Quotes about Purpose

The Inner Voice: Vision starts within. Do you know your life's mission? What stirs your heart? What do you dream about? If what you're pursuing in life doesn't come from a desire within—from the very depths of who you are and what you believe—you will not be able to accomplish it.

The purpose of life is not to win. The purpose of life is to grow and to share. When you come to look back on all that you have done in life, you will get more satisfaction from the pleasures you have brought into other people's lives than you will from the times that you outdid and defeated them.

I believe that no matter what "plot" each of our stories may follow, deep down we all want one thing. We want our lives to matter. We want our stories to be of significance.

What do I really want? What will it cost? Am I willing to pay the price? When should I start paying the price?

Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself (for God did not need to create). It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.

True friends... face in the same direction, toward common projects, interests, goals.

Choose your friends with caution; plan your future with purpose, and frame your life with faith.

A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.

If you're bored with life, if you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things - you don't have enough goals.

Oh to reach the point of death and realize one has not lived at all.

A person's destiny often ends before his death.