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Great minds have purposes others have wishes.
- Washington Irving
Related topics: Wisdom
We're so engaged in doing things
to achieve purposes of outer value
that we forget the inner value,
the rapture that is associated
with being alive, is what it is all about.
- Joseph Campbell
The Science of Mind is intensely practical
because it teaches us how to use
the Mind Principle for definite purposes,
such as helping those who are sick, impoverished, or unhappy.
- Ernest Holmes
Is the system going to flatten you out
and deny you your humanity,
or are you going to be able to make use of the system
to the attainment of human purposes?
- Joseph Campbell
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The future belongs to those
who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
The Main Thing is to Keep
The Main Thing The Main Thing.
- Stephen Covey
Winners Dream Big Dreams.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The purpose of life is a life of purpose.
- Robert Byrne
"Hurry up" ranks right up there with "you need to"
as a destroyer of our humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The best way to cheer yourself
is to try to cheer someone else up.
- Mark Twain
If not us, who, if not now, when?
- Anonymous
To lead a great life:
Dream, Take Action, Repeat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent.
- Billy Sunday
If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)
Nothing happens unless first a dream.
- Carl Sandburg
Where there is no vision, there is no hope.
- George Washington Carver
Find a time and place of solitude.
Look into the distance, and into the future.
Visualize the tomorrow you are going to build -
and begin to build that tomorrow, today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose.
- Leonardo da Vinci
You should not confuse your career with your life.
- Dave Barry
Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
- Albert Einstein
No wind favors he who has no destined port.
- Montaigne
Be resolute in your goals,
but flexible in your tactics.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What you are is God's gift to you:
what you become is your gift to god.
- Anthony Dalla Villa
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
Whatever your life's work is, do it well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Our aspirations are our possibilities.
- Robert Browning
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important
as what you become by achieving your goals.
- Henry David Thoreau
What power there is in our service when our actions
line up with our mission, skills and joy.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Your work is to discover your world
and then with all your heart give yourself to it.
- The Buddha
March to the beat of your own drum.
- Proverb
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
The miracle is not that we do this work,
but that we are happy to do it.
- Mother Teresa
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 quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
You will never find time for anything.
If you want time you must make it.
- Charles Buxton
No individual has any right to come into the world
and go out of it without leaving something behind.
- George Washington Carver
The purpose of human life is to serve,
and to show compassion and the will to help others.
- Albert Schweitzer
Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed,
and in such desperate enterprises?
If a man does not keep pace with his companions,
perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
- Henry David Thoreau
Without deep reflection,
one knows from daily life
that one exists for other people.
- Albert Einstein
Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing
a human being to a purpose.
- Albert Schweitzer
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
One man with courage makes a majority.
- old saying probably repeated by Andrew Jackson
(falsely attributed to Jefferson)
Resilience is about believing in yourself,
and trusting your own wisdom rather than
being swayed by the opinions of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The most pathetic person in the world
is someone who has sight, but has no vision.
- Helen Keller
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
If a man does not know what port he is steering for,
no wind is favorable to him.
- Seneca
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for,
he isn't fit to live.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
If a man does not keep pace with his companions,
perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
- Henry David Thoreau
The highest reward for a person's toil
is not what they get for it,
but what they become by it.
- John Ruskin
The only ones among you who will be really happy
are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer
A hero is someone who has given his life to
something bigger than himself
or something other than himself.
- Joseph Campbell
The meaning of Life is whatever we Choose.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
Whatever you do or don't do in your lifetime,
your best contribution to those around you
and to future generations
will be in the happiness and joy
you generated and radiated to those around you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You can have anything you want -
if you want it badly enough.
You can be anything you want to be,
do anything you set out to accomplish
if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.
- Abraham Lincoln
The important thing is this: to be able, at any moment,
to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.
- Charles Du Bos (1882-1939), from his book Approximations (1922)
(not Charles DuBois or Maharishi Mahesh Yogi)
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
Begin each day as if it were on purpose.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Success demands singleness of purpose.
- Vince Lombardi
Only put off until tomorrow
what you are willing to die having left undone.
- Pablo Picasso
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
If you don't know what you want, you will probably never get it.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.
- John F. Kennedy
The indispensable first step to getting
the things you want out of life is this:
Decide what you want.
- Ben Stein
Going nowhere faster will not get you somewhere.
- Alan Cohen
With realization of one's own potential and
self-confidence in one's ability,
one can build a better world.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
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
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