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Quotes About Purpose

Every time I would think about my purpose, the answers seemed to come in sounds. In melodies. In feelings.
~ David Archuleta
Free time is my enemy. I recognized early on I'm not a guy who should have a lot of time to contemplate the mysteries of the universe. I need to stay busy... That's just the nature of my demons.
~ Anthony Bourdain
I know not what you believe of God, but I believe He gave yearnings and longings to be filled, and that He did not mean all our time should be devoted to feeding and clothing the body
~ Lucy Stone
There is never enough time, unless you're serving it.
~ Malcolm Forbes
When you take my time, you take something I had meant to use.
~ Marianne Moore
I see no reason why I should tickle stones or waste time on polishing bronze.
~ Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
Really try to find a job where it's fun to get up and get out the door, no matter what time.
~ Martha Stewart
I think people ought to do what they feel useful at the time. If I do things because I ought to do them, I switch off.
~ Matthew Macfadyen
We're all put on Earth for a limited amount of time. Am I using in a way that is great, or good enough, or wasteful?
~ Max Levchin
I never think of the time I have lost. I just carry out a programme because it's there. It's mapped out for me.
~ Nelson Mandela
Nothing is more unworthy of a wise man, or ought to trouble him more, than to have allowed more time for trifling, and useless things, than they deserve.
~ Plato
Time is one of our most valuable possessions. Use it wisely. Remind yourselves often that things that matter most should not be left to the mercy of things that matter the least.
~ O. Leslie Stone
My mission is to kill time, and time's to kill me in its turn. How comfortable one is among murderers.
~ Emile M. Cioran
Because just as arms have no force outside if there is no counsel within a house, study is vain and counsel useless that is not put to virtuous effect when the time calls.
~ Francois Rabelais
I believe that the quintessential task of every painter in any time has been to concentrate on the essential.
~ Gerhard Richter
I dont think we have any time to waste.
~ Henry Cisneros
I realized during my time as a chaplain that I didn't want to be a minister.
~ John Green
I wanna be a part of the generation that throws out money, throws out time, throws out all that we are against something bigger than ourselves.
~ Jon Foreman
God knows what happens to your time once you have begun to get old. You are busy all the time, you do important things, you work, and yet when you sum it all up the result is nothing.
~ Jons Jacob Berzelius
My ambitions were already very clearly fixed by the time I was 6 or 7.
~ Joshua Lederberg
The challenge of our time is to find a journey worthy of your heart and your soul.
~ Seth Godin
I have so much that I want to do. I hate wasting time.
~ Stephen Hawking
It's your time to live, don't mess it up.
~ Sue Monk Kidd
Everything happens for a reason, except possibly football. (in Thief of Time)
~ Terry Pratchett