Compilation of Quotes [Vol. 2]: Purpose

:: a collection of quotes on ‘purpose’ to inspire + propel :: 

pur·pose ::
1. the reason for which something exists or is done, made, used,etc.
2. an intended or desired result; end; aim; goal.
3. determination; resoluteness.
4. the subject in hand; the point at issue.
5. practical result, effect, or advantage: to act to good purpose.

“Be found at one’s post, living each day as though it were our last, but planning as though our world might last 100-years.” – C.S. Lewis

“I’ve been absolutely terrified every moment of my life – and I’ve never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.” – Georgia O’Keeffe

“The greatest danger to our future is apathy.”  - [Jane Goodall]

“It doesn’t matter what you did or where you were…it matters where you are and what you’re doing. Get out there! Sing the song in your heart and never let anyone shut you up!!” ― Steve Maraboli

“Give yourself values, grace + strength. Forget about your yesterday + yesterday’s problem… Today is for tomorrow.” – Yogi Bhajan

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“Nothing is more dangerous to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new + difference sun.” – Christopher McCandless

“God’s will. Nothing more. Nothing less. Nothing else.” – Elisabeth Elliot

“Efforts + courage are not enough without purpose + direction.” - John F. Kennedy

“I cannot believe that the purpose of life is to be happy. I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be compassionate. It is, above all to matter, to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all..”  ― Leo Rosten

“It is the rarest delight to find a pursuit both meaningful + profitable.” – James Pearson

“We can either keep listening to people’s sad stories, or spend our lives creating happy stories for people.” – Biju Thampy

Do one thing that’s heroic for you today – big or small – and fear won’t define you anymore.” – Bob Goff

“Never give up on the dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it.

The time will pass anyway.” – Earl Nightingale

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“I realized then that even though I was a tiny speck in an infinite cosmos, a blip on the timeline of eternity, I was not without purpose.” ― R.J. Anderson

“Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.” - Cecil Beaton

“Our job is not the harvest, our job is the seed.” – Carl Lentz

“Direction, not intention, determines destination.” – Andy Stanley

“To the person who does not know where he wants to go there is no favorable wind.” ― Seneca

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

“If you organise your life around your passion, you can turn your passion into your story + turn your story into something bigger – something that matters.” – Blake Canterbury

“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

“It’s simple. We’re where we should be, doing what we should be doing. Otherwise, we would be somewhere else, doing something else.” – R. Stine

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“Dedicate your life to a cause greater than yourself, + your life will become a glorious romance + adventure.” – Mark Douglas

“Make each day useful + cheerful + prove that you know the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be happy, old age without regret, + life a beautiful success.” – Louisa May Alcott

“If you don’t build up your dream someone will hire you to help build theirs.” – Tony Gaskins

“You don’t need more time, you just need to decide!” – Seth Godin

“Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” – Rabbi Hyman Schachter

“In every moment of your life you have a choice; to live your truth + light or diminish it. Be brilliant.” – Cory Booker

“When someone tells me ‘no’, it doesn’t mean I can’t do it, it simply means I can’t do it with them.” – Karen E. Quinones Miller

The purpose of life is a life of purpose. - [Robert Byrne]