Purpose Quotes

Purpose is a higher level of living, where you live more for others than you live for yourself.

~ Bidemi Mark-Mordi

Hundreds of people began to care in a personal way about the suffering of farm workers because they care about you and learned that you were willing to go to jail with striking farm workers,” Chris wrote the delegates from the Jesuit spirituality conference. He apologized profusely for having misled them into thinking they would be out in a few days. But no one complained. They told Chris the two weeks ranked among the most moving times of their lives. The gripes came from those who had opted for the picket line that obeyed the injunctions. They had been forced to make the decision too fast, they grumbled to Chris.Chris saw the saga as a modern parable, and he loved to tell the story: The people who played it safe, unwilling to risk arrest, ended up feeling cheated and angry. Those willing to sacrifice emerged from the ordeal enriched, certain that the experience had changed their lives.

~ Miriam Pawel

Your purpose is simply what you do each day.

~ Bryant Mcgill

The thing that matters most is what matters to you, not anybody else.

~ Fennel Hudson

So I'll do that, and I'll do my best and if my best isn't good enough, at least I will have done everything I could, everything that is in me. I don't have to try to be someone else, someone I could never be.

~ Garth Nix

God wants you to bless Him because it’s the purpose you were originally created for.

~ Andrew Wommack

You didn’t create yourself, so there is no way you can tell yourself what you were created for! If I handed you an invention you had never seen before, you wouldn’t know it’s purpose, and the invention itself wouldn’t be able to tell you either. Only the creator or the owner’s manual could reveal it’s purpose.

~ Rick Warren

Everything God does has purpose and intention behind that design. It is a master design, and every little thing has its proper place and function.

~ A.w. Tozer

The most central truth to the creation account is that this world is a place for God's presence.

~ John H. Walton

In a half-empty-glass sort of world, I’m the little girl whose cup runneth over.

~ Sheila C. Johnson

If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.

~ Dante Alighieri

There are no coincidences and no mistakes. Every role has a purpose and every path has merit. Everything we do and experience is for learning to remember our connection with God.

~ Peter Santos

Your mistakes are to help you develop your purpose, not shame and guilt.

~ Sue Fitzmaurice

A man’s main purpose in life is to find his ground, till it and care for it, bringing the Kingdom ofGod there and establishing the Lordship of Jesus Christ over it.

~ Sunday Adelaja

The wilderness is a place that every believer has to experience to be molded for their divine purpose.

~ E'yen A. Gardner

We can spend today joyously celebrating potential by acting upon our purpose, or we can spend it mourning the days and opportunities gone by… the first will find you amongst the few who are content and accomplished; the latter will find you with the suffering majority as you exhaustedly swim in the ocean of regret.

~ Steve Maraboli

a man in earnest finds means, or if he cannot find he creates them. A vigorous purpose makes much out of little, breathes power into weak instruments, disarms difficulties, and even turns them into assistances. Every condition has means of progress, if we have spirit enough to use them.

~ William Ellery Channing

No matter where you are involved with, your increase must have a purpose

~ Sunday Adelaja

Everybody is living for a purpose, you might turn out to be significant or insignificant depending on the kind of message you are feeding the world with.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

It was only when I started to be myself that the music started to flow and people started to listen.

~ Sam Smith

Steam in an open space would just simply scatter in different directions. Steam contained in an engine can move a whole train. Success comes from One-pointedness and Constancy of Aim and Effort.

~ Choa Kok Sui

In short, superheroes balance the forces of light and dark, rage and serenity, and the sacred and the profane within themselves and from it forge an identity that is powerful and purposeful.

~ Deepak Chopra

Before the Plan, there is an Idea. Before the Idea, there is a Purpose. Before the Purpose, there is Your Spirit...aching to express Itself

~ Paresh Shah

problems call for ideas, the bigger the problem, the bigger the idea

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Giving up everything must mean giving over everything to kingdom purposes, surrendering everything to further the one central cause, loosening our grip on everything. For some of us, this may mean ridding ourselves of most of our possessions. But for all of us it should mean dedicating everything we retain to further the kingdom. (For true disciples, however, it cannot mean hoarding or using kingdom assets self-indulgently.)

~ Randy Alcorn

It is not the fact that we are united in common goals or purposes that makes us a community. Rather, it is the fact that we share a common life in Christ.

~ Jerry Bridges

It's Saturday; a day off, or it's not; maybe it's a day off connected to countless days off. Some are secure, some not, some wonder. But there's a common thread; each of us having purpose; some living after learning it, some learning while living it, some looking. We are all connected in purpose, all of us loved equally by a race and gender-blind Christ walking with us in that purpose.

~ Lee Goff

Once you have mastered the craft, you can use it for whatever purpose you choose.

~ Hassan Fathy

Leadership is a process where a leader has a purpose oriented destination and lets the followers find the best way to get there with a common vision and goal.

~ Debasish Mridha

No purpose, no science, only love alone can justify and explain the mysteries of creation.

~ Debasish Mridha

If you keep going with a definite purpose, you will find the way and reach the destination.

~ Debasish Mridha

The effect of a concept-driven revolution is to explain old things in new ways. The effect of a tool-driven revolution is to discover new things that have to be explained.

~ Frank Watson Dyson

Those who seek only the rapture of divine union and quiescence of the mystic state are likewise not on our path. Such navel gazers lose the script for why they are even incarnated in the first place. To the sorcerer there is not much point in moments of primordial awareness if it does not carry over into the living levels of consciousness; no purpose to receiving the uncreated and clear light, if one cannot reflect it outward through world and deed; and no purpose in being a sovereign if you cannot leave the kingdom better than you found it.

~ Jason G. Miller

If you are not on your path of purpose, you will only have misery in your life.

~ Bryant Mcgill

People enter different paths seeking for happiness and fulfillment. We must respect other people's individuality. Just because they're not on your path doesn't mean they are on the wrong track.

~ Ogwo David Emenike

We all have different paths in life. As in purpose, so is happiness. As our purposes differ, so do our roads to happiness differ, though we may have common grounds.

~ Ogwo David Emenike

My life has a mysterious purpose that I don't understand, and day by day, conflict by conflict, I learn by going where I have to go.

~ Dean Koontz

when parameters are not set for man, there is always an unknown abuse

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

If you continue to dig the same hole in the same place in your life, eventually you will be standing in a grave.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Ambition is enthusiasm with a purpose.

~ Frank Tyger