My Purpose Quotes

Renewal is not just innovation and change. It is also the process of bringing the results of change into line with our purposes.

This is God's universal purpose for all Christian suffering: more contentment in God and less satisfaction in the world.

I always wondered if there was a purpose to the universe, if there was a plan, if there was some sort of organizing factor, hopefully that I played a role in.

The example my parents set, both in and outside of our household, helped me understand that we all have a specific purpose in life--to give back to society.

My purpose is to entertain and please myself. I feel that if I am entertained, then there will be enough other readers who will be entertained, too.

There is a plan to this universe. There is a high intelligence, maybe even a purpose, but it's given to us on the installment plan.

Each soul must accomplish its task, or it would not have been sent here.

We cannot fulfill that purpose [environmentalism] if we are heaping contempt on God's creation.

Atheism in its negation of gods is at the same time the strongest affirmation of man, and through man, the eternal yea to life, purpose, and beauty.

Purpose is stronger than object.

The man who built the manger had a purpose in mind... God had another. You'll never know how far reaching God's plan is for your work.

Strong lives are those that are marked by a sense of purpose, connectedness, resilience, and fulfillment.

Your lot in life? A lot is something you draw, like straws. It's chance. You didn't get this life by chance. You chose it on purpose. If you're dissatisfied from it, you can change it.

To be happy is not the purpose for which you are placed in this world.

We are all equal in the sense that no man must mean - must be - the means for the purposes of another man; but each individual is an end in itself.

'The Purpose-Driven Life' is not just a mega-bestselling work of Christian faith; it is the thing that every voter, secular or not, yearns for.

Focus not on what he or she does, but on keeping to your higher purpose. Your own purpose should seek harmony with nature itself. For this is the true road to freedom.

We throw away what we could have been and waste our opportunities. We each have a purpose, a destiny, and to realize it, we must reach beyond what we think we are capable of.

The power of hope! Even a lack of ambition can, for a time, pay off as a necessary facet, as long as hope outweighs it.

I'd rather be single, happy, and lonely sometimes than married, lonely, and happy sometimes.

One is often so busy doing life that it is easy to avoid evaluating whether you are putting your energy in the direction you value most.

Faithfulness imparts God's reason for all circumstances. No matter what the world says, losing is no longer an option.

With life. Rooter says that life is how God gives purpose to the universe.

There's sometimes a tugging feeling you get to push further when you aren't being challenged enough or when things get too comfortable.

It is not true that everyone is special. It is true that everyone was once special and still possesses the ability to recover it.

In Maycomb, if one went for a walk with no definite purpose in mind, it was correct to believe one's mind incapable of definite purpose.

Wasn’t hitting bottom the thing you had to do to knock some sense into yourself? Wasn’t hitting bottom the thing that showed you which way was up?

All pursuits are pointless and fruitless unless and until love and compassion are found and then are the foundation and destination of all you do

To ask, 'How do you do it?' is already starting off on the wrong foot. When reaching for the stars, there does not have to be a 'how' if there is a big enough 'why'.

The artist lives to have stories to tell and to learn to tell them well.

They who reach down into the depths of life where, in the stillness, the voice of God is heard, have the stabilizing power which carries them poised and serene through the hurricane of difficulties.

Unlike wealth, there is an infinite value in legacy.

Women show men beauty in things beyond their ambitions. Women tell men to stop and smell the roses.

I think as a young actress, it's very rare that you read something where you're not either 'the girl' or there to serve some romantic purpose in a male dominated cast.

Part of him wanted to weep... but his purpose was rigid within him. He felt he could not bend to gentleness without breaking.

It may be true that the only reason the comic book industry now exists is for this purpose, to create characters for movies, board games and other types of merchandise.

Each of us must pay for the slightest damage he inflicts upon a universe created for indifference and stagnation, sooner or later, he will regret not having left it intact.

Man was created to glorify God. Now, that may encompass other things which God has planned for each man, but essentially, man was created to glorify God.

We are given to the great, for great purpose, to great ends. We are given to the grave, for grave purposes, to grave ends.

Find a purpose to serve, not a lifestyle to live.

Look, the job of life is to turn your negatives into positives

True leadership is an attitude that naturally inspires and motivates others, and it comes from an internalized discovery about yourself.

The purpose of a spiritual discipline is to give us a way to stop the war, not by our force of will, but organically, through understanding an gradual training.

God loves atheists. The former ones make the most compelling theists because they're so empirically familiar with how atheists think.

If one should criticize one should always have a meaningful explanation to accompany.

Let our information and social technologies raise awareness and not propaganda, build connections and not passive-aggression.

You want to make sure that your purpose is something people can benefit from long after you're gone.

Grabbing readers by the imagination is a writer's job.

There was no logic or any sense of purpose except that I knew I had to do something other than what I was doing, or I might not make it through this.

A part of me genuinely wanted to be the worst because I was so sick of everyone fighting to be the best.