Purpose Quotes

Wherever you go, go with all your heart. --Confucius

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One needs something to believe in, something for which one can have whole-hearted enthusiasm. One needs to feel that one's life has meaning, that one is needed in this world.

--Hannah Senesh

Many people have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

--Helen Keller

I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

--Henry David Thoreau

Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night.

--Marian Wright Edelman

Service is the rent we pay to be living. It is the very purpose of life and not something you do in your spare time.

--Marian Wright Edelman

I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.

--Albert Schweitzer

Great minds have purposes, little minds have wishes.

--Washington Irving

"I have done my best." That is about all the philosophy of living one needs.

--Henry Miller

That is happiness: to be dissolved into something complete and great.

--Willa Cather

Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it.

--James Allen

We are here on earth to do good for others. What the others are here for, I don't know.

--W. H. Auden

But there is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it's better to lose some of the battles in the struggles for your dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing what you're fighting for.

--Paulo Coelho

We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.

--Marian Wright Edelman

A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the "why" for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any "how."

--Victor Frankl

Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed.

--Vaclav Havel

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.

--Thomas Paine

My mother said to me, "If you become a soldier, you'll be a general; if you become a monk, you'll end up as the Pope." Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.

--Pablo Picasso

Some men see things as they are and say, "Why?" I dream of things that never were and say, "Why not?"

--George Bernard Shaw

This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.

--George Bernard Shaw

In the world to come, I shall not be asked, "Why were you not Moses?" I shall be asked, "Why were you not Zusya?"

--Rabbi Zusya

You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living. Then you read a book(Lady Chatterley, for instance), or you take a trip, or you talk with Richard, and you discover that you are not living, that you are hibernating. The symptoms of hibernating are easily detectable: first, restlessness. The second symptom(when hibernating becomes dangerous and might degenerate into death): absence of pleasure. That is all. It appears like an innocuous illness. Monotony, boredom, death. Millions live like this(or die like this) without knowing it. They work in offices. They drive a car. They picnic with their families. They raise children. And then some shock treatment takes place, a person, a book, a song, and it awakens them and saves them from death.

-- Anais Nin

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