Quotes About Purpose

Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.

Union may be strength, but it is mere brute strength unless wisely directed.

This is the thing that I was born to do.

your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life .... And, most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition." These

As peace is the end of war, so to be idle is the ultimate purpose of the busy.

For we that live to please must please to live.

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.

I never have sought the world; the world was not to seek me.

Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drive into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark.

I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want.

We have to know who we are before we can know what our interests are.

If the situation of a technological society was such that there could be no direct relation between a man's work and his modus vivendi, other than money, at least he must feel that he is directly changing things by his work, shaping things, making things that weren't there before, moving things from one place to another. He must exert energy in his work and see these changes occur with his own eyes. Otherwise he would feel his life was futile.

If ye were not Christ's wheat, appointed to be bread in His house, He would not grind you.

Venture through the thick of all things after Christ, and lose not your Master, Christ, in the throng of this great market.

When you start reconnecting with these missing [parts of yourself], you tend to realize that, until then, you had never really been incarnated on the planet. You thought you were, but if one considers the totality of your being, you were hardly there. You were literally all over space. The result was that you were sleeping your life instead of living it. Only when a gathering of all the parts has taken place inside your heart can you be fully present and find your real purpose on earth.

To look forward to whatever flowed through the doors. To save a life? Two lives? I felt proud. The burden of treating the intractable, untreatable, unplaceable, unwanted, had been replaced by the fantasy of being a real doctor, dealing with real disease.

It is not eminent talent that is required to ensure success in any pursuit, so much as purpose- not merely the power to achieve, but the will to labour energetically and perserveringly...Even if a man fail in his efforts, it will be a satisfaction to him to enjoy the consciousness of having done his best (p.205)

It is not then how much a man may know that is of importance, but the end and purpose for which he knows it (p.299).

Work without Hope draws nectar in a sieve,And Hope without an object cannot live.

Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years; people grow old by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

All ministry must be God-centered, but it must also be man-purposed.

To know and to act are one and the same.

The only plan that truly matters is the one you have for yourself.

Creating your life's work does not come from choosing safety and comfort over growth.