Quotes About Purpose

It was, however, in keeping with the way my uncle conducted his life that he should reach his destination without knowing the name of the goal.

This ideal conception?that one should have an aim in life?had, indeed, only too often occurred to me as an unsolved problem; but I was still far from deciding what form my endeavours should ultimately take.

That was a good straightforward point of view, no pretence that games were anything but an outlet for power and aggression; no stuff about their being enjoyable as such. You played a game to demonstrate that you did it better than someone else. If it came to that, I thought how few people do anything for its own sake, from making love to practising the arts.

The education of the will is the end of human life.

It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute ... that gives meaning to our lives.

A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

How am I going to live today in order to create the tomorrow I'm committed to?

You are now at a crossroads. This is your opportunity to make the most important decision you will ever make. Forget your past. Who are you now? Who have you decided you really are now? Don't think about who you have been. Who are you now? Who have you decided to become? Make this decision consciously. Make it carefully. Make it powerfully. ~

Every man dies. Not every man lives.

1. What do I really want? (Vision.) 2. What is important about it? (Values.) 3. How will I get it? (Methods.) 4. What is preventing me from having it? (Obstacles.) 5. How will I know I am successful? (Measurements.)

The great end of life is not knowledge but action." —Thomas Henry Huxley

Belief #6: Work is play. Do you know any person who has achieved massive success by doing what he hates? I don't. One of the keys to success is making a successful marriage between what you do and what you love. Pablo Picasso once said, "When I work, I relax; doing nothing or entertaining visitors makes me tired." Maybe

Man is born to live and not to prepare to live." —BORIS PASTERNAK

The three decisions that control your destiny are: 1. Your decisions about what to focus on. 2. Your decisions about what things mean to you. 3. Your decisions about what to do to create the results you desire.

They think that everything happens for a reason, and it serves them. They believe that every adversity contains the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit. I can guarantee you

Much of our life is guided by the beliefs we develop over the course of time; the story we create about what life's about, how we're supposed to be, what we're supposed to do or give.

You can use your story, or your story can use you.

As the fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts." —THE BUDDHA

Belief #6: Work is play.

Everything we do, we do for a reason.

The real joy in life comes from finding your true purpose and aligning it with what you do every single day.

If you don't make decisions about how you're going to live, then you've already made a decision, haven't you? You're making a decision to be directed by the environment instead of shaping your own destiny.

I've found that 20 percent of any change is knowing how; but 80 percent is knowing why. If

Nothing can resist the human will that will stake even its existence on its stated purpose." —BENJAMIN DISRAELI