Quotes about Purpose

The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.

If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a 'wandering to find home,'' why should we not look forward to the arrival?

These then are my last words to you. Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.

There are two great days in a person's life -- the day we are born and the day we discover why.

Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it.

It's easy to let life deteriorate into making a living instead of making a life. It's not the hours you put in, but what you out into the hours that count. Learn to express rather than impress. Expressing evokes a ''me too'' attitude while impressing evokes a ''so what'' attitude.

The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is always becoming, never being.

Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last.

Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

We have one life; it soon will be past; what we do for God is all that will last.