Quotes about Purpose
God created hand, head, and heart; the hand for the deed, the head for the world, the heart for mysticism.
- Abraham Kuyper
Having thus chosen our course, without guile and with pure purpose, let us renew our trust in God, and go forward without fear and with manly hearts.
- Abraham Lincoln
I have an irrepressible desire to live till I can be assured that the world is a little better for my having lived in it.
- Abraham Lincoln
Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.
- Abraham Lincoln
And in the end it is not the years in your life that count, it's the life in your years.
- Abraham Lincoln
And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
- Abraham Lincoln
Sometimes you have to find the passion. It comes from the inside... Everyone has to find it for themselves.
- Candace Bushnell
How many people are not as good as they could be at their job because they don't love it? They're not passionate about it. If you don't like something, why are you doing it?
- Tim Tebow
I think the story is important in every business. Why do you exist, why are you here, why is your product different, why should I pay attention, why should I care?
- Jason Fried
Americans are not a perfect people, but we are called to a perfect mission.
- Andrew Jackson
In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
The ways of the Lord are not comfortable, but we were not created for comfort, but for greatness, for good.
- Pope Benedict XVI