Quotes about Purpose
We must do our work for its own sake, not for fortune or attention or applause.
— Steven Pressfield
My dreams had to be His dreams, the ones He placed in my heart. They couldn't be the ones I thought I should have, or needed for the purpose of making other people like me.
— Stormie Omartian
No enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need, it performs some great service, not for itself, but for others; or failing therein, it ceases to be profitable and ceases to exist.
— Calvin Coolidge
Some men are willing to die for their faith, but they are not willing to fully live for it. Christ both lived and died for us.
— Ezra Taft Benson
Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Some people have a God because they need faith, and that's fair enough.
— Richard Ashcroft
Money can't heal your heart. Money can't give you purpose. I don't want arms and legs, I want purpose. I don't want arms and legs, I want peace. I don't want arms and legs, I want to be a miracle for someone else.
— Nick Vujicic
Find something that makes you happy and go for it.
— Zendaya
I don't know why I started writing. I don't know why anybody does it. Maybe they're bored, or failures at something else.
— Cormac McCarthy
Salvation brings the soul a deep awareness of God's love. Life takes on more meaning, for it now has a purpose.
— Mother Angelica
We do not exist for ourselves alone, and it is only when we are fully convinced of this fact that we begin to love ourselves properly and thus also love others.
— Thomas Merton
To live in sync with who we truly are means to recognize that we are dependent on God for our very breath and are graced with many good things; it means to be grateful to the giver and attentive to the purpose for which the gifts are given.
— Miroslav Volf