Purpose Quotes - Page 21

• Wherever you are in life, look at your beliefs. They put you there

  Oprah Winfrey

  Love, Life, Looks

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• The best way to dispel negative thoughts is to require that they have a purpose.

  Robert Breault

  Attitude, Positive Thinking, Negative

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• I started out giving thanks for small things, and the more thankful I became, the more my bounty increased

  Oprah Winfrey

  Love, Life, Giving

  Oprah Winfrey (2014). “What I Know For Sure”, p.84, Macmillan

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• All trials force the question, Who are you really? And you must trust yourself to answer

  Oprah Winfrey

  Love, Life, Trials

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• When you don't give yourself the time and care you need, your body rebels in the form of sickness and exhaustion

  Oprah Winfrey

  Love, Life, Giving

  Oprah Winfrey (2014). “What I Know for Sure”, p.100, Pan Macmillan

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• Your journey begins with a choice to get up, step out, and live fully

  Oprah Winfrey

  Love, Life, Journey

  Oprah Winfrey (2014). “What I Know for Sure”, p.13, Pan Macmillan

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• You have the RIGHT to change your mind

  Oprah Winfrey

  Love, Life, Mind

  Twitter post from Mar 7, 2014

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• I could see no reason why used tram tickets, bits of driftwood, buttons and old junk from attics and rubbish heaps should not serve well as materials for paintings; they suited the purpose just as well as factory-made paints It is possible to cry out using bits of old rubbish, and that's what I did, gluing and nailing them together.

  Kurt Schwitters

  Together, Buttons, Junk

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• We are all individuals. I can't eat for you and you can't eat for me. I can't sleep for you and you can sleep for me. We are absolutely all individuals. When our purpose is fulfilled, it feels beautiful. That is, to me, the feeling of fulfillment.

  Prem Rawat

  Beautiful, Sleep, Feelings

  Speech in Miami, Florida, April 05, 1979.

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• The purpose of a college education is to give you the correct view of minorities, and the means to live as far away from them as possible.

  Joseph Sobran

  Mean, College, Views

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• It is because you have the typical American habit of seeing everything as a test. You see the mountain as your enemy and you set out to defeat it. So, naturally, the mountain fights back and it is stronger than you are. We do not see the mountain as our enemy to be conquered. The purpose of our climb is to become one with the mountain and so it lifts us up and carries us along.

  Harold S. Kushner

  Fighting, Enemy, Mountain

  Harold S Kushner (2011). “When All You've Ever Wanted Isn't Enough: The Search For a Life That Matters”, p.39, Pan Macmillan

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• What you're thinking, what you're saying, what you're doing, is having an impact on you and the people around you

  Oprah Winfrey

  Love, Life, Thinking

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• If things go wrong and you hit a dead end-as you will-it's just life's way of saying it's time to change course

  Oprah Winfrey

  Love, Life, Way

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• THE PATH OF PEACE is exceedingly vast, reflecting the grand design of the hidden and manifest worlds. A warrior is a living shrine of the divine, one who serves that grand purpose.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Warrior, Design, Shrines

  Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.73, Shambhala Publications

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• I love my life, because I’ve seen my purpose.

  Nick Vujicic

  Love Of My Life, I Love My Life

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Join the bold, the brazen, the unintimidated. Join not having excuses. Join the idea that fun is the source of all joy. Join the unwillingness to give up. Join doing things your way. Join not joining. Join that purpose is stronger than outcome. Join your gut. Join the constant challenge of seeking greatness. Join play. Join the hunger to find what makes you happy. Join karma and nature and the effect you have on your world. Join your philosophy. Join something bigger than you. Join what you believe.

  Bode Miller

  Karma, Giving Up, Fun

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• To live consciously means to seek to be aware of everything that bears on our actions, purposes, values, and goals—to the best of our ability, whatever that ability may be—and to behave in accordance with that which we see and know.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Mean, Goal, May

  Nathaniel Branden (1999). “The Art of Living Consciously: The Power of Awareness to Transform Everyday Life”, p.70, Simon and Schuster

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• Nothing is happy until it fulfills the purpose for which it was created by God.

  Jack Hyles

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• We are slaves of what we don't know;of what we know we are masters.Whatever vice or weakness in ourselves we discoverand understand its cause and workings,we overcome it by the very knowing.The primary purpose of meditation is to become more consciousand familiar with our inner life.The ultimate purpose is to reach the source of life.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Knowing, Meditation, Growth

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• We are superior to the competition because we hire employees who work in an environment of belonging and purpose. We foster a climate where the employee can deliver what the customer wants. You cannot deliver what the customer wants by controlling the employee.

  Horst Schulze

  Educational, Competition, Climate

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• A Christian can believe that God 'ordained' the 'powers that be' - including political rulers and slaveholders - for purposes too deep for us to understand fully, and that while they last we must provisionally accept them; but that they were not meant to last forever.

  Joseph Sobran

  Christian, Believe, Forever

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• If you don't know the purpose of something, all you can do is misuse it.

  Craig Groeschel

  Misuse, Knows, Can Do

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• Sanctified ignorance is the belief that if we love God and have committed our lives to Him, everything will work out…Sanctified ignorance is no excuse for a life out of alignment, lacking joy, fulfillment, and a clear sense of accomplishment…Look at how God has uniquely gifted you in your skills and abilities, personality traits, and values, dreams and passions. It is in these that we find the authentic path designed for us for a purpose-driven life.

  Dan Miller

  Dream, Passion, Ignorance

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• I don't think we are here for anything. We're just products of evolution. You can say, "Gee, your life must be pretty bleak if you don't think there's a purpose." But I'm anticipating a good lunch.

  James D. Watson

  Thinking, Lunch, Mindfulness

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• For all time to come, the freedom and purity of the press are the test of national virtue and independence. No writer for the press, however humble, is free from the burden of keeping his purpose high and his integrity white.

  John Boyle O'Reilly

  Integrity, Humble, White

  "Life of John Boyle O'Reilly, together with his complete poems and speeches edited by Mrs John Boyle O'Reilly" by James Jeffrey Roche, New York, (p. 195), 1891.

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