Quotes about Purpose
In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.
— Viktor E. Frankl
I firmly believe that any man's finest hour - his greatest fulfillment to all he holds dear... is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.
— Vince Lombardi
Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck, your profession is what you're put here on earth to do, with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.
— Vincent Van Gogh
If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?
— Vincent Van Gogh
Nothing, including human suffering, happens by chance.
— John Calvin
Every human heart cries and yearns for the same thing: a chance to fulfill his or her own dreams and desires. Even the poorest man has a dream.
— Myles Munroe
I know who I am, I know what I believe, that's all I need to know. From there, you do what you need to do.
— Will Smith
Quit living as if the purpose of life is to arrive safely at death.
— Mark Batterson
An awareness of death encourages us to live more intensely.
— Paulo Coelho
The great Easter truth is not that we are to live newly after death - that is not the great thing - but that...we are to, and may, live nobly now because we are to live forever.
— Phillips Brooks
Oh God, God, why did you take such trouble to force this creature out of its shell if it is now doomed to crawl back -- to be sucked back -- into it?
— CS Lewis
The years seem to rush by now, and I think of death as a fast approaching end of a journey-double and treble reason for loving as well as working while it is day.
— George Eliot