Quotes about Purpose
When I seek you, my God, I seek a blessed life. I shall seek you, so that my soul may live.
— St. Augustine
The business of life summons us away from useless grief, and calls us to the exercise of those virtues of which we are lamenting our deprivation.
— Samuel Johnson
The nature of life is to be a study of contrasts: joy/sadness, full/empty. The Main Thing is to Keep The Main Thing The Main Thing.
— Stephen Covey
The performance of duty, and not an indulgence in vapid ease and vapid pleasure, is all that makes life worth while.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Whatever you do, do it with intelligence, and keep the end in view.
— Thomas a Kempis
We've learned how to lengthen life, but we don't know how to deepen it.
— Vance Havner
Like anybody, I would like to have a long life. Longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now. I just want to do God's will.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
An unhappy life is a life not lived.
— Dennis Prager
The ultimate purpose of life is to show that Jesus is more precious than life.
— John Piper
Ethics is a code of values which guide our choices and actions and determine the purpose and course of our lives.
— Ayn Rand
Now is the time to start a normal christian life!
— Bill Johnson
If there is a God, you owe him far more than a morally decent life.
— Timothy Keller