Purpose
475 quotes: 68 by Keith Craft, 407 from other voices.
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- We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But if the drop was not in the ocean, I think the ocean would be less because of the missing drop.
- We should be ashamed to die until we've made some major contribution to humankind.
- We were not sent into this world to do anything into which we cannot put our hearts.
- We won't be distracted by comparison if we're captivated with purpose.
- We’re here to put a dent in the universe. Otherwise, why else even be here?
- What can resist an unshakeable purpose? What can stand against it or turn it aside? Inert matter yields to a living force, and circumstance succumbs to the power of purpose.
- What is the point of being alive if you don’t at least try to do something remarkable?
- What is thy art? To be good.
- What is to give light must endure burning.
- What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.
- What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for a worthwhile goal, a freely chosen task.
- What men want is not talent; it is purpose.
- What to do with your one life? The same thing you would do if you had two lives, and this were the second.
- What we do is less than a drop in the ocean. But if it were missing, the ocean would lack something.
- What we do without a purpose begrudgingly, with a purpose becomes a delight, and no work is well done nor healthily done which is not enthusiastically done.
- What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.
- What you get by reaching your goals is not nearly so important as what you become by reaching them.
- Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
- What’s yours? How will you serve the world? What do they need that your talent can provide? That’s all you have to figure out.
- When a man can’t find meaning, he distracts himself with pleasure.
- When a man does not know what harbour he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
- When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.
- When the promise is clear, the price gets easy
- When the why gets stronger, the how gets easier.
- When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live life.
- When we know what we want, however, and proceed to work for it with all the power and ability that is in us, we may rest assured that we will get it.
- When you catch a glimpse of your potential, that’s when passion is born.
- When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
- When you die and go to heaven our maker is not going to ask, 'why didn't you discover the cure for such and such? why didn't you become the Messiah?' The only question we will be asked in that precious moment is 'why didn't you become you?'
- When you feel like giving up, remember why you held on for so long in the first place.
- When you have a Clear purpose, you won't have time for negativity
- When you have a strong enough why, every type of adversity becomes irrelevant.
- When you know clearly what you want, you'll wake up every morning excited about life.
- When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.
- Whenever anything is being accomplished, it is being done, I have learned, by a monomaniac with a mission.
- Wherever we see a great human life in progress, in the production of notable results, we may always know that there is something within it which drives it, —a motive-power.
- Wherever you are, be all there. Live to the hilt every situation you believe to be the will of God.
- Whether a life is noble or ignoble depends not on the calling which is adopted, but on the spirit in which it is followed.
- Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark.Henri-Frédéric AmielSourced
- Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility.