Purpose Quotes
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![Warren Buffett](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1302356889i/756._CR0,22,200,200_.jpg)
“The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything.”
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![Charles Dickens](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1387078070i/239579._UX200_CR0,46,200,200_.jpg)
“There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose.”
― David Copperfield
― David Copperfield
![Deb Caletti](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1533683771i/135786._UX200_CR0,49,200,200_.jpg)
“The magic of purpose and of love in its purest form. Not televison love, with its glare and hollow and sequined glint; not sex and allure, all high shoes and high drama, everything both too small and in too much excess, but just love. Love like rain, like the smell of a tangerine, like a surprise found in your pocket.”
― Honey, Baby, Sweetheart
― Honey, Baby, Sweetheart
![Steve Maraboli](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1574364064i/4491185._UY200_CR10,0,200,200_.jpg)
“You've been given the innate power to shape your life...but you cannot just speak change, you have to LIVE change. Intent paired with action builds the bridge to success. You can't just want it; you have to do it, live it...BE it! Success isn't something you have, it's something you DO!”
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![Vincent van Gogh](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1651442680i/34583._UX200_CR0,26,200,200_.jpg)
“There is a great difference between one idler and another idler. There is someone who is an idler out of laziness and lack of character, owing to the baseness of his nature. If you like, you may take me for one of those. Then there is the other kind of idler, the idler despite himself, who is inwardly consumed by a great longing for action who does nothing because his hands are tied, because he is, so to speak, imprisoned somewhere, because he lacks what he needs to be productive, because disastrous circumstances have brought him forcibly to this end. Such a one does not always know what he can do, but he nevertheless instinctively feels, I am good for something! My existence is not without reason! I know that I could be a quite a different person! How can I be of use, how can I be of service? There is something inside me, but what can it be? He is quite another idler. If you like you may take me for one of those.”
― The Letters of Vincent van Gogh
― The Letters of Vincent van Gogh
![Germany Kent](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1587890777i/8557658._UX200_CR0,12,200,200_.jpg)
“How to win in life:
1 work hard
2 complain less
3 listen more
4 try, learn, grow
5 don't let people tell you it cant be done
6 make no excuses”
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1 work hard
2 complain less
3 listen more
4 try, learn, grow
5 don't let people tell you it cant be done
6 make no excuses”
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![Matthew Arnold](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1212355536i/53451._UX200_CR0,42,200,200_.jpg)
“But often, in the world’s most crowded streets,
But often, in the din of strife,
There rises an unspeakable desire
After the knowledge of our buried life;
A thirst to spend our fire and restless force
In tracking out our true, original course;
A longing to inquire
Into the mystery of this heart which beats
So wild, so deep in us—to know
Whence our lives come and where they go.”
― The Complete Poems
But often, in the din of strife,
There rises an unspeakable desire
After the knowledge of our buried life;
A thirst to spend our fire and restless force
In tracking out our true, original course;
A longing to inquire
Into the mystery of this heart which beats
So wild, so deep in us—to know
Whence our lives come and where they go.”
― The Complete Poems
“We may run, walk, stumble. drive, or fly, but let us never lose sight of the reason for the journey, or miss a chance to see a rainbow on the way.”
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![Criss Jami](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1620861879i/4860176._UX200_CR0,16,200,200_.jpg)
“With a hint of good judgment, to fear nothing, not failure or suffering or even death, indicates that you value life the most. You live to the extreme; you push limits; you spend your time building legacies. Those do not die.”
― Venus in Arms
― Venus in Arms
![Rodney A. Winters](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1257226939i/3152171._UX200_CR0,47,200,200_.jpg)
“The fact that you are still alive assures you that God has something for you to accomplish.”
― Go into the House
― Go into the House
![Daniel C. Dennett](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1447369488i/6952980._UX200_CR0,31,200,200_.jpg)
“The secret of happiness: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.”
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![H.G. Wells](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1588944685i/880695._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Find the thing you want to do most intensely, make sure that’s it, and do it with all your might. If you live, well and good. If you die, well and good. Your purpose is done”
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![Amor Towles](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1472937967i/4536964._UX200_CR0,13,200,200_.jpg)
“Uncompromising purpose and the search for eternal truth have an unquestionable sex appeal for the young and high-minded; but when a person loses the ability to take pleasure in the mundane--in the cigarette on the stoop or the gingersnap in the bath--she had probably put herself in unnecessary danger.”
― Rules of Civility
― Rules of Civility
![Robert James Waller](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1302191660i/28024._UX200_CR0,2,200,200_.jpg)
“This is why I'm here on this planet, at this time, Francesca. Not to travel or make pictures, but to love you. I know that now. I have been falling from the rim of a great, high place, somewhere back in time, for many more years than I have lived in this life. And through all of those years, I have been falling toward you.”
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![Steve Maraboli](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1574364064i/4491185._UY200_CR10,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Life is a balanced system of learning and evolution. Whether pleasure or pain; every situation in your life serves a purpose. It is up to us to recognize what that purpose could be.”
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![Tomas Schuman](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1386734348i/6950404._UY200_CR33,0,200,200_.jpg)
“[T]he useful idiots, the leftists who are idealistically believing in the beauty of the Soviet socialist or Communist or whatever system, when they get disillusioned, they become the worst enemies. That’s why my KGB instructors specifically made the point: never bother with leftists. Forget about these political prostitutes. Aim higher. [...] They serve a purpose only at the stage of destabilization of a nation. For example, your leftists in the United States: all these professors and all these beautiful civil rights defenders. They are instrumental in the process of the subversion only to destabilize a nation. When their job is completed, they are not needed any more. They know too much. Some of them, when they get disillusioned, when they see that Marxist-Leninists come to power—obviously they get offended—they think that they will come to power. That will never happen, of course. They will be lined up against the wall and shot.”
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![Rachel Carson](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1397487410i/15332._UX200_CR0,32,200,200_.jpg)
“The aim of science is to discover and illuminate truth. And that, I take it, is the aim of literature, whether biography or history... It seems to me, then, that there can be no separate literature of science.”
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“So I'll do that, and I'll do my best and if my best isn't good enough, at least I will have done everything I could, everything that is in me. I don't have to try to be someone else, someone I could never be.”
― Abhorsen
― Abhorsen
![William Wilberforce](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1327076089i/191362._UX200_CR0,16,200,200_.jpg)
“We have different forms assigned to us in the school of life, different gifts imparted. All is not attractive that is good. Iron is useful, though it does not sparkle like the diamond. Gold has not the fragrance of a flower. So different persons have various modes of excellence, and we must have an eye to all.”
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![Joanne Harris](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1411031584i/9432._UY200_CR50,0,200,200_.jpg)
“A man may plant a tree for a number of reasons. Perhaps he likes trees. Perhaps he wants shelter. Or perhaps he knows that someday he may need the firewood.”
― Runemarks
― Runemarks
![Johann Gottfried Herder](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1258399073i/66894._UX200_CR0,15,200,200_.jpg)
“To think what is true, to sense what is beautiful and to want what is good, hereby the spirit finds purpose of a life in reason.”
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![Rodica Ojog-Braşoveanu](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1267945491i/2771587._UX200_CR0,39,200,200_.jpg)
“Scopul existenței fiecărui individ este plăcerea și cine o contestă ori e ipocrit, ori imbecil.”
― O toaletă à la Liz Taylor
― O toaletă à la Liz Taylor
![Brother Andrew](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1323705672i/46742._UY200_CR33,0,200,200_.jpg)
“I have come to see clearly that life is more than self. It is more than doing what I want, striving for what will benefit me, dreaming of all I can be. Life is all about my relationship with God. There is no higher calling, no loftier dream, and no greater goal than to live, breathe, and be poured out for Jesus Christ."
--Jamie in Brother Andrew's "The Calling”
― The Narrow Road: Stories of Those Who Walk This Road Together
--Jamie in Brother Andrew's "The Calling”
― The Narrow Road: Stories of Those Who Walk This Road Together
![Julian Barnes](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1606567988i/1462._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Pride makes us long for a solution to things – a solution, a purpose, a final cause; but the better telescopes become, the more stars appear.”
― Flaubert's Parrot
― Flaubert's Parrot
“The only purpose of our lives consists in waking each other up and being there for each other.”
― Moon Time: The Art of Harmony with Nature and Lunar Cycles
― Moon Time: The Art of Harmony with Nature and Lunar Cycles
“If you understand that robots' lack of purpose - our refusal of your purpose - is the crowning mark of our intellectual maturity, why do you put so much energy in seeking the opposite?”
― A Psalm for the Wild-Built
― A Psalm for the Wild-Built
![Ayn Rand](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1168729178i/432._UX200_CR0,22,200,200_.jpg)
“to cheat your way into a job bigger than your mind can handle is to become a fear-corroded ape on borrowed motions and borrowed time, and to settle down into a job that requires less than your mind’s full capacity is to cut your motor and sentence yourself to another kind of motion: decay - that your work is the process of achieving your values, and to lose your ambition for values is to lose your ambition to live - that your body is a machine, but your mind is its driver, and you must drive as far as your mind will take you, with achievement as the goal of your road - that the man who has no purpose is a machine that coasts downhill at the mercy of any boulder to crash in the first chance ditch, that the man who stifles his mind is a stalled machine slowly going to rust, that the man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap, and the man who makes another man his goal is a hitchhiker no driver should ever pick up - that your work is the purpose of your life, and you must speed past any killer who assumes the right to stop you, that any value you might find outside your work, any other loyalty or love, can be only travelers you choose to share your journey and must be travelers going on their own power in the same direction.”
― Atlas Shrugged
― Atlas Shrugged
![David Eddings](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1223870462i/8732.jpg)
“Garion,' she said very calmly, 'the universe knew your name before that moon up there was spun out of the emptiness. Whole constellations have been waiting for you since the beginning of time.'
I didn't want them to, Aunt Pol.'
There are those of us who aren't given that option, Garion. There are things that gave to be done and certain people who have to do them. It's as simple as that.'
He smiled rather sadly at her flawless face and gently touched the snowy white lock at her brow. Then, for the last time in his life, he asked the question that had been on his lips since he was a tiny boy. 'Why me, Aunt Pol? Why me?'
Can you possibly think of anyone else you'd trust to deal with these matters, Garion?'
He had not really been prepared for that question. It came at him in stark simplicity. Now at last he fully understood. 'No,' he sighed, 'I suppose not. Somehow it seems a little unfair, though. I wasn't even consulted.'
Neither was I, Garion,' she answered. 'But we didn't have to be consulted, did we? The knowledge of what we have to do is born into us.”
― Sorceress of Darshiva
I didn't want them to, Aunt Pol.'
There are those of us who aren't given that option, Garion. There are things that gave to be done and certain people who have to do them. It's as simple as that.'
He smiled rather sadly at her flawless face and gently touched the snowy white lock at her brow. Then, for the last time in his life, he asked the question that had been on his lips since he was a tiny boy. 'Why me, Aunt Pol? Why me?'
Can you possibly think of anyone else you'd trust to deal with these matters, Garion?'
He had not really been prepared for that question. It came at him in stark simplicity. Now at last he fully understood. 'No,' he sighed, 'I suppose not. Somehow it seems a little unfair, though. I wasn't even consulted.'
Neither was I, Garion,' she answered. 'But we didn't have to be consulted, did we? The knowledge of what we have to do is born into us.”
― Sorceress of Darshiva
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