Personal Purpose Quotes

Stop hoping for a completion of anything in life... Do what you love to do, what you are waiting to do, what you've been born to do, now.

I'm trying to get at this. That is, a man may know that he belongs to, say, a group - this group or that group - but he feels himself lost within that group, trapped within his own deficiencies and without personal purpose.

Maybe this is a made-up belief to preserve myself, but I do believe that everyone has a purpose, and my purpose is to put out music that means something.

It has been my purpose, since I have been placed in my present position, to make no speeches.

You were not put on this earth to do everything to be sexually appealing to people.

I think God’s hope and plan for us is pretty simple to figure out. For those who resonate with formulas, here it is: add your whole life, your loves, your passions, and your interests together with what God said He wants us to be about, and that’s your answer.

Discovering your purpose doesn't have to be complicated. Look at what you do and why you do it. Is it to support your family? That's your purpose. Is it to make a difference in your customer's life? That's your purpose.

I think first of all my purpose is to be me. I didn't come here to specifically be a role model or anything.

If you knew who God made you to be, you'd never want to be anyone else.

It was becoming clearer and clearer that if I wanted to come to the end of my life and not say, “I’ve wasted it!” then I would need to press all the way in, and all the way up, to the ultimate purpose of God and join him in it. If my life was to have a single, all-satisfying, unifying passion, it would have to be God’s passion.

Well, I have to write. A lot of people forget that. They think I’m sort of crazy baffoon who can’t make up his mind what to do in life

The self-discovery of your inherent leadership potential and an understanding of who you are and what you are meant to be are the keys to fulfilling your purpose from existence as a leader.

Purpose must be deliberately conceived and chosen, and then pursued.

You should carefully observe the way toward which your heart draws you, then choose this way with all your strength.

I work hard to show my mother that her child has a purpose.

Purpose is the thread that connects the dots to everything you do that leads you to an extraordinary life.

I don't ask myself what did I live for, said Carlene strongly. That is a man's question. I ask whom did I live for.

I try to find my way in the world you know, I try to be somebody instead of just, make money off of everybody.

Men are free when they are obeying some deep, inward voice of religious belief. Obeying from within. Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose. Not when they are escaping to some wild west. The most unfree souls go west, and shout of freedom.

I don't think there is a distinct change, because in the West I'm not a person who can serve his purpose.

I am really proud of the development of the people on my team as they grow in purpose; they like what they see in the mirror.

Our society is intertwined with the economy that we've built, which is a fantastically complex system. I hope that my writing about it might do some good, but that's not why I do it.

Find your purpose and fling your life out to it. Find a way or make one. Try with all your might. Self-made or never made.

My belief is in the chaos of the world and that you have to find your peace within the chaos and that you still have to find some sort of mission.

My purpose in life does not include a hankering to charm society.