How could I have never done a page on purpose quotes before? Strange. I have so many I’ll probably make a 2nd page in a day or two. Here’s 25 for you:
Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. -Plato
The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning. -Mitch Albom
Purpose is what gives life a meaning. -Charles H. Perkhurst
Nothing can resist the human will that will stake even its existence on its stated purpose. -Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881)
The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose. -John Mason Brown (1800-1859)
Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of life is to grasp as much as we can out of that infinitude. -Alfred North Whitehead
Life has a higher end, than to be amused. -William Ellery Channing
What makes life dreary is the want of a motive. -George Eliot (1819-1880)
The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body. -Mohatma Gandhi
Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction. -John F. Kennedy
Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them. -Dalai Lama
Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it. -Buddha (568-488 BC)
To put away aimlessness and weakness, and to begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment; who make all conditions serve them, and who think strongly, attempt fearlessly, and accomplish masterfully. -James Allen (1864-1912)
The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others. -Albert Schweitzer
Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one’s aim. -John D. Rockefeller
Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for. -Dag Hammarskjold (1905-1961)
Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose direction and begin to bend. -Walter Savage Landor
The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder – a waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpose in life, and, having it, throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work as God has given you. -Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)
The purpose of life is a life of purpose. -Robert Byrne
Great minds have purposes, others have wishes. -Washington Irving
Men achieve a certain greatness unawares, when working to another aim. -Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
The world makes way for a man who knows where he is going. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Blessed are the single-hearted, for they shall enjoy much peace. If you refuse to be hurried and pressed, if you stay your soul on God, nothing can keep you from that clearness of spirit which is life and peace. In that stillness you will know what His will is. -Amy Carmichael (1867-1951)
Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
A useless life is an early death. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by unfolding of his powers. -Erich Fromm (1900-1980)
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