Quotes about Purpose
No one who has come to true greatness has not felt in some degree that his life belongs to the people, and what God has given them he gives it for mankind.
- Phillips Brooks
No experience is ever wasted. Everything has meaning.
- Oprah Winfrey
You don't waste your entire life waiting to go back to dust.
- Reba McEntire
It's nice to be happy. But the meaning of life is meaning - what's the impact you're having on the world. Suffering to accomplish that is a perfectly fine thing.
- Reid Hoffman
This is the sanctification of your studies: when they are devoted to God, and when He is the end, the object, and the life of them all.
- Richard Baxter
You must begin with God.
- Rick Warren
If you aren't serving, you're just existing, because life is meant for ministry.
- Rick Warren
To refuse to accept the call of your best life is to insult the force that created you.
- Robin Sharma
When I seek you, my God, I seek a blessed life. I shall seek you, so that my soul may live.
- St. Augustine
The business of life summons us away from useless grief, and calls us to the exercise of those virtues of which we are lamenting our deprivation.
- Samuel Johnson
The nature of life is to be a study of contrasts: joy/sadness, full/empty. The Main Thing is to Keep The Main Thing The Main Thing.
- Stephen Covey
The performance of duty, and not an indulgence in vapid ease and vapid pleasure, is all that makes life worth while.
- Theodore Roosevelt