Purpose
475 quotes: 68 by Keith Craft, 407 from other voices.
Other voices on Purpose
- I don't believe in anti-anything. A man has to have a program; you have to be for something, otherwise you will never get anywhere.
- I don't want to have lived in vain like most people. I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to all people, even those I've never met. I want to go on living even after my death!
- I find out what the world needs. Then, I go ahead and invent it.
- I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.
- I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will that will stake even existence for its fulfilment.Benjamin DisraeliCommonly attributed
- I long to accomplish a great and noble task; but it is my chief duty and joy to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble.
- I preached as never sure to preach again, and as a dying man to dying men.
- I used to be afraid of failing at something that really mattered to me, but now I'm more afraid of succeeding at things that don't matter.
- I value all things only by the price they shall gain in eternity.
- I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
- I would be the least among men with dreams and the desire to fulfill them, rather than the greatest with no dreams and no desires.
- I would rather work with five people who really believe in what they are doing rather than five hundred who can't see the point.
- Ideals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the ocean desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.
- If God only used perfect people, He would have no one to use.
- If He asks much of you, it is because He knows you can give much.
- If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.
- If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.
- If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.
- If the primary aim of the captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.
- If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering.
- If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death human life cannot be complete.
- If we have our own why of life, we shall get along with almost any how.
- If we only do what we're familiar with, we might miss what we've been made for.
- If we possess our why of life we can put up with almost any how.
- If you are what you ought to be, you will set fire to all Italy, and not only yonder. (Letter 368 to Stefano Maconi)
- If you can see your path laid out in front of you step by step, you know it’s not your path. Your own path you make with every step you take. That’s why it’s your path.
- If you can’t figure out your purpose, figure out your passion. For your passion will lead you right into your purpose.T. D. JakesCommonly attributed
- If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle.
- If you live a useful life, that is a good life. A life worth having lived.
- If you want to feel connected to your own purpose, know this for certain: Your purpose will only be found in service to others, and in being connected to the something far greater than your mind/body/ego.
- If you want to find your direction in life, remove your misdirection.
- If you want to make the days of your life really matter, then you must love something.
- I’m convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You’ve got to find what you love.
- In order to be truly happy, you must live along with, and you must stand for something larger than yourself.
- In the long run men hit only what they aim at.
- In the quiet hours when we are alone and there is nobody to tell us what fine fellows we are, we come sometimes upon a moment in which we wonder, not how much money we are earning, nor how famous we have become, but what good we are doing.
- Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don't need to escape from.
- Intelligence strives to know the answer, wisdom strives to know why the answer matters.
- Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
- Intelligent people know how to get what they want. Wise people know what’s worth wanting.