Purpose Quotes

Richest leaders are not those who have calories in their bank accounts, but those who have fats in their positive ideas.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Vision unknown is self-abuse. Vision known is self-abuse discovery. But vision applied is self-liberation. Application is the key

~ Israelmore Ayivor

By means of positive imaginations, leaders bring the future to the present so that they can work on it before setting off to enter it.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Bridges take people across rivers. Leaders take people across ignorance. With a leader, the destination of a journey is sure.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Fear punches holes in your eyes so that you don't see the future clearly. Faith enlarges your vision to behold your destiny.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Leaders do what is uncomfortable but helpful. They run away from the comfort that doesn't produce any help for the world.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Leaders find something to die for, not something to live on. If you haven't found something to die for yet, you can't lead.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

It’s is good you are about something. But wait and ask, “why and how?”. Without “whys and hows”, not every energetic movement can be called progress.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

You have great talent for great contribution to humanity.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We can serve humanity with passionate commitment to our divine purpose.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Leadership is more about purpose than it is about position.

~ Michele Jennae

Leaders step up, even when they feel like hiding. And they do so because they care.

~ Michele Jennae

ART: None. The function of art is to hold the mirror up to nature, and there simply isn’t a mirror big enough—see point one.

~ Douglas Adams

Creativity is a work of the hand of God, and is therefore an art of Love. If we want to create something in our lives, we have to allow God’s hand to weave through our hearts, so we can carry out the work of the soul – our Divine purpose in life.

~ Frederick Espiritu

What happens when you combine your passion, strength and value? This is the process of creating true art.

~ J.r. Rim

Yes, contrast teaches us a great many things and there is purpose for it. Yet it is time to transcend your everyday dramas that are but drops in an ocean. Cease focusing on your droplets of water and look around you. Everything you say and touch and do sets into motion ripples that either heal and create or curse and destroy. Let me repeat: Everything.

~ Alaric Hutchinson

Every day, I take steps to resolve all my karmic ties, live with intention, smile and laugh often, express my love, and act on what brings me fulfillment. Why wait until we have one foot in the grave to suddenly become spiritual, forgiving, and at peace with the world?

~ Alaric Hutchinson

Every man should care (be concerned) about these three things: Which station have I come from? Which station did I get off? Which station am I going to?

~ Dada Bhagwan

God plans every sacred purpose for a sacred time.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

No matter what kind of circumstances come together, if one’s stillness is not shaken and his goal does not change; he is known to have attained religion.

~ Dada Bhagwan

Our head is designed to develop our intelligence, to devote ourselves to self- education, self -improvement and to broaden our perspective regarding the world around us

~ Sunday Adelaja

Without understanding, there is no life. Either you act, out of understanding or act to develop understanding out of it.

~ Roshan Sharma

Let our information and social technologies raise awareness and not propaganda, build connections and not passive-aggression.

~ Criss Jami

No empire lasts forever, no dynasty continues unbroken. Some day, you and I will be mere legends. All that matters is whether we did what we could with the life that was given to us.

~ Krishna Udayasankar

God decided that this time in history was perfect for you to glorify Him and make an eternal difference. So God gave you unique gifts, talents, passions, and experiences to propel you into your life purpose.

~ Craig Groeschel

Anybody that does not value time does not value life.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Is what I do important? Does it matter? I don't really do much other than working, and caring for my family and friends.God: If anything matters, than everything matters. Because you are important, everything you do is important. Every time you forgive, the universe changes. Every time you reach out and touch a heart or a life, the world changes. With every kindness and service, seen or unseen, my purposes are accomplished, and nothing will ever be the same again.

~ William Paul Young

In the midst of compassion, we find ourselves. We discover our true purpose.

~ Jana Elston

One of the greatest purposes a man/woman can ever be indulged in is the positive evolution of self for the selfless service to humanity.

~ Ufuoma Apoki

Our specific profession serves a sacred purpose.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Without meaningful work you might as well be dead.

~ Joanna Russ

I do not snivel that snivel the world over,That months are vacuums and the ground but wallow and filth,That life is a suck and a sell, and nothing remains at the end but threadbare crape and tears.

~ Walt Whitman

Just as a well-filled day brings blessed sleep, so a well-employed life brings a blessed death

~ Leonardo Da Vinci

There are days when you will wonder if it is even possible to make money doing what you do, or whether you are just barking up the wrong tree...There will be days when you think that if you don't show up for the next few days nobody will miss you and nobody will care...Don't believe it...it's not true...If your gift and your passion wasn't needed you wouldn't have them...

~ Osayi Emokpae Lasisi

One redeeming feature of human beings is that we must work to sustain our survival. Working attaches people to reality; it creates a survival identity, and provides structure to our life. Work provides a person with a temporary purpose and an accompanying sense of security that there is a fitting place in this world for a person of their temperament and talent.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

I never knew the wonders of nature, until I began to walk with nature.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Your purpose, and its specific expressions, expands and accelerates as it becomes more similar to Nature’s purpose. The tools you need to apply it you collect along the path in discovering what that is. Time is there to provide you with the “opportunities” to find more creative responses to things like frustration, confusion and self-righteousness. As you gently, oh so gently and delicately, adjust to the requirements that exist in your actual circumstance, you are given the tools needed to surpass them.

~ Darrell Calkins

If a man realizes who he is, he cannot lose his peace and gladness because he lives at peace with himself

~ Sunday Adelaja

The power we were given to think, is to enable us to live better lives, not fool more people.

~ Michael Brent Jones

It’s not about you. The purpose of your life is far greater than your own personal fulfillment, your peace of mind, or even your happiness. It's far greater than your family, your career, or even your wildest dreams and ambitions. If you want to know why you were placed on this planet, you must begin with God. You were born by his purpose and for his purpose.

~ Rick Warren