Purpose Quotes

Great minds have purposes; little minds have wishes. Little minds are subdued by misfortunes; great minds rise above them.

If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life, that we give to the question of what to do with two weeks' vacation, we would be startled at our false standards and the aimless procession of our busy days.

If you don't stand up for something, you may fall for anything.

Life has a higher end, than to be amused.

Heads are strongest when they are cool and hearts are strongest when they beat in response to noble ideals.

To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.

You are here to enable the divine purpose of the universe to unfold. That is how important you are.

How strange is the lot of us mortals. Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he sometimes thinks he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.

Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.

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

If you engage in your world with anything less than purpose, you will be engulfed by that which surrounds you.

You've got to stand for something, or you're gonna fall for anything.

The purpose of life is a life of purpose.

The secret to success is constancy to purpose.

Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it.

The purpose of our lives is to give birth to the best which is within us.

The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there's purpose and worth to each and every life.

Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you're alive, it isn't.

We are here on earth to do good for others. What the others are here for, I don't know.