Purpose Quotes

Human existence, at its core, is a constant search for **purpose**. It's not just an end, but the compass that guides our steps, and the meaning that gives value to our days.

Without purpose, we become a ship without a rudder, tossed by the waves of chance and randomness. Some find it in a profession, others in a relationship, or in a cause greater than themselves. But the search for it is a journey that requires deep contemplation and the courage to confront.

Is one born with a predetermined purpose, or does one discover and shape it during life's journey? This question has plagued philosophers and seekers of meaning since time immemorial.

Finding it is not the end of the journey, but its true beginning.

The following quotes are a summary of deep reflections on the meaning of life, existence, and the goals that drive us forward.

Quote by John C. Maxwell: Self fulfillment thinks of how something serves me. Self development thinks of how something helps m...
Quote by Kahlil Gibran: Let your bending in the Archer's hand be for gladness, for even as he loves the arrow that flies, so...
Quote by Ronald Reagan: May each of you have the heart to conceive, the understanding to direct, and the hand to execute wor...
Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out what he has to do; and to rest...
Quote by Amy Poehler: Vulnerable people are powerful people. Opening your heart and sharing it means you're going to get s...
Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson: Be a gift and a benediction....
Quote by Ray Bradbury: Everything that happens before Death is what counts....
Quote by Kahlil Gibran: If your knowledge teaches you not to rise above human weakness and misery and lead your fellow man o...
Quote by Dr. Seuss: Whats the point of fitting in, when we were meant to stand out?...
Quote by Henry David Thoreau: Men are born to succeed, not to fail....
Quote by Eleanor Roosevelt: Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on l...
Quote by George Sand: Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure....
Quote by Henry Ford: The only true test of values, either of men or of things, is that of their ability to make the world...
Quote by Wayne Dyer: There is only one time that is important-Now! It is the most important time because it is the only t...
Quote by Aristotle: Nature of man is not what he was born as, but what he is born for....
Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: The greater part of all the mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently ...
Quote by Oprah Winfrey: Your calling isn’t something that somebody can tell you about. It’s what you feel. It is the thing t...
Quote by C.S. Lewis: Our problem is not that we desire too much but too little....
Quote by Margaret Thatcher: What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing...
Quote by Theodore Roosevelt: Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing....
Quote by Indira Gandhi: Being prime minister isn't the only job in life! As far as I'm concerned, I could live in a village ...
Quote by Joseph Campbell: If you follow your bliss...the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living....
Quote by Dolly Parton: I hope to die right in the middle of a song and right on the stage doing what I love to do. I hope t...
Quote by Eckhart Tolle: If I thought it was my identity to be a spiritual teacher, that would be a delusion. It's not an ide...
Quote by Albert Einstein: The individual feels the vanity of human desires and aims, and the nobility and marvelous order whic...
Quote by Winston Churchill: We get to make a living; we give to make a life....
Quote by Victor Hugo: Idleness, pleasure, what abysses! To do nothing is a dreary course to take, be sure of it. To live i...
Quote by Aristotle: The purpose of the present study is not as it is in other inquiries, the attainment of knowledge, we...
Quote by Honoré de Balzac: Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence....
Quote by Winston Churchill: A man must choose his own way of life, and…it is only by following out one’s own bent that there can...
Quote by Tony Robbins: Everybody's life is either rewarding or an example....
Quote by William Shakespeare: But earthlier happy is the rose distill'dThan that which withering on the virgin thornGrows, lives, ...
Quote by Blaise Pascal: To speak freely of mathematics, I find it the highest exercise of the spirit; but at the same time I...
Quote by Eleanor Roosevelt: It is not more vacation we need — it is more vocation....
Quote by Henry David Thoreau: If thousands are thrown out of employment, it suggests that they were not well employed. Why don't t...
Quote by John D. Rockefeller: Who is the poorest man in the world? I tell you, the poorest man I know of is the man who has nothin...
Quote by Dalai Lama: Even a small act of compassion grants meaning and purpose to our lives....
Quote by George Sand: The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart....
Quote by Henry Van Dyke: To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall reall...
Quote by Ronald Reagan: Piling up material goods cannot fill the emptiness of lives which have no confidence or purpose....
Quote by Oscar Wilde: We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that ex...
Quote by Henry David Thoreau: The greatest tragedy in life is to spend your whole life fishing only to discover it was never fish ...
Quote by Mahatma Gandhi: Everything we do is futile, but we must do it anyway....
Quote by George Bernard Shaw: Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole ...
Quote by Oprah Winfrey: Ignoring your passion is like dying a slow death...Passion whispers to you through your feelings, be...
Quote by Oprah Winfrey: I have a sense of greatness, which comes from feeling that I'm doing what I'm supposed to be doing o...
Quote by Oprah Winfrey: The key is not to worry about being successful, but to instead to work toward being significant - an...
Quote by Thomas Jefferson: Nature intended me for the tranquil pursuits of science by rendering them my supreme delight....
Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson: Men are born to write. The gardener saves every slip, and seed, and peach-stone: his vocation is to ...
Quote by Frank Ocean: I've always wanted to make a career in the arts, and I think that my only hope at doing that is to m...
Quote by George Bernard Shaw: This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one....
Quote by Immanuel Kant: It is by his activities and not by enjoyment that man feels he is alive. In idleness we not only fee...
Quote by Henry David Thoreau: I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his...
Quote by Aristotle: Happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure, and make war th...
Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: A purpose you impart is no longer your own....
Quote by Albert Einstein: We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life. All that we need to make us...
Quote by John C. Maxwell: People have a seed to success within them. Most never find it and therefore fail to reach their pote...
Quote by Elbert Hubbard: Play needs direction as well as work....
Quote by George Bernard Shaw: If you're not producing as much as you consume, or perhaps a little more, then clearly we cannot use...
Quote by Eleanor Roosevelt: I consider those are rich who are doing something they feel worthwhile and which they enjoy doing....