Quotes about Purpose
If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Begin each day as if it were on purpose.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
- Romans 8:28
We are all born for love... it is the principle existence and it's only end.
- Benjamin Disraeli
God is so good. He knows where a person will be happy, where they can love and be loved, where heaven on earth is. Now I know why he put me near you.
- Anonymous
You have not chosen one another, but I have chosen you for one another.
- CS Lewis
Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.
- Anonymous
Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.
- Henry David Thoreau
What I need to live has been given to me by the earth. Why I need to live has been given to me by you.
- Anonymous
A difficult time can be more readily endured if we retain the conviction that our existence holds a purpose, a cause to pursue, a person to love, a goal to achieve.
- John Maxwell
Why do we have to listen to our hearts? Because, wherever your heart is, that is where you'll find your treasure.
- Paulo Coelho