Purpose
475 quotes: 68 by Keith Craft, 407 from other voices.
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- The important thing in life is to have a great aim, and to possess the aptitude and perseverance to attain it.
- The important thing is to strive towards a goal which is not immediately visible. That goal is not the concern of the mind, but of the spirit.
- The indomitable will, the inflexible purpose, will find a way or make one.
- The key to realizing a dream is to focus not on success but significance - and then even the small steps and little victories along your path will take on greater meaning.
- The latest Gospel in this world is, Know thy work and do it. 'Know thyself:' long enough has that poor 'self' of thine tormented thee; thou wilt never get to 'know' it, I believe!
- The man who makes decisions with a fixed purpose of carrying them out is, humanly speaking, unconquerable.
- The moment you accept God’s ordering, that moment your work ceases to be a task and becomes your calling; you pass from bondage to freedom, from the shadow-land of life into life itself.
- The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.
- The number one purpose in life, is to better oneself.
- The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
- The only way to do great work is to love what you do.
- The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking, and don’t settle.
- The planet does not need more successful people. The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers, and lovers of all kinds.
- The point is not what we expect from life, but rather what life expects from us.
- The power of desire when combined with faith becomes invincible.
- The power of using my limbs shall fail me before the power of being useful.
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- The purpose of human life is to serve and to show compassion and the will to help others.
- The purpose of life is a life of purpose.Robert ByrneCommonly attributed
- The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.
- The purpose of life is to discover your gift. The work of life is to develop it. The meaning of life is to give your gift away.
- The purpose of life is to believe, to hope, and to strive.
- The real joy in life comes from finding your true purpose and aligning it with what you do every single day.
- The recognition of a determinate purpose in life, and a sturdy adhesion to it through all disadvantages, are indispensable conditions of success.
- The secret is not to find the meaning of life, but to use your life to make things that are meaningful.
- The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.
- The struggles along the way are only meant to shape you for your purpose.
- The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.
- The things that one most wants to do are the things that are probably most worth doing.
- The time and thought which most persons waste in aimless effort would accomplish wonders if properly directed with some special object in view.
- The tragedy of life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goals to reach.
- The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
- The true purpose of the strong is to promote greater strength in the weak, and not to keep the weak in that state where they are at the mercy of the strong.
- The Vision that you glorify in your mind, the Ideal that you enthrone in your heart--this you will build your life by, this you will become.
- The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be.
- The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going.
- The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
- There has never been, and never again will be a human being like you. There is nothing ordinary about you. If you feel ordinary, it is because you have chosen to hide the extraordinary parts of yourself from the world.
- There is a space between man's imagination and man's attainment that may only be traversed by his longing.
- There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique.