Quotes about Purpose

Why are you here? That's the ultimate question that you get to answer with every action, thought, and feeling. There is a calling on your life. What will be your answer? — Oprah

The great American mythologist, author, and philosopher Joseph Campbell once said, "The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do." —Epictetus

God can dream a bigger dream for you than you can dream for yourself, and your role on Earth is to attach yourself to that divine force and let yourself be released to it.

Everybody has a calling. Your real job in life is to figure out why you are here and get about the business of doing it. — Oprah

What I know is, is that if you do work that you love and work that fulfills you, the rest will come. And that, I truly believe that the reason I've been able to be so financially successful is because my focus has never, ever for one minute been money.

Love is the essential existential fact. It is our ultimate reality and our purpose on earth." —Marianne Williamson

If you want to accomplish the goals of your life, you have to begin with the Spirit.

There's really only two emotions that count, and that's love and that's fear. And in all of your movements through life, you're either moving in the direction of one or the other. In order to have a meaningful life, you have to choose love.

You have to find what sparks a light in you so that you, in your own way, can illuminate the world.

How do you know when the obstacles in your path have been placed by God to protect you, or by Satan to hinder God's purposes in your affairs?

If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it; that is your punishment. If you never know what you want to be, if you live what some might call the dynamic life but what I will call the artistic life, if each day you are unsure of who you are and what you know you will never become anything, and that is your reward.