Quotes about Purpose
From my boyhood I have had an intense and overwhelming conviction that my real vocation lay in the direction of literature. I have, however, had a most unaccountable difficulty in getting any responsible person to share my views. - Cyprian Overbeck Wells: A Literary Mosaic
— Arthur Conan Doyle
It was surely well for man that he came late in the order of creation. There
— Arthur Conan Doyle
What is the meaning of it, Watson? said Holmes solemnly as he laid down the paper. What object is served by this circle of misery and violence and fear? It must tend to some end, or else our universe is ruled by chance, which is unthinkable. But what end? There is the great standing perennial problem to which human reason is as far from an answer as ever.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
What I really need is to get clear about what I must do, not what I must know, except insofar as knowledge must precede every act. What matters is to find a purpose, to see what it really is that God wills that I shall do; the crucial thing is to find a truth which is truth for me, to find the idea for which I am willing to live and die.
— Soren Kierkegaard
If all you are going to do in life are the things that are convenient and comfortable, the great things never get done.
— George Bernard Shaw
When a person has found something which he prefers to life itself, he for the first time has begun to live.
— GK Chesterton
The only object of liberty is life.
— GK Chesterton
Life is not entertainment. Life is not distraction.
— Henri Nouwen
It is easier to learn to interpret dreams if you have a reason to use them for something constructive. You apply your dream insights to making constructive changes in your life.
— Henry Reed
The depth of our belief in the Resurrection and the Atonement of the Savior will, I believe, determine the measure of courage and purpose with which we meet life's challenges.
— James Faust
You can become all God created you to be even if you've had difficulties, even if you weren't born into a good, loving family, God still has a plan for your life.
— Joel Osteen
God made us for more than just barely getting by. We weren't meant to sit on the sidelines of life because with God, we are on the winning team!
— Joel Osteen