True Purpose Quotes

• This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Life, True Joy

  Man and Superman epistle dedicatory (1903)

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• Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Letters”

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• This is the true joy of life-the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown to the scrap-heap; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish clod of ailments and grievances.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Motivational, Happiness, Laughter

  Man and Superman epistle dedicatory (1903)

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• Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Wise, Dream

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Letters”

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  What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, drama, and challenges, is a sense of purpose and meaning

  Barbara De Angelis

  Pain, Drama, Challenges

  Barbara De Angelis (1997). “Are You the One for Me? ; Real Moments”, Fine Communications

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• Human beings do not know their place and purpose. They have fallen from their true place, and lost their true purpose. They search everywhere for their place and purpose, with great anxiety. But they cannot find them because they are surrounded by darkness.

  Blaise Pascal

  Anxiety, Darkness, Purpose

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• Whatever you are struggling with, is a reminder for you to find your true purpose in this lifetime.

  Deepak Chopra

  Struggle, Purpose, Lifetime

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• Each of us should make the most of our lives. We should give life our best-let us use our lives more wisely to chase our dreams, find our true purpose, and be as happy and successful as possible.

  Malcolm X

  Dream, Successful, Giving

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• When a child keeps asking you to tell him/her a story, what they instinctively really want to know -- is their true purpose and mission in life. Sadly, this knowledge was never sought out by their parents, and explains why childrens books are a very hot and lucrative industry. Instead of telling your child the truth of our history and existence, you are conditioned by society to simply read your kid a fairytale.

  Suzy Kassem

  Children, Book, Kids

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• The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us.

  Anna Brownell Jameson

  Education, Purpose, Cherish

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• Work may be your dominant thought, and joy an afterthought. But joy is your true purpose, and work the afterthought.

  Alan Cohen

  Joy, Purpose, May

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• Better service for the customer is for the good of the public, and this is the true purpose of enterprise.

  Konosuke Matsushita

  Purpose, Enterprise, Customers

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• The true purpose of a business is to create and keep a customer, not to make you money.

  Theodore Levitt

  Purpose, Customers

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• Through fear of knowing who we really are we sidestep our own destiny, which leaves us hungry in a famine of our own making...we end up living numb, passionless lives, disconnected from our soul's true purpose. But when you have the courage to shape your life from the essence of who you are, you ignite, becoming truly alive.

  Dawna Markova

  Destiny, Essence, Knowing

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• The man who works 52 weeks in the year does not do his best in any one week of the year, Daniel Guggenheim, onetime head of the greatest smelting and mining family in America, impressed upon me. Real recreation quickens aspiration. The true purpose of recreation is not merely to amuse, not merely to afford pleasure, not merely to kill time, but to increase our fitness, enhance our usefulness, spur achievement.

  B. C. Forbes

  Real, Men, Years

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• It is when we create things for God's sake that our work most clearly promotes His glory, rather than threatening to compete with it. Thus the true purpose of art is the same as the true purpose of anything: it is not for ourselves or for our own self-expression, but for the service of others and the glory of God.

  Philip Graham Ryken

  Art, Self, Expression

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• The real joy in life comes from finding your true purpose and aligning it with what you do every single day.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Real, Joy

  Twitter post from Mar 01, 2016

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• The true purpose of education is to make minds, not careers.

  Chris Hedges

  Careers, Mind, Purpose

  Chris Hedges (2014). “Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle”, p.107, Nation Books

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• The true purpose of education is to prepare young men and women for effective citizenship in a free form of government.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Men, Purpose, Citizenship

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1960). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953”, p.301, Best Books on

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• A true desire is not to have but to be. We are whole creatures in potential, and the true purpose of desire is to unfold that wholeness, to become what we can be.

  Eric Butterworth

  Desire, Purpose, Creatures

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• Humanity's true purpose is not to become stronger physically, it's to become more intelligent-from armies, who increasingly fight with specialized units rather than regiments and tanks, to garage owners, who use a lot more than jacks to fix your engine. As intelligence prevails throughout humanity, maybe there'll be fewer wars and better cars.

  Georges St-Pierre

  War, Fighting, Army

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• Hand writing causes thinking - the repetition of writing your goal everyday will increase your awareness. The true purpose of a goal is to help you grow.

  Bob Proctor

  Writing, Thinking, Hands

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Jan 12, 2013

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• There is only one true purpose in life: to wake up from the delusion that you are separate from everything else.

  Chuck Hillig

  Life, Purpose, Wake Up

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• I’ve had to make the difficult decision to follow my intuition, and allow myself the space and time to explore my true purpose in life.

  Larry Sanders

  Space, Decision, Intuition

  "Why I Walked Away From the NBA (Video)" by Larry Sanders, www.theplayerstribune.com. February 25, 2015.

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• Self-realization is, in fact, the only religion. For it is the true purpose of religion, no matter how people define their beliefs.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Self, People, Religion

  Paramahansa Yogananda (1990). “The Essence of Self-Realization: The Wisdom of Paramhansa Yogananda”, Crystal Clarity Pubs

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