Quotes about Purpose

I have an irrepressible desire to live till I can be assured that the world is a little better for my having lived in it.

Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.

And in the end it is not the years in your life that count, it's the life in your years.

And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

How many people are not as good as they could be at their job because they don't love it? They're not passionate about it. If you don't like something, why are you doing it?

I think the story is important in every business. Why do you exist, why are you here, why is your product different, why should I pay attention, why should I care?

Americans are not a perfect people, but we are called to a perfect mission.

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

The ways of the Lord are not comfortable, but we were not created for comfort, but for greatness, for good.

Love has a particular trait: it has a task or purpose to fulfill - to abide. By its nature, love is enduring. The Holy Spirit offers our world love that dispels uncertainty; love that overcomes the fear of betrayal; love that carries eternity within; the true love that draws us into a unity that abides!

Freedom is the recognition that no single person, no single authority or government has a monopoly on the truth, but that every individual life is infinitely precious, that every one of us put in this world has been put there for a reason and has something to offer. It's so hard for government planners, no matter how sophisticated, to ever substitute for millions of individuals working night and day to make their dreams come true. The fact is, bureaucracies are a problem around the world.

God's real desire, in addition to displaying His glory, is to claim your heart and the hearts of those you love.