Purpose Quotes

In between saying something and achieving it, there is some pothole to fill; that’s “doing it”. Goals are pursued with the word “GO” and visions with the word “VENTURE”. You can’t be living always in the promise of the cloud; it must rain now!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Most people think confidence lies in an excessive rehearsal. It’s true that man has to prepare, plan and practice before projecting his purposes. But a time must definitely arrive when man has to put an end to learning and rehearsal and start practicing what he spent time learning.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

A person seeks to quantify their existence. Do we measure a person’s life by its longevity or by assessing the warmth of its blaze? Do we measure a person by their brainpower or by the heartiness of his or her spine? Do earthy deeds count for more than intellectual opinions? What is more important, the work that a person produces or the quality of life that effuses from their being? Does it matter how we live and how we die, if we love or hate, are kind or mean, generous or stingy? Does it matter that we struggle to express personal doubts and toil in an effort to obtain redemption for our personal lapses?

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Your purpose explains what you are doing with your life. Your vision explains how you are living your purpose. Your goals enable you to realize your vision. - Bob Proctor

~ Bob Proctor

We can't fully encompass our motivational and inspirational awareness without fully understanding our purpose in life.

~ Matthew Donnelly

Aim deliberately at goal.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Stop obsessing about where you invest your money.Focus instead, on where you invest your time.

~ Gyan Nagpal

Your career has but one goal: To ensure your book of life is more than an anthology of salary slips.

~ Gyan Nagpal

A clear purpose will unite you as you move forward, values will guide your behavior, and goals will focus your energy.

~ Kenneth H. Blanchard

Too often, many people choose goals that are not inspiring and empowering to them

~ Bernard Kelvin Clive

Even the least of our activities ought to have some end in view.

~ Marcus Aurelius

Constantly re-evaluating your purpose is the best way to ensure that you are pursuing the goals of who you are and not who you used to be.

~ Chris Matakas

To find one’s purpose is to discover one’s worth, discern one’s direction, wholly dedicate oneself to the journey, and forge an unbending determination that I will not leave the world the way I found it. This week's blog outlines the finding of our purpose.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

If the goal is what you want to achieve, then the purpose is why you want to achieve it. Without purpose, reaching your goal will have little or no meaning.

~ Lawren Leo

Change words like difficult/impossible/unrealistic to words like challenging/fun/daring/exciting, and then get back to working/playing/competing/winning

~ Jamie Valentin

The only way to get to where you want to go is to ruthlessly evaluate your where you are now. The key here is that your biggest obstacle in life is always yourself—not external factors.

~ Isaiah Hankel

Your definition of a good life does not have to look like everyone else thinks it should. Whatever feels right for you, whatever aligns your inside with your outside, that's what you should spend your time doing.

~ G.g. Renee Hill

Don't expect people to understand your purpose when God didn't give them your vision.

~ Turcois Ominek

I've never felt that the American Dream was owed to me. I never felt that I was entitled to this Dream. This is why I laid the cobblestone before me for this Dream to be achieved.

~ John-Talmage Mathis

Is God satisfied with you or could it be that God looks at you and fails to see a man, only a bunch of flesh Full of self, and missing out on the purpose for his or her creation? What does God see, think and feel when he looks at you?

~ Sunday Adelaja

We strive toward the middle, and we run from ourselves.

~ Chris Matakas

When I stopped loving, I lost purpose; When I stopped loving myself, I lost myself.

~ Pavitraa Parthasarathy

Do not compare yourself with anybody. Compare yourself with yourself, for yourself and by yourself. We are all uniquely pottered and purposed by our creator!

~ Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

God trained Moses in a palace to use him in a desert. He trained Joseph in a desert to use him in a palace.

~ Ravi Zacharias

If sacrifice is not the theme of my life, there’s no sense telling the story.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

The hardest calling in our lives is to be truly ourselves.

~ J.r. Rim

To my own demise, I rarely ask why I’m hungry because I’m focusing all of my energies on getting fed. And if I persist in such a diminishing cycle, in all probability I will eventually starve to death because I have chosen to gorge myself on the very things that will keep me empty.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

The reason my life has wandered to nowhere is likely due to the fact that the focus of the moment has dictated the destination of my life, when the destination of my life should have been dictating the focus of the moment.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

At its best, this is my calling. At its worst, it is a mad compulsion that I just can’t shake.

~ Zoe Klein

If you are going to find work worth doing - a vocation to fulfill and challenge you - you will have to encounter a reality bigger than yourself. It may not be what others say it should be or what you think, but it will come if you are looking for it... At times, the work you're called to do will be hard and confusing, but if you press in, you will see the purpose behind the pain. You will see how the whole experience is causing you to grow. And you will thank God for the whole journey.

~ Jeff Goins

We are anointed for our assignment on earth because the anointed King lives in us--He is fulfilling His will through us.

~ E.n. Supen

I will forsake everything to fulfill the Fathers calling.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

God hasn't called you to walk in someone else's shoes (purpose). He wants you to walk in the shoes that fit you, for which He made you. You aren't going to succeed walking in another woman's shoes.

~ Beth Moore Jones

If we have faith, then we can see the beauty around us. If we don’t then we are just blind followers, not knowing why we are on the path.

~ Fennel Hudson

Cinderella was made for more than sweeping the floor.

~ Beth Moore Jones

Nothing is as important as your calling and purpose in life.

~ Sunday Adelaja

We are never short on opportunities to answer the call to assist the widows, support the homeless, stand up for justice and to preach Christ crucified and resurrected. That is the true calling of every believer.

~ Andrena Sawyer

If one wanted to crush and destroy a man entirely, to mete out to him the most terrible punishment ... all one would have to do would be to make him do work that was completely and utterly devoid of usefulness and meaning.

~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The layman need never think of his humbler task as being inferior to that of his minister. Let every man abide in the calling wherein he is called and his work will be as sacred as the work of the ministry. It is not what a man does that determines whether his work is sacred or secular, it is why he does it. The motive is everything. Let a man sanctify the Lord God in his heart and he can thereafter do no common act.

~ A.w. Tozer

Purpose declares that the trajectory of my existence and the course of human history were intentionally set to collide at this precise moment in time because what I have to offer human history is desperately needed at this precise time.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough