Quotes about Purpose
I believe that no matter what "plot" each of our stories may follow, deep down we all want one thing. We want our lives to matter. We want our stories to be of significance.
— John Maxwell
What do I really want? What will it cost? Am I willing to pay the price? When should I start paying the price?
— John Maxwell
Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
— Dag Hammarskjold
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself (for God did not need to create). It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.
— CS Lewis
True friends... face in the same direction, toward common projects, interests, goals.
— CS Lewis
Choose your friends with caution; plan your future with purpose, and frame your life with faith.
— Thomas Monson
A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
If you're bored with life, if you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things - you don't have enough goals.
— Lou Holtz
Oh to reach the point of death and realize one has not lived at all.
— Henry David Thoreau
A person's destiny often ends before his death.
— Milan Kundera
I believe there are ways whose ends are life instead of death.
— William Saroyan
In every dream journey, there comes a moment when you have to quit living as if the purpose of life is to arrive safely at death.
— Mark Batterson