Powerful Quotes on Finding Your Life's Purpose

Powerful Quotes on Finding Your Life's Purpose:

"The goal of childhood is to become an individual; the goal of adulthood is to give that individuality away. The task of childhood is to separate; the task of adulthood is to connect." —James W. Jones


"The best career advice to give the young is, find out what you like doing best and get someone else to pay you for doing it." —Katherine Whilehaen

"The gem cannot be polished without friction nor man without trials." —Confucius

"Hands that serve are holier than lips that pray." —Sai Baba

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment." —Ralph Waldo Emerson

"You will recognize your own path when you come upon it, because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need." —Jerry Gillies

"Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved." —Jeremy Kitson

"The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others." —Mohandas K. Gandhi

"The height of your accomplishments will equal the depth of your convictions." —William F. Scolavino

"I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be honorable, to be compassionate. It is, after all, to matter: to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all." —Leo C. Rosten

"Toil and risk are the price of glory, but it is a lovely thing to live with courage and die leaving an everlasting fame." —Alexander the Great

"To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity." —Donald A. Adams

"Dignity and respect has to do with ... your personal power to make a difference by being true to the best within you and letting that truth shine through your words and actions." —Gail Pursell Elliott

"When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds: Your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new, great, and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and you discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be." —Patanjali

"You will recognize your own path when you come upon it, because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need." —Jerry Gillies

"Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, 'This is the real me,' and when you have found that attitude, follow it." —William James

"When you see what you're here for, the world begins to mirror your purpose in a magical way. It's almost as if you suddenly find yourself on a stage in a play that was written expressly for you." —Betty Sue Flowers

"We seek purpose when we are not in touch with who we really are. When an apple tree discovers who it is, the question 'what must I do?' disappears. When you discover who you are (at the deepest place of your being) you will find your purpose." —Colleen-Joy Page

"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life and don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. Most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become." —Steve Jobs

"Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are." —Malcolm Forbes

"True happiness is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose." –Helen Keller

"When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds: Your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new, great, and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and you discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be." —Patanjali

"We seek purpose when we are not in touch with who we really are. When an apple tree discovers who it is, the question 'what must I do?' disappears. When you discover who you are (at the deepest place of your being) you will find your purpose." —Colleen-Joy Page

"People who consider themselves victims of their circumstances will always remain victims unless they develop a greater vision for their lives." —Stedman Graham

"Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears." —Les Brown

"I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think." —Rumi

"Love without action is meaningless and action without love is irrelevant." —Deepak Chopra

"Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love." —Rumi

"Having a vision for your life allows you to live out of hope, rather than out of your fears." —Stedman Graham

"To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to do." —Kahlil Gibran

"I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be truly happy are those who have sought and found how to serve." —Albert Schweitzer

"If you want to know the past, to know what has caused you, look at yourself in the PRESENT, for that is the past's effect. If you want to know your future, then look at yourself in the PRESENT, for that is the cause of the future." —Majjhima Nikaya

"All of life is a near-death experience." —Alan Harris

"When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice." —Cherokee Expression

"There is a time to let things happen, and a time to make things happen."

"Life is what happens when you are making other plans." —John Lennon

"Circumstance does not make the man. Circumstance reveals man to himself." —Emerson

"Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity." —Henry Van Dyke

"Truly loving another means letting go of all expectations. It means full acceptance, even celebration of another's personhood." —Karen Casey

"It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing. It is not how much we give, but how much love we put in the giving." —Mother Teresa

"People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost." —Dalai Lama

"We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of Peace." –William E. Gladstone

"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing." –George Bernard Shaw

"I've come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that's as unique as a fingerprint - and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard, and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you." –Oprah Winfrey

"The purpose of life is not to fight against evil and misfortune; it is to unveil magnificence." –Alan Cohen

"Ships are safe within the harbor, but is that what ships are for?"

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Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose direction and begin to bend.  ~Walter Savage Landor


The purpose of life is a life of purpose.  ~Robert Byrne


To have no set purpose in one's life is the harlotry of the will.  ~Stephen MacKenna


Great minds have purposes, others have wishes.  ~Washington Irving


We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years, and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation.  ~George Bernard Shaw


An "unemployed" existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.  ~José Ortega y Gasset


A useless life is an early death.  ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


When he walks he casts a shadow of purpose.  ~Terri Guillemets


I love the valiant; but it is not enough to wield a broadsword, one must also know against whom.  ~Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra, 1892


There is a purpose to our lives that each day tugs at our sleeve as an annoying distraction.  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


We all possess the thunder of pure fury and the calm breeze of tranquility.  If it wasn't for tomorrow, how much would we get done today?  Whatever your purpose... embrace it completely.  Get lost in the clouds every now and then so you never lose sight of God's wonder.  ~Paul Vitale


When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.  ~Seneca


This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.  ~George Bernard Shaw


To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life.  ~Alan Coren, The Sanity Inspector, 1974


If Heaven made him - earth can find some use for him.  ~Chinese Proverb