Purpose
475 quotes: 68 by Keith Craft, 407 from other voices.
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- Intensity of desire will always find a way, just as weakness of purpose will always find an excuse.
- It is amazing how much we can endure when we are convinced there is a purpose to our struggle.
- It is for us, the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced.
- It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?
- It is not thy duty to complete the work, but neither art thou free to desist from it
- It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute, that gives meaning to our lives.
- It is the vain endeavour to make ourselves what we are not that has strewn history with so many broken purposes and lives left in the rough.
- It’s easy to confuse a lot of activity with a purposeful life.
- Just imagine that the purpose of your life is your happiness only – then life becomes a cruel and senseless thing […] The meaning of life is to serve the force that sent you into the world. Then life becomes a constant joy.
- Know why you’re in the fight to stay in the fight.
- Knowledge does not apply itself; we as individuals must make the application, and the application consists in fertilizing the thought with a living purpose.
- Labour, wide as the earth, has its summit in heaven.
- Let a man sanctify the Lord God in his heart and he can thereafter do no common act.
- Let every one ascertain his special business or calling, and then stick to it, if he would be successful.
- Let nothing come between you and the light.
- Let the world know why you’re here, and do it with passion.
- Let your dream devour your life, not your life devour your dream.
- Life becomes meaningful when you work on it. You are the only person who can make it meaningful for yourself.
- Life is about letting God use you for his purposes, not using him for your own purpose.
- Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
- Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.
- Life is not primarily a quest for pleasure, as Freud believed, or a quest for power, as Alfred Adler taught, but a quest for meaning. The greatest task for any person is to find meaning in his or her own life.
- Life is only meaningful when we are striving for a goal.
- Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it... Being alive is the meaning.
- Life isn’t supposed to be happy or fair. Life is supposed to be meaningful.
- Life takes on meaning when you become motivated, set goals and charge after them in an unstoppable manner.
- Life, to be worthy of a rational being, must be always in progression: we must always purpose to do more or better than in time past.
- Life without work is a bloom without fruit.
- Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’
- Living without an aim, is like sailing without a compass.
- Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.
- Love provides a person with the purpose of his life. Intellect shows him the means to achieve that purpose.
- Make that aim clear and back it up with persistence which does not recognize the word "impossible."
- Make your resolutions so clear and firm that nothing can lure you from your chosen path of purpose and duty.
- Make yourself necessary to somebody.
- Many men and women spend their lives in unsuccessful attempts to spin the flax God sends them upon a wheel they can never use.
- True happiness is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
- Meaning follows courage.
- Most of us have two lives. The life we live, and the unlived life within us. Between the two stands Resistance.
- Most of us live our lives by accident – we live it as it happens. Fulfillment comes when we live our lives on purpose.