Purpose Quotes - Page 50

In spite of where we were, how we had gotten here and why we had come, I felt that at this moment of our lives, this place was exactly where we belonged. We were not drifting but rising, rising toward something right and of significance.

But there was a special kind of gift that came with embracing the chaos, even if I cursed most of the way. I'm convinced that, when everything is wiped blank, it's life 's way of forcing you to become acquainted with and aware of who you are now, who you can become. What is the fulfillment of your soul?

Jennifer DeLucy

Real women fight for something, other than their own emotions.

Shannon L. Alder

You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world.

Following all the rules leaves a completed checklist. Following your heart achieves a completed you.

But we are strong, each in our purpose, and we are all more strong together.

What am I living for and what am I dying for are the same question.

Margaret Atwood

The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

My value as a woman is not measured by the size of my waist or the number of men who like me. My worth as a human being is measured on a higher scale: a scale of righteousness and piety. And my purpose in life-despite what fashion magazines say-is something more sublime than just looking good for men.

A simple life is not seeing how little we can get by with—that’s poverty—but how efficiently we can put first things first. . . . When you’re clear about your purpose and your priorities, you can painlessly discard whatever does not support these, whether it’s clutter in your cabinets or commitments on your calendar. (148)

Great minds have purpose, others have wishes. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortunes; but great minds rise above them.

Washington Irving

You can have anything you want if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.

Abraham Lincoln

It is not true that everyone is special. It is true that everyone was once special and still possesses the ability to recover it.

You were not meant for a mundane or mediocre life!

To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.

Robert M. Pirsig

Here is a test to find out whether your mission in life is complete. If you’re alive, it isn’t.

There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose.

Charles Dickens

The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything.

Like most North Americans of his generation, Hal tends to know way less about why he feels certain ways about the objects and pursuits he's devoted to than he does about the objects and pursuits themselves. It's hard to say for sure whether this is even exceptionally bad, this tendency.

David Foster Wallace

The purpose of life is a life of purpose.

This is why I'm here on this planet, at this time, Francesca. Not to travel or make pictures, but to love you. I know that now. I have been falling from the rim of a great, high place, somewhere back in time, for many more years than I have lived in this life. And through all of those years, I have been falling toward you.

Robert James Waller

The purpose of influence is to "speak up for those who have no influence." (Pr.31:8) It's not about you.

Find the thing you want to do most intensely, make sure that’s it, and do it with all your might. If you live, well and good. If you die, well and good. Your purpose is done

H.G.Wells

He does have surprising, secret purposes. I open a Bible, and His plans, startling, lie there barefaced. It’s hard to believe it, when I read it, and I have to come back to it many times, feel long across those words, make sure they are real. His love letter forever silences any doubts: “His secret purpose framed from the very beginning [is] to bring us to our full glory” (1 Corinthians 2:7 NEB).

Pride makes us long for a solution to things – a solution, a purpose, a final cause; but the better telescopes become, the more stars appear.

In Maycomb, if one went for a walk with no definite purpose in mind, it was correct to believe one's mind incapable of definite purpose.

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

In the beginning, God created the earth, and he looked upon it in His cosmic loneliness.And God said, "Let Us make living creatures out of mud, so the mud can see what We have done." And God created every living creature that now moveth, and one was man. Mud as man alone could speak. God leaned close to mud as man sat up, looked around, and spoke. Man blinked. "What is the purpose of all this?" he asked politely."Everything must have a purpose?" asked God."Certainly," said man."Then I leave it to you to think of one for all this," said God.And He went away.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it

What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Nothing is more creative... nor destructive... than a brilliant mind with a purpose.

Dan Brown

Cat: Where are you going?Alice: Which way should I go?Cat: That depends on where you are going.Alice: I don’t know.Cat: Then it doesn’t matter which way you go.

Life here on Earth is promised suffering and one needs to find ways to live through it. Many people turn to meditation and prayer—anything that can connect us deeper into ourselves and with the divine.

Kat Lahr

It is our ultimate purpose to continually evolve as a species both physically and emotionally, as change is the mechanism for growth and development, and if we fear change we stunt our own growth and with it, human evolution.

Kat Lahr

Fate’ and ‘coincidence’ are the mythological derivatives authored by those who refuse to see a ‘greater purpose’, because such a conclusion would naturally suggest a ‘Greater Being’.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

You'll only beat your fears once you get to the point where you care more about your purpose than what people think of you.

Adam Kirk Smith

If we know who we are and have gone through a process of self-identification in accordance with the creator’s plan, we will no longer undervalue ourselves or be afraid

The rich people of this world fear only one thing: death

Do not be afraid of living without family- be afraid of living an empty and meaningless life

We fear that we are ugly, that we cannot succeed and we are afraid of something

But for many people, a huge part of the energy goes into the struggle with complexes, fear, worries, anxiety, and the energy cannot be used to achieve goals and dreams

Fear of failure is expressed in negative goal-setting, indecisiveness, and fear of adverse consequences

Complex steels our energy with the help of misgivings, strains, and fear of consequences for wrong decisions

Fear of failure impedes adequate self-identification

We will understand that fear is not a special feature of human being, if we saw ourselves from the creator’s point of view

People with a distinctly displayed fear of failure are prone to do their work well and with good coordination only in a case when their task require simple skills

Fear of failure is one of the principal fears creating obstacles in the way of successful self-actualization and achieving goals

The feelings of guilt takes away self-confidence, reduces self-esteem welcomes fear, confusion, disappointment, depression etc.

Don’t be too scared to calculate risks

Why escape your intended purpose by copying and trying to be someone else? You will discover who you were meant to be only after you have shown confidence being yourself.

Of all the questions I have asked my readers this is the most important: What would you do if you weren't afraid? When you finally give wings to that answer then you have found your life's purpose.

Shannon L. Alder

Materialism allows for a greater vision!

Stephen Richards

Serenity within the chaos of life is there to be discovered, just look within yourself for it.

Stephen Richards

Sometimes only when opportunity stops banging to be let in do we notice its absence!

Stephen Richards

Everything is energy, and energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can only be changed or mutated from one form to another.

Stephen Richards

When you begin to entertain the more positive possibilities, hope for the best, plan for the best and expect the best, your eventual attraction of the best possible circumstances is almost guaranteed.

Stephen Richards

Abundance does not come in packages, it comes from the happiness within.

Stephen Richards

Your level of vibration runs parallel with your feelings, meaning you are in control of your life and the events that come into your life at any given moment.

Stephen Richards

Base your self-esteem on truth.

Stephen Richards

Gratitude raises your awareness and focus and it can inspire you to achieve better for yourself and the people around you.

Stephen Richards

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