Quotes about Purpose

Risk must be evaluated not by the fear it generates in you or the probability of your success, but by the value of the goal.

Nobody finishes well by accident.

The great men and women of history were not great because of what they earned and owned, but rather for what they gave their lives to accomplish.

An unintentional life accepts everything and does nothing. An intentional life embraces only the things that will add to the mission of significance.

Great minds have purposes; others have wishes. Little minds are subdued by misfortunes; but great minds rise above them.

Action is what converts human dreams into significance.

If you want to reach your potential and become the person you were created to be, you must do much more than just experience life and hope that you learn what you need along the way. You must go out of your way to seize growth opportunities as if your future depended on it.

Poet Ralph Waldo Emerson said, "The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

If a man hasn't discovered something he will die for, he isn't fit to live." —Martin Luther King Jr.

See the big picture. Your place on the team makes sense only in the context of the big picture. If your only motivation for finding your niche is personal gain, your poor motives may prevent you from discovering what you desire.

When you live each day with intentionality, there's almost no limit to what you can do. You can transform yourself, your family, your community, and your nation. When enough people do that, they can change the world. When you intentionally use your everyday life to bring about positive change in the lives of others, you begin to live a life that matters.

Each day is an unrepeatable miracle. Today will never happen again, so we must make it count.