Quotes about Purpose
The world stands aside to let anyone pass who knows where he is going.
— David Starr Jordan
This is true joy of life-the being used for a purpose that is recognized by yourself as a right one, instead of being a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.
— George Bernard Shaw
Fortunate is the person who has developed the self-control to steer a straight course toward his objective in life, without being swayed from his purpose by either commendation or condemnation.
— Napoleon Hill
In the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same way as they tie their cravats, there is always a good number who once meant to shape their own deeds and alter the world a little.
— George Eliot
Aim at heaven and you get earth thrown in; aim at earth and you get neither.
— CS Lewis
The house appointed for all living.
— Anonymous
It's what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Happy [is] the man who knows his duties!
— Christian Furchtegott Gellert
The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
— Albert Schweitzer
There is certainly no greater happiness than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed, to trace our own progress in existence by such tokens as excite neither shame nor sorrow.
— Samuel Johnson
Service is the rent we pay for the privilege of living on this earth.
— Shirley Chisholm
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.