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Quotes About Purpose

We are here lounging our time away, doing nothing, and having nothing to do. It gives me great regret to be passing my time so uselessly when it could have been so importantly employed at home.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Because of Christ, even our catastrophes have purpose. God is preparing our character for the time when we will see Him face to face.
~ Kenneth Boa
The one thing I don't understand is when people make comments who are clearly not fans of mine. I think, why are you here? Why are you wasting your time? It's fascinating.
~ Madonna Ciccone
When one pays a visit it is for the purpose of wasting other people's time, not one's own.
~ Oscar Wilde
The West has made people too time-conscious, not knowing where they are going but speeding to get there because time is short.
~ Rajneesh
Reality lies far beyond space and time, and I need to know why.
~ Richard Bach
God accepts us unconditionally, and in his view we are all precious and priceless. Focus on this and you will not waste any time and effort trying to be someone you're not.
~ Rick Warren
Believe that when something is meant to be, it will happen. In God's time. At the right moment. For the best reason. With the right person
~ Rita Zahara
Is what I'm doing or about to do getting us closer to our objective?
~ Robert Townsend
Keep on dreaming boy cause when you stop dreaming it's time to die.
~ Shannon Hoon
The little time that remains between this moment and our death, should quicken our diligence to inherit the endless and unchangeable eternity of God.
~ Stephen Charnock
It is wonderful when you don't have the fear, and a lot of the time I don't ... I focus on what needs to be done instead.
~ Wangari Maathai
You don't have as much time as you think you do. You got to operate like there's a sense of urgency!
~ Eric Thomas
Work at something you enjoy and that's worthy of your time and talent.
~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
The true finish is the work of time, and the use to which a thing is put. The elements are still polishing the pyramids.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Every person is born with a talent, and happiness depends on discovering that talent in time.
~ Isabel Allende
You can't waste time and you can't save time; you can only choose what you do at any given moment.
~ James Gleick
There is no fun in doing nothing when you have nothing to do. Wasting time is merely an occupation then, and a most exhausting one.
~ Jerome K. Jerome
Disciplined people can do the right thing at the right time in the right way for the right reason.
~ John Ortberg
When you kill time, remember that it has no resurrection.
~ A.W. Tozer
There's no good way to waste your time. Wasting time is just wasting time.
~ Helen Mirren
Every move a sloth makes is with purpose, which is more than most of us can say about 90% of the time.
~ Ann Burton
God seems to have left the receiver off the hook and time is running out.
~ Arthur Koestler
We are born to a time. What you do with it is on you. Do the best you can. Try to be good. And live.
~ Charlie LeDuff