Purpose Quotes and Sayings
Quotes about Purpose

The future belongs to those
who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)

The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

The purpose of human life is to serve,
and to show compassion and the will to help others.
- Albert Schweitzer

If not us, who, if not now, when?
- Anonymous

The Main Thing is to Keep
The Main Thing The Main Thing.
- Stephen Covey

"Hurry up" ranks right up there with "you need to"
as a destroyer of our humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

To live is to choose. But to choose well,
you must know who you are and what you stand for,
where you want to go and why you want to get there.
- Kofi Annan

Winners Dream Big Dreams.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent.
- Billy Sunday

The most pathetic person in the world
is someone who has sight, but has no vision.
- Helen Keller

Our aspirations are our possibilities.
- Robert Browning

Going nowhere faster will not get you somewhere.
- Alan Cohen

Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose.
- Leonardo da Vinci

Whatever your life's work is, do it well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

The purpose of life is a life of purpose.
- Robert Byrne

The meaning of Life is whatever we Choose.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The indispensable first step to getting
the things you want out of life is this:
Decide what you want.
- Ben Stein

What you are is God's gift to you:
what you become is your gift to god.
- Anthony Dalla Villa

The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives,
everything he does becomes tainted.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Only those who have learned the power
of sincere and selfless contribution
experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.
- Tony Robbins

If a man does not keep pace with his companions,
perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
- Henry David Thoreau

Where are you going? Where does your path lead?
You can never know the future, yet wandering aimlessly
is unlikely to be the source of a fulfilling life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The only ones among you who will be really happy
are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important
as what you become by achieving your goals.
- Henry David Thoreau

I will act as if what I do makes a difference.
- William James

The way you get meaning into your life
is to devote yourself to loving others,
devote yourself to your community around you,
and devote yourself to creating something
that gives you purpose and meaning
- Mitch Albom

Humility is not thinking less of yourself,
it's thinking of yourself less.
- Rick Warren (author of The Purpose Driven(R) Life)

The law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world.
To be effective it demands the sacrifice
of the bravest and the most spotless.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

If you don't know what you want, you will probably never get it.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

One man with courage makes a majority.
- old saying probably repeated by Andrew Jackson
(falsely attributed to Jefferson)

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.
- George Washington Carver

The probability that we may fail
in the struggle ought not to deter us
from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
- Abraham Lincoln

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
- Albert Einstein

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for,
he isn't fit to live.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Nothing happens unless first a dream.
- Carl Sandburg

The very nature of the world is constant change.
You set a goal and create a plan to achieve it;
then the assumptions on which you
based your plan change - they always do.
The challenge is to retain your goals
while adapting your tactics.
Relax and stay flexible in order to reach
your goals and maintain your happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

What power there is in our service when our actions
line up with our mission, skills and joy.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing
was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
- Margaret Mead

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,
committed people can change the world.
Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
- Margaret Mead

It is never too late to become what you might have been.
- George Eliot

Money has never made man happy, nor will it,
there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness.
The more of it one has the more one wants.
- Benjamin Franklin

Be resolute in your goals,
but flexible in your tactics.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Only put off until tomorrow
what you are willing to die having left undone.
- Pablo Picasso

The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive,
but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger

You will never find time for anything.
If you want time you must make it.
- Charles Buxton

When we come into the present,
we begin to feel the life around us again,
but we also encounter whatever we have been avoiding.
We must have the courage to face whatever is present -
our pain, our desires, our grief,
our loss, our secret hopes our love -
everything that moves us most deeply.
- Jack Kornfield

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority,
it is time to pause and reflect.
- Mark Twain

If you have found your truth within yourself
there is nothing more in this whole existence to find.
- Osho

I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know:
the only ones among you who will be really happy
are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer

Resilience is about believing in yourself,
and trusting your own wisdom rather than
being swayed by the opinions of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Nearly everything you do is of no importance,
but it is important that you do it.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

People are not lazy.
They simply have impotent goals -
that is, goals that do not inspire them.
- Tony Robbins

No individual has any right to come into the world
and go out of it without leaving something behind.
- George Washington Carver

If one advances confidently
in the direction of his dreams,
and endeavors to live
the life which he has imagined,
he will meet with success
unexpected in common hours.
- Henry David Thoreau

When you dance, your purpose is not to get
to a certain place on the floor.
It's to enjoy each step along the way.
- Wayne Dyer

March to the beat of your own drum.
- Proverb

If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely.
It is absolutely touch and go.
Each one of us could make the difference.
- R. Buckminster Fuller

The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

The highest reward for a person's toil
is not what they get for it,
but what they become by it.
- John Ruskin

No wind favors he who has no destined port.
- Montaigne

It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants.
The question is: What are we busy about?
- Henry David Thoreau

Without deep reflection,
one knows from daily life
that one exists for other people.
- Albert Einstein

If a man does not know what port he is steering for,
no wind is favorable to him.
- Seneca

If a man loses pace with his companions,
perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
Let him step to the music which he hears,
however measured or far away.
- Henry David Thoreau

Only one who devotes himself to a cause
with his whole strength and soul
can be a true master.
For this reason mastery demands all of a person.
- Albert Einstein

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
- Benjamin Disraeli

What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea.
It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience,
something that never has been and never could
have been experienced by anyone else.
- Joseph Campbell

Do you have a plan for your life?
If not, allocate some time today to sit quietly
with pen and paper to begin writing your life plan -
what you want to accomplish with your life,
and what projects will support your goals.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Never give up on the most important goals in your life.
Never give up on your life purpose.
Never give up on your core values.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

True happiness... is not attained
through self-gratification,
but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
- Helen Keller

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