Purpose Quotes

The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.

~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

My value as a woman is not measured by the size of my waist or the number of men who like me. My worth as a human being is measured on a higher scale: a scale of righteousness and piety. And my purpose in life-despite what fashion magazines say-is something more sublime than just looking good for men.

~ Yasmin Mogahed

A simple life is not seeing how little we can get by with—that’s poverty—but how efficiently we can put first things first. . . . When you’re clear about your purpose and your priorities, you can painlessly discard whatever does not support these, whether it’s clutter in your cabinets or commitments on your calendar. (148)

~ Victoria Moran

Great minds have purpose, others have wishes. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortunes; but great minds rise above them.

~ Washington Irving

You can have anything you want if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.

~ Abraham Lincoln

It is not true that everyone is special. It is true that everyone was once special and still possesses the ability to recover it.

~ Criss Jami

You were not meant for a mundane or mediocre life!

~ Steve Maraboli

To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.

~ Robert M. Pirsig

Here is a test to find out whether your mission in life is complete. If you’re alive, it isn’t.

~ Lauren Bacall

There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose.

~ Charles Dickens

The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything.

~ Warren Buffett

Like most North Americans of his generation, Hal tends to know way less about why he feels certain ways about the objects and pursuits he's devoted to than he does about the objects and pursuits themselves. It's hard to say for sure whether this is even exceptionally bad, this tendency.

~ David Foster Wallace

The purpose of life is a life of purpose.

~ Robert Bryne

This is why I'm here on this planet, at this time, Francesca. Not to travel or make pictures, but to love you. I know that now. I have been falling from the rim of a great, high place, somewhere back in time, for many more years than I have lived in this life. And through all of those years, I have been falling toward you.

~ Robert James Waller

The purpose of influence is to speak up for those who have no influence. (Pr.31:8) It's not about you.

~ Rick Warren

Find the thing you want to do most intensely, make sure that’s it, and do it with all your might. If you live, well and good. If you die, well and good. Your purpose is done

~ H.g. Wells

He does have surprising, secret purposes. I open a Bible, and His plans, startling, lie there barefaced. It’s hard to believe it, when I read it, and I have to come back to it many times, feel long across those words, make sure they are real. His love letter forever silences any doubts: “His secret purpose framed from the very beginning [is] to bring us to our full glory” (1 Corinthians 2:7 NEB).

~ Ann Voskamp

Pride makes us long for a solution to things – a solution, a purpose, a final cause; but the better telescopes become, the more stars appear.

~ Julian Barnes

In Maycomb, if one went for a walk with no definite purpose in mind, it was correct to believe one's mind incapable of definite purpose.

~ Harper Lee

A man may plant a tree for a number of reasons. Perhaps he likes trees. Perhaps he wants shelter. Or perhaps he knows that someday he may need the firewood.

~ Joanne Harris

Your emotions make you human. Even the unpleasant ones have a purpose. Don't lock them away. If you ignore them, they just get louder and angrier.

~ Sabaa Tahir

God created us for this: to live our lives in a way that makes him look more like the greatness and the beauty and the infinite worth that he really is. This is what it means to be created in the image of God.

~ John Piper

Intelligence minus purpose equals stupidity.

~ Toba Beta

Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!

~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Wasn’t hitting bottom the thing you had to do to knock some sense into yourself? Wasn’t hitting bottom the thing that showed you which way was up?

~ Rainbow Rowell

Never question the power of one! Throughout history it has been the actions of only one person who has in inspired the movement of change.

~ Steve Maraboli

Time is too swift for those who fear, too long for those who wait, too short for those who finally find peace, but for those who love, time is eternal. For nothing is ever lost that God wants you to find.

~ Shannon L. Alder

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

~ Pablo Picasso

Those who look behind will never see beyond.

~ Sherry K. White

Whenever we want to combat our enemies, first and foremost we must start by understanding them rather than exaggerating their motives.

~ Criss Jami

In spite of where we were, how we had gotten here and why we had come, I felt that at this moment of our lives, this place was exactly where we belonged. We were not drifting but rising, rising toward something right and of significance.

~ Dean Koontz

But there was a special kind of gift that came with embracing the chaos, even if I cursed most of the way. I'm convinced that, when everything is wiped blank, it's life 's way of forcing you to become acquainted with and aware of who you are now, who you can become. What is the fulfillment of your soul?

~ Jennifer Delucy

Real women fight for something, other than their own emotions.

~ Shannon L. Alder

You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world.

~ Woodrow Wilson

Following all the rules leaves a completed checklist. Following your heart achieves a completed you.

~ Ray A. Davis

But we are strong, each in our purpose, and we are all more strong together.

~ Bram Stoker

By all evidence we are in the world to do nothing.

~ Emil M. Cioran

Rough as life can be, I know in my bones we are supposed to stick around and play our part. Even if that part is coughing to death from cigarettes, or being blown up young in a house with your mother watching. And even if it's to be that mother. Someone down the line might need to know you got through it. Or maybe someone you won't see coming will need you. Like a kid who asks you to help him clean motel rooms. Or some ghost who drifts your way, hungry. And good people might even ask you to marry them. And it might be you never know the part you played, what it meant to someone to watch you make your way each day. Maybe someone or something is watching us all make our way. I don't think we get to know why. It is, as Ben would say about most of what I used to worry about, none of my business.

~ Bill Clegg

The only purpose of our lives consists in waking each other up and being there for each other.

~ Johanna Paungger

The enduring attraction of war is this: Even with its destruction and carnage it can give us what we long for in life. It can give us purpose, meaning, a reason for living.

~ Chris Hedges