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Quotes About Purpose

A life isn't significant except for its impact on other lives.
~ Jackie Robinson
The life of the arts, far from being an interruption, a distraction, in the life of the nation, is close to the center of a nation's purpose - and is a test to the quality of a nation's civilization.
~ John F. Kennedy
The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will
~ Charles Dickens
If you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living.
~ Joseph Campbell
Fix your course to a star and you can navigate through any storm
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Why stay we on earth except to grow?
~ Robert Browning
The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to live with purpose.
~ Michel de Montaigne
This is the true joy in life the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap.
~ George Bernard Shaw
He who has a why to live can bear with almost any how.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
I only hope that He will let me preach to those who have never heard that name Jesus. What else is worthwhile in this life? I have heard of nothing better. 'Lord, send me!'
~ Jim Elliot
If you want to have a life that is worth living, a life that expresses your deepest feelings and emotions and cares and dreams, you have to fight for it.
~ Alice Walker
God gave us the gift of life it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.
~ Voltaire
I believe that God put us in this jolly world to be happy and enjoy life.
~ Robert Baden-Powell
The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.
~ Socrates
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
~ Francis Bacon
Happiness is the only thing worth fighting for in your life.
~ Lilly Singh
If you have not taken the time to define what happiness means to you, what have your spent your whole life pursuing?
~ Bo Bennett
It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.
~ Hugo Black
For me, architecture is the means, not the end. It's a means of making different life forms possible.
~ Bjarke Ingels
Architecture is the story of how we see ourselves. It is the architect's job to service everyday life.
~ Thom Mayne
I am a firm believer that God has already ordered the things that have taken place in my life... and I'm just learning to follow the path he's laid before me.
~ Monica Denise Brown
Decide who you are and what your goals entail - then go for the roses. Life has little regard for those who waste time.
~ Jon Huntsman, Sr.
For every dancer, no matter how amazing your career, there's more to life than ballet. Being adored by your audience, it's only part of the story.
~ Darcey Bussell
What's amazing when you get up and do something is what God does in your life. We just have to get up and do something.
~ Tim Tebow