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I hope you find value in these encouraging quotes about Purposes.
We're so engaged in doing things
to achieve purposes of outer value
that we forget the inner value,
the rapture that is associated
with being alive, is what it is all about.
- Joseph Campbell
Related topics: Inspirational Values Purpose
Great minds have purposes others have wishes.
- Washington Irving
The Science of Mind is intensely practical
because it teaches us how to use
the Mind Principle for definite purposes,
such as helping those who are sick, impoverished, or unhappy.
- Ernest Holmes
Is the system going to flatten you out
and deny you your humanity,
or are you going to be able to make use of the system
to the attainment of human purposes?
- Joseph Campbell
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
The future belongs to those
who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The Main Thing is to Keep
The Main Thing The Main Thing.
- Stephen Covey
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
To lead a great life:
Dream, Take Action, Repeat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Find a time and place of solitude.
Look into the distance, and into the future.
Visualize the tomorrow you are going to build -
and begin to build that tomorrow, today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The best way to cheer yourself
is to try to cheer someone else up.
- Mark Twain
Winners Dream Big Dreams.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No wind favors he who has no destined port.
- Montaigne
If not us, who, if not now, when?
- Anonymous
Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose.
- Leonardo da Vinci
The miracle is not that we do this work,
but that we are happy to do it.
- Mother Teresa
If a man does not know what port he is steering for,
no wind is favorable to him.
- Seneca
It is never too late to become what you might have been.
- George Eliot
The purpose of life is a life of purpose.
- Robert Byrne
If you don't know what you want, you will probably never get it.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
You should not confuse your career with your life.
- Dave Barry
Nothing happens unless first a dream.
- Carl Sandburg
"Hurry up" ranks right up there with "you need to"
as a destroyer of our humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Begin each day as if it were on purpose.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
To live is to choose. But to choose well,
you must know who you are and what you stand for,
where you want to go and why you want to get there.
- Kofi Annan
When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves
and our own self-preservation,
we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
- Joseph Campbell
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
Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed,
and in such desperate enterprises?
If a man does not keep pace with his companions,
perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
- Henry David Thoreau
It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants.
The question is: What are we busy about?
- Henry David Thoreau
More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent.
- Billy Sunday
What you are is God's gift to you:
what you become is your gift to god.
- Anthony Dalla Villa
March to the beat of your own drum.
- Proverb
If one advances confidently
in the direction of his dreams,
and endeavors to live
the life which he has imagined,
he will meet with success
unexpected in common hours.
- Henry David Thoreau
With realization of one's own potential and
self-confidence in one's ability,
one can build a better world.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Success demands singleness of purpose.
- Vince Lombardi
The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
- Benjamin Disraeli
The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
A hero is someone who has given his life to
something bigger than himself
or something other than himself.
- Joseph Campbell
Only put off until tomorrow
what you are willing to die having left undone.
- Pablo Picasso
I will act as if what I do makes a difference.
- William James
You will never find time for anything.
If you want time you must make it.
- Charles Buxton
What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us;
what we have done for others and the world
remains and is immortal.
- Albert Pike
The important thing is this: to be able, at any moment,
to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.
- Charles Du Bos (1882-1939), from his book Approximations (1922)
(not Charles DuBois or Maharishi Mahesh Yogi)
Your work is to discover your world
and then with all your heart give yourself to it.
- The Buddha
Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.
- John F. Kennedy
The meaning of Life is whatever we Choose.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
- Albert Einstein
Be resolute in your goals,
but flexible in your tactics.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Whatever you do or don't do in your lifetime,
your best contribution to those around you
and to future generations
will be in the happiness and joy
you generated and radiated to those around you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
People are not lazy.
They simply have impotent goals -
that is, goals that do not inspire them.
- Tony Robbins
We ourselves feel that what we are doing
is just a drop in the ocean.
But the ocean would be less
because of that missing drop.
- Mother Teresa
Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing
a human being to a purpose.
- Albert Schweitzer
All successful people men and women are big dreamers.
They imagine what their future could be,
ideal in every respect,
and then they work every day toward
their distant vision,
that goal or purpose.
- Brian Tracy
I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know:
the only ones among you who will be really happy
are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for,
he isn't fit to live.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
No one saves us but ourselves.
No one can and no one may.
We ourselves must walk the path.
- The Buddha
Only one who devotes himself to a cause
with his whole strength and soul
can be a true master.
For this reason mastery demands all of a person.
- Albert Einstein
No individual has any right to come into the world
and go out of it without leaving something behind.
- George Washington Carver
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself,
and know that everything in life has purpose.
There are no mistakes, no coincidences,
all events are blessings given to us to learn from.
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
The law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world.
To be effective it demands the sacrifice
of the bravest and the most spotless.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
If a man loses pace with his companions,
perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
Let him step to the music which he hears,
however measured or far away.
- Henry David Thoreau
Questioning cultural norms opens new vistas of happiness and purpose.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Without deep reflection,
one knows from daily life
that one exists for other people.
- Albert Einstein
The indispensable first step to getting
the things you want out of life is this:
Decide what you want.
- Ben Stein
If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely.
It is absolutely touch and go.
Each one of us could make the difference.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Going nowhere faster will not get you somewhere.
- Alan Cohen
If a man does not keep pace with his companions,
perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
- Henry David Thoreau
Do you have a plan for your life?
If not, allocate some time today to sit quietly
with pen and paper to begin writing your life plan -
what you want to accomplish with your life,
and what projects will support your goals.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Humility is not thinking less of yourself,
it's thinking of yourself less.
- Rick Warren (author of The Purpose Driven(R) Life)
Opening my mind to Spirit, I trust my intuition to deliver
powerful visions of my inspired future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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