Purpose Sayings and Quotes
Sayings about Purpose
The future belongs to those
who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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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 best way to cheer yourself
is to try to cheer someone else up.
- Mark Twain
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- Anonymous
Winners Dream Big Dreams.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)
"Hurry up" ranks right up there with "you need to"
as a destroyer of our humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent.
- Billy Sunday
To lead a great life:
Dream, Take Action, Repeat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The purpose of life is a life of purpose.
- Robert Byrne
Where there is no vision, there is no hope.
- George Washington Carver
Nothing happens unless first a dream.
- Carl Sandburg
The Main Thing is to Keep
The Main Thing The Main Thing.
- Stephen Covey
Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Our aspirations are our possibilities.
- Robert Browning
Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
- Albert Einstein
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important
as what you become by achieving your goals.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
Be resolute in your goals,
but flexible in your tactics.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You should not confuse your career with your life.
- Dave Barry
What power there is in our service when our actions
line up with our mission, skills and joy.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
No wind favors he who has no destined port.
- Montaigne
Whatever your life's work is, do it well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
March to the beat of your own drum.
- Proverb
Your work is to discover your world
and then with all your heart give yourself to it.
- The Buddha
The miracle is not that we do this work,
but that we are happy to do it.
- Mother Teresa
What you are is God's gift to you:
what you become is your gift to god.
- Anthony Dalla Villa
The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The meaning of Life is whatever we Choose.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Begin each day as if it were on purpose.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
You will never find time for anything.
If you want time you must make it.
- Charles Buxton
Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.
- John F. Kennedy
One man with courage makes a majority.
- old saying probably repeated by Andrew Jackson
(falsely attributed to Jefferson)
Only put off until tomorrow
what you are willing to die having left undone.
- Pablo Picasso
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
The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives,
everything he does becomes tainted.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The indispensable first step to getting
the things you want out of life is this:
Decide what you want.
- Ben Stein
Humility is not thinking less of yourself,
it's thinking of yourself less.
- Rick Warren (author of The Purpose Driven(R) Life)
I will act as if what I do makes a difference.
- William James
We ourselves feel that what we are doing
is just a drop in the ocean.
But the ocean would be less
because of that missing drop.
- Mother Teresa
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for,
he isn't fit to live.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
If you don't know what you want, you will probably never get it.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Going nowhere faster will not get you somewhere.
- Alan Cohen
A hero is someone who has given his life to
something bigger than himself
or something other than himself.
- Joseph Campbell
Opening my mind to Spirit, I trust my intuition to deliver
powerful visions of my inspired future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Without deep reflection,
one knows from daily life
that one exists for other people.
- Albert Einstein
The most pathetic person in the world
is someone who has sight, but has no vision.
- Helen Keller
If a man does not know what port he is steering for,
no wind is favorable to him.
- Seneca
Only those who have learned the power
of sincere and selfless contribution
experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.
- Tony Robbins
The purpose of human life is to serve,
and to show compassion and the will to help others.
- Albert Schweitzer
Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing
a human being to a purpose.
- Albert Schweitzer
The only ones among you who will be really happy
are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer
It is never too late to become what you might have been.
- George Eliot
No individual has any right to come into the world
and go out of it without leaving something behind.
- George Washington Carver
The highest reward for a person's toil
is not what they get for it,
but what they become by it.
- John Ruskin
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
What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us;
what we have done for others and the world
remains and is immortal.
- Albert Pike
If a man does not keep pace with his companions,
perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
- Henry David Thoreau
Success demands singleness of purpose.
- Vince Lombardi
Let there be no purpose in friendship
save the deepening of the spirit.
- Khalil Gibran
Service is the rent we pay for being.
It is the very purpose of life,
and not something you do in your spare time.
- Marion Wright Edelman
The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive,
but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
Nearly everything you do is of no importance,
but it is important that you do it.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
- Benjamin Disraeli
People are not lazy.
They simply have impotent goals -
that is, goals that do not inspire them.
- Tony Robbins
As far as we can discern,
the sole purpose of human existence
is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
- Carl Jung
No one saves us but ourselves.
No one can and no one may.
We ourselves must walk the path.
- The Buddha
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority,
it is time to pause and reflect.
- Mark Twain
Our prime purpose in this life is to help others.
And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Questioning cultural norms opens new vistas of happiness and purpose.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I strive toward my vision,
while accepting gratefully whatever life offers me.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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