Purpose Quotes


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My heart is a gypsy - continuously searching for a home, fighting within itself, wondering whether it is weak or even right for that matter to be searching in the first place. Lonliness is what it feels like...

- Jenna Jameson

Looking good and dressing well is a necessity. Having a purpose in life is not.

- Oscar Wilde

Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What`s a sundial in the shade?

- Benjamin Franklin

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

A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere the careless, the most stupid thinker

- David Hume

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing it is not fish they are after.

- Henry David Thoreau

Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of life is to grasp as much as we can out of that infinitude

- Alfred North Whitehead

Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

- Charles H. Perkhurst

I believe in human dignity as the source of national purpose, human liberty as the source of national action, the human heart as the source of national compassion, and in the human mind as the source of our invention and our ideas

- John Fitzgerald Kennedy

I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.

- Og Mandino

Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.

- Plato
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Deliberately to pursue happinesss is not the surest way of achieving it. Seek it for its own sake and I doubt whether you will find it.

- Robert J. McCracken

A ship is safe in harbor, but that`s not what ships are for.

- William Shedd

I don`t want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.

- Zelda Fitzgerald

In the midst of excitement, grief, joy, and solitude, I remind myself every moment that the sole mission of my life is to find "the ultimate questioner" - that unimaginable who has put me in this madness to answer an unanswerable question.

- Kedar Joshi