Purpose Quotes

The important thing in life is to have a great aim, and to possess the aptitude and perseverance to attain it.

Goethe

The meaning of life is to help others find the meaning in theirs.

Victor Frankl

Men must be decided on what they will not do, and then they are able to act with vigour in what they ought to do.

Mencius

What ripens passion is the conviction that your work matters. For most people, interest without purpose is nearly impossible to sustain for a lifetime.

Angela Duckworth

Where there’s a will there’s a way, but where there’s no will, there’s no way.

Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about.

Earl Nightingale

Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.

Carl von Clausewitz

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose – a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

Mary Shelley

When you know who you are, you know what to do.

What makes people work is an idea worth working for, along with a clear understanding of what needs to be done.

Michael E Gerber

Your work is to discover your work, and then with all your heart give yourself to it.

You often feel tired, not because you’ve done too much, but because you’ve done too little of what sparks a light in you.

Alexander Den Heuer

The soul that is indolent falls an easy prey to temptation; but in the life that has a noble aim, an absorbing purpose, evil finds little foothold.

Ellen G White

When you have purpose you don’t have time for negativity.

Mark Victor Hansen

Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.

Ella Fitzgerald

Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

John F Kennedy

Passion for your work is a little bit of discovery, followed by a lot of development, and then a lifetime of deepening.

Angela Duckworth

Instead of thinking about what you’re missing, try thinking about what you have that everyone else is missing.

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

Thoreau

Ikigai = reason for living.

It doesn’t matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

Brian Tracy

My life is my message.

Mahatma Ghandi

The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.

Steven Covey

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honourable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Be passionately on purpose about your right livelihood.

Mark Victor Hansen

A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Maya Angelou

If you’re not sure where you’re going, you’ll probably end up somewhere else.

It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.

Thomas Carlyle

Every man loves what he is good at.

Thomas Shadwell

Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.

Rumi

To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The important thing in life is to have a great aim, and to possess the aptitude and perseverance to attain it.

Goethe

When the why becomes clear, the how becomes easy.

Keith Abraham

When a man does not know what harbour he is making for, no wind is the right wind.

Seneca

Never underestimate the motivation you get from finding what makes you feel fulfilled and doing good in the world.

Ronni Kahn

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.

At its core, the idea of purpose is the idea that what we do matters to people other than ourselves.

Angela Duckworth

The opposite of depression is not happiness, it is purpose.

What do you love so much that the words failure and success become irrelevant?

Elizabeth Gilbert

The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

William Cowper

When a man does not know what harbour he is making for, no wind is the right wind.

Seneca

The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.

David Viscott