Quotes on Purpose

Find purpose. The means will follow.

Power is the ability to achieve purpose.

When Mozart is playing in my room, I am in conjunction with something I can't explain... I don't need to. I know that if there's a purpose for life, it was for me to hear Mozart.

The church lies at the very center of the eternal purpose of God. It is not a divine afterthought.

The needs of others are ever present, and each of us can do something to help someone.... Unless we lose ourselves in service to others, there is little purpose to our own lives.

All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.

Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable. The purpose of life is to matter-to count, to stand for something, to have it make so difference that we lived at all.

Our prime purpose in life is to serve others.

The pursuit of your life is to come into [your] purpose. And the waste of your life is to miss that purpose.

Focusing on ourselves will never reveal our life's purpose.

The purpose of construction is TO MAKE THINGS HOLD TOGETHER; of architecture TO MOVE US.

Making money isn't the backbone of our guiding purpose; making money is the by-product of our guiding purpose. If you're doing something you love, you're more likely to put your all into it, and that generally equates to making money

Self pity is of the devil, and if I wallow in it, I cannot be used by God for his purpose in the world.

Ideas? My head is full of them, one after the other, but they serve no purpose there. They must be put down on paper, one after the other.

The blessed Religion revealed in the word of God will remain an eternal and awful monument to prove that the best Institution may be abused by human depravity; and that they may even, in some instances be made subservient to the vilest purposes.

I pray to be used in service to a greater purpose higher than my own

The purpose of poetry is to make life complete in itself.

Somewhere I heard a victorious "Yes" in answer to my question of the existence of ultimate purpose.

The very purpose of our life is happiness, which is sustained by hope. We have no guarantee about the future, but we exist in the hope of something better. Hope means keeping going, thinking, ‘I can do this.’ It brings inner strength, self-confidence , the ability to do what you do honestly, truthfully and transparently.

The purpose of an elevator pitch is to describe a situation or solution so compelling that the person you're with wants to hear more even after the elevator ride is over.

No man should be alone when he opposes Satan. The Church and the ministry of the Word were instituted for this purpose, that hands may be joined together and one may help another.