Quotes about Purpose
We live like we are on a pleasure cruise, when we are really on a rescue mission from God.
— Reinhard Bonnke
America, North and South, is a choice land, a land reserved for God's own purposes.
— Ezra Taft Benson
I believe that everyone, regardless of who they are, should do something that is greater than themselves. Whether it's adoption, or helping people who are sick or poor, or whatever. That's what God put us on this earth to do.
— Tim Tebow
Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.
— Henry David Thoreau
Our job in this lifetime is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it.
— Steven Pressfield
To feel ambition and to act upon it is to embrace the unique calling of our souls. Not to act upon that ambition is to turn our backs on ourselves and on the reason for our existence.
— Steven Pressfield
Like a magnetized needle floating on a surface of oil, Resistance will unfailingly point to true North - meaning that calling or action it most wants to stop us from doing. We can use this. We can use it as a compass. We can navigate by Resistance, letting it guide us to that calling or action that we must follow before all others.
— Steven Pressfield
Ambition, I have come to believe, is the most primal and sacred fundament of our being. To feel ambition and to act upon it is to embrace the unique calling of our souls. Not to act upon that ambition is to turn our backs on ourselves and on the reason for our existence.
— Steven Pressfield
Remember our rule of thumb: The more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to do it.
— Steven Pressfield
Rule of thumb: The more important a call or action is to our soul's evolution, the more Resistance we will feel toward pursuing it.
— Steven Pressfield
Rule of thumb: The more important a call or action is to our soul's evolution, the more Resistance we will feel toward pursuing it.
— Steven Pressfield
We are all meant to shine, as children do.
— Steven Pressfield