Quotes about Purpose

All of us are born with certain gifts, and the secret to success is figuring out what your gift is and using it in a way that benefits others.

Indeed, there is nothing like suffering to remind us how much we need God. What good news that His purpose and plan for our lives moves in a different direction from ours!

We may not ever fully understand why God allows the suffering that devastates our lives. We may not ever find the right answers to how we'll dig ourselves out.

To a pagan, there is no purpose to suffering. As a result, he lives a life of loneliness and frustration.

The day is always (hers or) his, who works in it with serenity and great aims.

And truly it demands something godlike in him who has cast off the common motives of humanity, and has ventured to trust himself for a taskmaster. High be his heart, faithful his will, clear his sight, that he may in good earnest be doctrine, society, law, to himself, that a simple purpose may be to him as strong as iron necessity is to others!

Life is too short to waste The critic bite or cynic bark, Quarrel, or reprimand; 'Twill soon be dark; Up! mind thine own aim, and God speed the mark!

Nothing in nature is exhausted in its first use...In God, every end is converted into a new means.

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be

In God, every end is converted into a new means. Thus the use of commodity, regarded by itself, is mean and squalid.

for the hand can never execute any thing higher than the character can inspire.

The lover seeks in marriage his private felicity and perfection, with no prospective end; and nature hides in his happiness her own ends, namely, progeny, or the perpetuity of the race.