Quotes about Purpose
If I were to let my life be taken over by what is urgent, I might very well never get around to what is essential.
— Henri Nouwen
I am a human being, not a human doing. Don't equate your self-worth with how well you do things in life. You aren't what you do. If you are what you do, then when you don't . . , you aren't.
— Wayne Dyer
There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
— Booker T. Washington
Nothing in life has happened to you. It's happened for you. Every disappointment. Every wrong. Even every closed door has helped make you into who you are.
— Joel Osteen
The only really happy people are those who have learned how to serve.
— Rick Warren
The point is not what we expect from life, but rather what life expects from us.
— Viktor E. Frankl
Imagine watching all that God might have done with your life if you had let him.
— John Ortberg
Nothing could be more misdirected than a self-directed life.
— Lewis Sperry Chafer
You can't know where life will take you, but you can commit to a direction
— Wendell Berry
Is there another Life? Shall I awake and find all this a dream? There must be we cannot be created for this sort of suffering.
— John Keats
How disappointing would it be get to heaven and find out God created life to be enjoyed while all we did was worry?
— Donald Miller
When you use your life for God's glory, everything you do can become an act of worship
— Rick Warren