to be in... and at certain times in my life, I have felt a wrongness. And not a moral wrongness but a sense that this isn't what I was born to be doing.

The object of faith always determines its quality and worth.

People can live in other spheres (cf. 2:1-3), but Christians live in Christ.

I might face death any minute now! But I should try not to put myself in harms' way as long as I can live. Of course it is not important if I die, because this is going to happen anyway. I know my purpose, my purpose is: How will my life or death impact the lives of others?

The thing with me is, if I wake up one morning and I'm not happy working as an actress, I'll stop. It's not something I have to do. It's not a vocation.

Ben yaln?zca saÄŸa sola dola??p durmaktan b?kt?m, can s?k?nt?s? içinde yüzmek istemiyorum art?k, bir nedeni olmadan mutlu olmak da istemiyorum; günün birinde gözlerimi aç?p hepiniz gibi olduÄŸumu, ilk baÅŸta bildiÄŸimden fazla bir ÅŸey bilmediÄŸimi görmek istemiyorum!

Ben bilmek istiyorum; gerçekten de yaÅŸamak dediÄŸimiz ÅŸey ÅŸu bir avuç yerde yaÅŸlan?ncaya kadar dola??p durmaktan m? ibaret; yoksa dünyada baÅŸka ÅŸekilde yaÅŸamak da mümkün mü?

Every man dies. Not every man really lives." -William Wallace

We're not beginning...to...to...mean something? Mean something? You and I mean something?

All the things you would do gladly, oh without enthusiasm, but gladly, all the things there seems no reason for your not doing, and that you do not do! Can it be we are not free? It might be worth looking into.

All men can do great things, if they know what great things are.

Nothing will ever die so long as it knows what to do under the circumstances, in other words so long as it knows its business.

If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success.

Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.