Purpose Quotes

Living has yet to be generally recognized as one of the arts.

Distrust compassion; prefer dignity for yourself and others.

It’s never too late to give up what you are doing, and start doing what you realise you love.

Find a purpose in life so big it will challenge every capacity to be at your best.

“I'm just looking as always for something that's stimulating and I hope to find a good story that's a challenge, whether it's big or small. Or that it finds me. I don't have like a career plan. Maybe I should, but I don't.”

I think it’s part of the nature of man to start with romance and build to a reality.

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

People were meant to be loved
Stuff was meant to be used
The reason why we're so unhappy is because
People are being used and
Stuff is being loved.

We said our dreams would carry us, and if they don't fly we will run. Now we push right pass to find out how to win what they all lost. We know now we want more - a life worth fighting for.

Issues that fester in your head is like a compost pile. You can either feed it or let it turn into rich soil which is the foundation of wonderful things to grow with.

I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be compassionate. It is, above all, to matter and to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all.”

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.”

We must be willing to let go of the
life we have planned, so as to have the life
that is waiting for us.

Spend your life doing what you love.
Be focused and disciplined.
Collaborate.

Looking good isn't important, it's everything.

Don’t ask yourself what the world needs; ask
yourself what makes you come alive. And then
go and do that. Because what the world needs is
people who have come alive.

What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do. When we do what we are meant to do, money comes to us, doors open for us, we feel useful, and the work we do feels like play to us.

Begin each day as if it were on purpose.

In other words, it is questions with no answers that set the limits of human possibilities, describe the boundaries of human existence.

Our first concern must be to live while we're alive... to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are.