Purpose Quotes
76 quotations about Purpose
I just wake up and say, You're a bum, go do something worthwhile today.
The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
If you don't stand up for something, you may fall for anything.
You have to know what is right for you and go after it regardless of what others say.
Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.
What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.
Each of our acts makes a statement as to our purpose.
The purpose of man is in action not thought.
The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do.
Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
I live for my sons. I would be lost without them.
Nothing can resist the human will that will stake even its existence on its stated purpose.
The secret to success is constancy to purpose.
A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.
The secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for.
What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.
Men achieve a certain greatness unawares, when working to another aim.
Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by unfolding of his powers.
Be the business never so painful, you may have it done for money.
It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.
What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.
A purpose you impart is no longer your own.
Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.
Authors on Purpose
Garth Brooks
John Mason Brown
Les Brown
Buddha
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
Leo Buscaglia
Thomas Carlyle
Pablo Casals
William Cowper
Princess of Wales Diana
Benjamin Disraeli
Fyodor Dostoevsky
George Eliot
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Viktor E. Frankl
Erich Fromm
Thomas Fuller
Andre Gide
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Dag Hammarskjold