Purpose
475 quotes: 68 by Keith Craft, 407 from other voices.
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- Realize your inexhaustible power, then patiently apply it to a great and worthy purpose.
- Reflect that life, like every other blessing, derives its value from its use alone.
- Remember why you started, remember where you're headed, think of how great it will be to get there, and keep going.
- Resolved, To live with all my might, while I do live.
- Retire from your job but never from meaningful projects.
- Retirement can be... a rocking chair or a launching pad.
- Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life.
- Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life and not something you do in your spare time.
- Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.
- Set out to build a company and make a contribution, not an empire and a fortune.
- Set yourself earnestly to see what you are made to do, and then set yourself earnestly to do it.
- Sing the song that only you can sing, write the book that only you can write, build the product that only you can build… live the life that only you can live.
- Slow down and enjoy life. It’s not only the scenery you miss by going too fast – you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.
- Some people around you will not understand your journey. They don’t need to; it’s not for them.
- Somebody needs what you have to give.
- Strong reasons make strong actions.
- Success is the progressive realization of a worthy ideal.
- Success, like happiness, is the unexpected side effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself.
- Suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning.
- Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?
- That life is long which answers life's great end.
- The ambitious deceive themselves when they propose an end to their ambition; for that end, when attained, becomes a means.
- The answer is simply that you have never focused your desires into one great dominating desire.
- The artist's vocation is to send light into the depths of the human heart.
- The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals.
- The bigger the “why” the easier the “how.
- The church does not exist for us. We are the church, and we exist for the world.
- The crucial thing is to find a truth which is truth for me, to find the idea for which I am willing to live and die.
- The desire must ripen into purpose and effort; and one energetic attempt is worth a thousand aspirations.
- The earnestness of life is the only passport to the satisfaction of life.
- The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.
- The first step to becoming what God made you to be is to stop worrying about what others want you to be.
- The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
- The grand essentials of happiness are, something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
- The great rule of life is to have no schemes but one unalterable purpose.
- The greatest tragedy is not death, but life without purpose.
- The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
- The greatest work we will ever do will be within the walls of our home.
- The habit of working with a definite chief aim will breed in you the habit of prompt decision, and this habit will come to your aid in all that you do.
- The happiest people I know are not those who find their golden ticket; they are those who, while in pursuit of worthy goals, discover and treasure the beauty and sweetness of the everyday moments.