Quotes about Purpose
Success means we go to sleep at night knowing that our talents and ablities were used in a way that served others.
- Marianne Williamson
One cannot desire freedom from the Cross when one is especially chosen for the Cross.
- Edith Stein
Be true to yourself. Make each day a masterpiece. Help others. Drink deeply from good books. Make friendship a fine art. Build a shelter against a rainy day.
- John Wooden
How in the world could I have lived such a helpful life as I have lived had I not been blind?
- Fanny Crosby
As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around.
- Oprah Winfrey
The greatest discovery in life is self-discovery. Until you find yourself you will always be someone else. Become yourself.
- Myles Munroe
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
- Oscar Wilde
We come into this world with a specific, personal destiny. We have a job to do, a calling to enact, a self to become. We are who we are from the cradle, and we're stuck with it.
- Steven Pressfield
The years seem to rush by now, and I think of death as a fast approaching end of a journey - double and treble the reason for loving as well as working while it is day
- George Eliot
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.
- Henry David Thoreau
What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society.
- Pope John Paul II