purpose quotes

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

A calling is you feel – you look out and see the need – maybe it’s the need for the poor, to help poor people. Maybe it’s the need to get involved in the race problem, as Martin Luther King was – felt called.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Commit yourself to a mighty purpose.

The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours.

Be not simply good – be good for something.

If it wasn’t for the fun and money, I really don’t know why I’d bother.

Sometimes, I think if you get away from what you’re called to do, it’s more of a distraction.

Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.

My measure of success is whether I’m fulfilling my mission.

The important thing is to be in love with something.

Spending time with God through prayer and His Word is a prerequisite for having a great life and fulfilling your purpose.

Any time we are misused or used for a purpose other than what God intended us for, it’s damaging.

I’m trying to throw a big broad net to try to get people interested in God and believe that He’s for them and has a purpose.

I believe God, Jesus, died that we not just go to Heaven but that we excel in this life. I never think you make money your goal… God wants you to excel. Just keep Him in first place, and God will open up doors you never dreamed of.

What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?

Everything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed, the invisible intelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is also flowing through you.

If you don’t know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.

Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.

God didn’t make me to make movies, flex muscles, buy gold. What you love the most becomes your God… If I never make another dollar, my life is complete.

No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following an openly declared purpose, and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds.

I have retired, but if there’s anything that would kill me it is to wake up in the morning not knowing what to do.

Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

The Bible says that God has a reason for keeping us here; if He didn’t, He would take us to Heaven far sooner.

I feel that God wants me to coach; otherwise, he wouldn’t have put the desire in me.

You were not created to just get by with an average, unrewarding, or unfulfilling life. God created you to leave your mark on this generation.

Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.

I look forward to a great future for America – a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.

When you go on your Twitter or look down your Timeline and it’s all great positivity – I love that. But at the same time, it can really divert you from what your purpose is or what you’re trying to do. And I’ve seen artists get caught up in that.

Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn’t write, I would stop breathing.

I’ve never been pregnant, so I just feel God didn’t mean for me to have kids so that everybody else’s children could be mine.

Motives reveal why we do what we do, which is actually more important to God than what we’re doing.

Why am I here? I’m not lucky. That’s God.

Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one’s aim.

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

The things that transfixed you as a child, that you found most exciting was not a passing fancy, but a message about what you’re supposed to do.

I think that everybody needs four things in life. Everybody needs something to do regardless of age. Everybody needs someone to love. Everybody needs something to hope for, and, of course, everybody needs someone to believe in.

Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.

There’s place and means for every man alive.

When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.

What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.

America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world.

If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.

I got a greater purpose. God put something in my heart to get across, and that’s what I’m going to focus on, using my voice as an instrument and doing what needs to be done.

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by which we are translated?

An artist or a creative person of any kind goes about their work because it’s their path, it’s what excites them, it’s what aligns their soul with who they truly are, who they showed up to be.

War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.

Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‚What are you doing for others?‘

I don’t want to make money; I want to make a difference.

He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.

Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.

The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.

Find out who you are. And do it on purpose.

Before I started school striking I had no energy, no friends and I didn’t speak to anyone. I just sat alone at home, with an eating disorder. All of that is gone now, since I have found a meaning, in a world that sometimes seems shallow and meaningless to so many people.

Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose.

The purpose is clear. It is safety with solvency. The country is entitled to both.

My dad used to have an expression – ‚It is the lucky person who gets up in the morning, puts both feet on the floor, knows what they are about to do, and thinks it still matters.‘