My Purpose Quotes

The real joy in life comes from finding your true purpose and aligning it with what you do every single day.

The very purpose of life is to reach the highest possible flowering.

Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.

To me, the most unhappy people in the world are the people ... in Palm Beach- Going to parties every night. Playing golf every afternoon, then bridge. [They have] no purpose.

If one is not happy, one has lost the very purpose of life.

It is never until one realizes that one means something to others that one feels there is any point or purpose in one's own existence.

The purpose of poetry is to remind us how difficult it is to remain just one person, for our house is open, there are no keys in the doors, and invisible guests come in and out at will.

The only really happy people are those who have learned how to serve.

They say, Find a purpose in your life and live it. But, sometimes, it is only after you have lived that you recognize your life had a purpose, and likely one you never had in mind.

The purpose of Yoga is to facilitate the profound inner relaxation that accompanies fearlessness. The release from fear is what finally precipitates the full flowering of love.

I attribute my ability to maintain cool to God, self-esteem, and knowing my purpose in life. It can't be based on anything material or external.

As a rule I don't like suffering to no purpose. Suffering should be creative, should give birth to something good and lovely.

I don't know if I was put on this Earth for a purpose or not. But I'm fairly confident that I'll be taken off of it for one.

Years ago I used to commiserate with all people who suffered. Now I commiserate only with those who suffer in ignorance, who do not understand the purpose and ultimate utility of pain

It is important to ask yourself why you’re doing what you’re doing and what purpose it serves in the big picture.

People have to allow themselves to be used by God and Martin [Luther King, Jr.] committed himself totally to God's will and purpose and God is always waiting for someone who is willing to do that.

The purpose of science is not to cure us of our sense of mystery and wonder, but to constantly reinvent and reinvigorate it.

Anything can be achieved with a strong enough why!

Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose.

In order to please others, we loose our hold on our life's purpose.

Human life is something that comes to us from beyond this world, and the purpose of our society is to cherish it and to enable the individual to attain the highest achievement of which he is capable

I'm not saying that everything I did was right, but everything I did was for an honourable purpose.

My one purpose in life is to help people find a personal relationship with God, which, I believe, comes through knowing Christ.

Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.

Better service for the customer is for the good of the public, and this is the true purpose of enterprise.

I would much rather live a life of purpose than one in which I might have other things but not that.

The purpose of relationships is not happiness, but transformation.

I would say the universe has a purpose. It's not there just somehow by chance.

If you want to be happy, you have to be happy on purpose. When you wake up, you can't just wait to see what kind of day you'll have. You have to decide what kind of day you'll have.

Those who have failed to work toward the truth have missed the purpose of living.

My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad.

Granted that I must die, how shall I live?

Art has no purpose. It exists for its own sake.

Obedience is the psychological mechanism that links individual action to political purpose. It is the dispositional cement that binds men to systems of authority.

The nuclear bomb is the most useless weapon ever invented. It can be employed to no rational purpose. It is not even an effective defense against itself.

Healing comes when the individual remembers his or her identity—the purpose chosen in the world of ancestral wisdom—and reconnects with that world of Spirit.

I feel like in a world where we all try to figure out our place and our purpose here, your passions are one of your most obvious guides.

When purpose is not known, abuse is inevitable

The secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for.

My dear Excellency! I have not gone to war to collect cheese and eggs, but for another purpose.

God's purposes and plans will not fail. Before you spend all your prayer time telling Him about yours, ask about His.

What is the cause of all God's purposes towards us? Himself. There is no other cause.

When you align yourself with God's purpose as described in the Scriptures, something special happens to your life.

Power as is really divided, and as dangerously to all purposes, by sharing with another an Indirect Power, as a Direct one.

A throne is God's purpose for you; a cross is God's path for you; faith is God's plan for you.

Persistence is stubbornness with a purpose.

Before we go to our knees to receive the Baptism of Fire, let me beg of you to see to it that your souls are in harmony with the will and purpose of the Holy Spirit whom you seek.

Follow what you are genuinely passionate about and let that guide you to your destination.

One needs something to believe in, something for which one can have whole-hearted enthusiasm. One needs to feel that one's life has meaning, that one is needed in this world.

No idle word should be uttered. I understand a word to be idle when it serves no good purpose, either for myself or for another, and was not intended to do so.