Quotes about Purpose

Poet Ralph Waldo Emerson said, "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.

If a man hasn't discovered something he will die for, he isn't fit to live." —Martin Luther King Jr.

See the big picture. Your place on the team makes sense only in the context of the big picture. If your only motivation for finding your niche is personal gain, your poor motives may prevent you from discovering what you desire.

When you live each day with intentionality, there's almost no limit to what you can do. You can transform yourself, your family, your community, and your nation. When enough people do that, they can change the world. When you intentionally use your everyday life to bring about positive change in the lives of others, you begin to live a life that matters.

Each day is an unrepeatable miracle. Today will never happen again, so we must make it count.

To reach your potential you must grow. And to grow, you must be highly intentional about it.

Nothing much happens without a dream. For something really great to happen, it takes a really great dream.

If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they may have planned for you? Not much." —JIM ROHN

You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have really lived, are the moments when you have done things in a spirit of love.

When you know your purpose and priorities and you have ordered your day, week, or year according to them, you have a clarity of thought that strengthens everything you do.

Uniformity is not the key to successful teamwork. The glue that holds a team together is unity of purpose.

When you get right down to it, intentional living is about living your best story.