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. Ralph Waldo Emerson American Poet More Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes 64
Your purpose in life is to use your gifts and talents to help other people. Your journey in life teaches you how to do that. Tom Krause American motivational speaker More Tom Krause Quotes 5
Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe German Poet More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes 4
If you're alive, there's a purpose for your life. Rick Warren American Writer More Rick Warren Quotes 3
Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience. Dale Carnegie American Writer More Dale Carnegie Quotes 3
What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose. Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton More Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton Quotes 3
Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over again, and you will grow stronger until you have accomplished a purpose - not the one you began with perhaps, but one you'll be glad to remember. Anne Sullivan American Educator More Anne Sullivan Quotes 2
Everything happens for a reason and a purpose, and it serves you. Anthony Robbins American More Anthony Robbins Quotes 2
Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence. Aristotle Ancient Greek Philosopher More Aristotle Quotes 2
Because its purpose is to create a customer, your business has two purposes and two purposes only: Marketing and innovation. Marketing and innovation make you money, generate sales, produce profit. Everything else is an expense... Peter Drucker More Peter Drucker Quotes 2
When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds: Your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new, great, and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and your discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be. Patanjali More Patanjali Quotes 1
Illumination is the purpose of life; of the recurring sequence of birth and death. Atharva Veda More Atharva Veda Quotes 1
I never search for a reason why - I have faith in the Lord's purpose. Willie Stargell American Athlete More Willie Stargell Quotes 1
Economics has as its purpose firstly to acquire knowledge for its own sake, and secondly to throw light on practical issues. But though we are bound, before entering on any study, to consider carefully what are its uses, we should not plan out our work with direct reference to them. Alfred Marshall British More Alfred Marshall Quotes 1
The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. William Shakespeare English Dramatist More William Shakespeare Quotes 1
In the first period religious life appears as a form of discipline which the individual or a whole people must accept as an unconditional command without any rational understanding of the ultimate meaning and purpose of that command. Muhammed Iqbal Indian Poet More Muhammed Iqbal Quotes 1
A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose. Immanuel Kant German Philosopher More Immanuel Kant Quotes 1
So far as hypotheses are concerned, let no one expect anything certain from astronomy, which cannot furnish it, lest he accept as the truth ideas conceived for another purpose, and depart from this study a greater fool than when he entered it. Nicolaus Copernicus Polish Scientist More Nicolaus Copernicus Quotes 1
Visualization is daydreaming with a purpose. Bo Bennett American Businessman More Bo Bennett Quotes 1
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 American Writer More Mitch Albom Quotes 1
For us Africans, literature must serve a purpose: to expose, embarrass, and fight corruption and authoritarianism. It is understandable why the African artist is utilitarian. Ama Ata Aidoo Ghanaian Author More Ama Ata Aidoo Quotes 1