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Quotes About Purpose

I want to go working with good people on something that's good, because otherwise it's a big waste of time. I don't have that much time.
~ Stockard Channing
If you are not enjoying yourself, you are wasting time.
~ Susan Jeffers
This is what I believe: That we are not pushed from behind by the casual unfolding of historical necessity, but that we are in the grip of an attractor of some sort, which lies ahead of us in time.
~ Terence McKenna
I want to live. I didn't have time to die.
~ Tionne Watkins
There is something going on in time and space, and beyond time and space, which, whether we like it or not, spells duty.
~ Winston Churchill
People are looking around. They are looking to do something with their time and money. The question is, what?
~ John Simon
I came back [to Beijing ] because that's the only time I had an excuse to come back, or otherwise I would never have a reason to come back.
~ Ai Weiwei
It's time to question a job or career move when it seems like most energy is devoted to making things appear other than what they really are.
~ Alan Watts
What is time for if not to bless?
~ Ann Voskamp
What reason has one for existing other than to be involved with what is actually being created in your particular time?
~ Antony Pay
You cannot chase a dollar and an ideal at the same time.
~ Austin O'Malley
There are certain inessential activities-moths of precious time-and it is worse to busy yourself with the trivial than to do nothing.
~ Baltasar Gracian
It's tough to go to sleep at night, and I wake up after five hours because I feel like I'm wasting time. I just sit up at night and think about what I can do next.
~ Dave Grohl
Oh, how precious is time, and how it pains me to see it slide away, while I do so little to any good purpose.
~ David Brainerd
I can't tell one from the other:I find you or you find me?There was a time before we were born If someone asks, this is where I'll be.
~ David Byrne
Stop spending your time; start investing your time.
~ Al Duncan
After all, time is not money. It is an opportunity to live before you die.
~ Donald C. Peattie
If you enjoyed the time you wasted, then it wasn't wasted time.
~ John Lennon
Do I wither up and disappear, or do I make the best of my time left?
~ Morrie Schwartz
Spend time doing things that matter.
~ Robin Sharma
Too often we become so consumed with how we spend our days that we lose track of how we are spending our lives.
~ Sally Warner
Knowledge isn't evil, in and of itself. It's what people choose to do with their knowledge that makes the difference. I think it matters what you want knowledge for . And what you're willing to sacrifice to get it.
~ Margaret Peterson Haddix
And this is why people believe in God, isn't it? Jonah wondered. Because we can tell there's something bigger out there that we're part of. Because we can tell that there's something more to all of us, and more to all of our lives.
~ Margaret Peterson Haddix
Hope doesn't mean anything... Action's the only thing that counts.
~ Margaret Peterson Haddix