Quotes about Purpose
Life is too short to be small.
— Benjamin Disraeli
The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
— Ben Stein
Life's most persistent and urgent question is: "What are you doing for others?" Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
The purpose of human life is to serve and to show compassion and the will to help others.
— Albert Schweitzer
I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.
— DH Lawrence
It concerns us to know the purposes we seek in life, for then, like archers aiming at a definite mark, we shall be more likely to attain what we want.
— Aristotle
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it onto future generations.
— George Bernard Shaw
It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a 'wandering to find home,'' why should we not look forward to the arrival?
— CS Lewis
These then are my last words to you. Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
— William James
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross