Quotes About Purpose

He had come to that moment in his age when there occurred to him, with increasing intensity, a question of such overwhelming simplicity that he had no means to face it. He found himself wondering if his life were worth the living; if it had ever been. It was a question, he suspected, that came to all men at one time or another; he wondered if it came to them with such impersonal force as it came to him. The

They walked with some purpose, yet without particular hurry

pag.36 You must remeber what you are and what you have chosen to become, and the significance of what you are doing. There are wars and defeats and victories of the human race that are not military and that are not recorded in the annals of history. Remeber that while tou're trying to decide what to do.

You must remember what you are and what you have chosen to become, and the significance of what you are doing. There are wars and defeats and victories of the human race that are not military and that are not recorded in the annals of history. Remember that while you're trying to decide what to do.

Hij begreep dat hij in die toekomst zou veranderen, maar hij zag de toekomst zelf als het instrument van verandering en niet als het doel ervan.

The Church has no reason to exist except for the advancement of His Kingdom into areas it has never been before!

Don't mistake activity with achievement.

I always tried to make clear that basketball is not the ultimate. It is of small importance in comparison to the total life we live. There is only one kind of life that truly wins, and that is the one that places faith in the hands of the Savior. Until that is done, we are on an aimless course that runs in circles and goes nowhere.

Don't mistake activity with achievement.

Don't let making a living prevent you from making a life.

asked. 'Just that mere existence is not enough. One exists by barter. One lives by giving – and taking.' 'I

Self-pity and a sense of high tragedy are going to build nothing at all. So we had better throw them out at once, for it is builders that we must become.

Knowing makes all the difference... It's the difference between just trying to keep alive, and having something to live for

Blame has no purpose, and it is a lousy teacher.

I don't want to be overly dramatic about it, but I think people more and more wonder, is this living, or are we just going through the motions? What's happening? Is everything being leached out of life? Is the whole texture and values and everything kind of draining away?

What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motions of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason.

Success for a woman means absolute surrender, in whatever direction. Whether she paints a picture, or loves a man, there is no division of labor possible in her economy. To the attainment of any end worth living for, a symmetrical sacrifice of her nature is compulsory upon her.

She was never so petty. She did not dabble with minnows at the surface when there were thirty-pound salmon swimming deeper down.

That is all I want in life: for this pain to seem purposeful.

Can't you see that it doesn't matter what the world thinks if you've done your work the best you knew how to do?

It isn't where you came from; it's where you're going that counts.

It isn't where you came frome; it's where you're going that counts.

'Tis the set of the sail that decides the goal, and not the storm of life

To possess character is to be useful, and to be useful is to be independent, and to be useful and independent, is to be happy, even in the midst of sorrow; for sorrow is not necessarily unhappiness.