Quotes About Purpose

The vital straining towards an ideal, definite but latent, when it dominates a whole life, may express that ideal more fully than could the best chosen words.

If you at least try to do the things that excite you, it will make you a more expansive and present person - you'll feel, at the end of your life, that at least you took the shot.

Our business is with life, not death.

The only thing that lives beyond the grave is the wake you have created by the way you have lived your life; the goals you have set; the distance away from the normal you dared to tread.

... books are too heterogeneous an interest to furnish a vital one in life, a reason for being alive.

When a person has found something which he prefers to life itself, he for the first time has begun to live.

I'm not a potato sack; I've never sat on my couch. If I'm home, I'm cleaning, feeding my dogs, doing stuff. Life is too precious to waste time.

That's the problem with being alive ... You've got to keep thinking of what to do.

Just because life's meaningless doesn't mean we can't experience it meaningfully.

Life's too short not to enjoy what you're working on.

Life's two most important questions are Why? and Why not? The trick is knowing which one to ask.

Art is too long, and life is too short.

Once I started the first school, I realized this is what my life is meant to be, is to promote education and help kids go to school and that's very clear.

Plant the seed, set the target, live your life.

Music is something I must do, business is something I need to do, and Africa is something I have to do. That's the way it breaks down in my life.

One doesn't expect justice from life ... it's the function of human beings to put it there.

There is too much life to be lived for you to hit the snooze button. In fact, I believe it is 'seize the day', not 'snooze the day!'

In Life We Can Have Results or Reasons.

Most human activities are predicated on the assumption that life goes on. If you take that premise away, what is there left?

In his own way, he's lived life with all the intensity he could muster.

I don't really have a plan. I've lived a very big life, and I don't feel my age, and I feel like I was born to be a mother.

There's only one story, the story of your life.

To know where one is going and what one wishes - this is order ... to organize one's life to distribute one's time ... all this belong to and is included in the word order.

Life is not entertainment. Life is not distraction.