Quotes about Purpose

If God wanted the woods to be quiet, He would not have given birds songs to sing.

If you have a family mission statement that clarifies what your purpose is, then you use that as the criterion by which you make the decisions.

I wasn't satisfied just to earn a good living. I was looking to make a statement.

God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas.

Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.

Patience and tenacity of purpose are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.

When ambition ends, happiness begins.

A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire.

We do not exist for ourselves...

If you want to identify me, ask me not where I live, or what I like to eat, or how I comb my hair, but ask me what I am living for, in detail, ask me what I think is keeping me from living fully for the thing I want to live for.

A man knows when he has found his vocation when he stops thinking about how to live and begins to live.

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