Purpose
475 quotes: 68 by Keith Craft, 407 from other voices.
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- A soul occupied with great ideas best performs small duties.
- A useless life is an early death.
- A vigorous purpose makes much out of little, breathes power into weak instruments, disarms difficulties, and even turns them into assistances. Every condition has means of progress, if we have spirit enough to use them.
- Above all we must realize that each of us makes a difference with our life. Each of us impacts the world around us every single day. We have a choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place - or not to bother
- Activity without purpose is the drain of your life.
- After acquiring true knowledge of himself, I know of nothing so valuable to a young man as an absolute distinctness of purpose, and then pursuing that purpose to success.
- Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
- All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused.
- All true Work is sacred; in all true Work, were it but true hand-labour, there is something of divineness.
- Ambition is but the evil shadow of aspiration.
- As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold its great proportions.
- As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.
- Ask not that the journey be easy; ask instead that it be worth it.
- At its core, the idea of purpose is the idea that what we do matters to people other than ourselves.
- At that point in life where your talent meets the needs of the world, that is where God wants you to be.
- Attention paid to noise is focus stolen from purpose.
- Be determined to get up, to reach the highest goal you have in view, and you will.
- Be inspired with the belief that life is a great and noble calling; not a mean and groveling thing that we are to shuffle through as we can, but an elevated and lofty destiny.
- Be sure to set meaningful goals for yourself when designing the life you want to live. Your quality of life will depend on the dreams you create for yourself, so dive in and make it count.
- Before you can win your heart’s desire, you’ve got to get clearly fixed in your mind’s eye what it is that you want.
- Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
- But to slide, glide, drift, loll, dawdle, with no definite objective point in mind, is to arrive at the point of Nowhere and to have your craft lie hopelessly becalmed on Mud Flats.
- Chase your passion, not your pension.
- Childhood may do without a grand purpose, but manhood cannot.
- Commitment to great causes makes great men.
- Create meaning by caring for others.
- Desire that your life count for something great! Long for your life to have eternal significance. Want this! Don’t coast through life without a passion.
- Discover your divine assignment and you have no reason to retreat. Discover your passion and you laugh in the face of defeat.Kirk NugentSourced
- Do not compare, do not measure. No other way is like yours. All other ways deceive and tempt you. You must fulfill the way that is in you.
- Do not, for one repulse, forego the purpose that you resolved to effect.
- Do what you love and the money will follow.
- Doing what you were born to do… That’s the way to be happy.
- Don’t aim at success—the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself.
- Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
- 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 are alive.
- Don't cheat the world of your contribution. Give it what you've got.
- Dream is not that you see in the sleep; dream is that does not allow you to sleep.
- Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered; it is something molded.Antoine de Saint ExupérySourced
- Earnestness alone makes life eternity.
- Effort and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.