Your Purpose In Life Quotes

Success is... knowing your purpose in life, growing to reach your maximum potential, and sowing seeds that benefit others.

John C. Maxwell

Inspirational, Inspiring, Success

John C. Maxwell (2002). “Your Road Map For Success: You Can Get There from Here”, p.11, Thomas Nelson Inc

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The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.

Pablo Picasso

Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

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If you can't figure out your purpose, figure out your passion. For your passion will lead you right into your purpose.

T. D. Jakes

Inspirational, Motivation, Passion

Twitter post from Jan 18, 2017

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The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love, Inspirational, Life

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The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.

Mark Twain

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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The best way to succeed is to discover what you love and find a way to offer it to others.

Oprah Winfrey

Strong Women, Empowering, Individuality

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Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.

Marian Wright Edelman

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

Marian Wright Edelman (2013). “The Measure of our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours”, p.15, Beacon Press

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The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.

Albert Schweitzer

Inspirational, Sympathy, Helping Others

The Schweitzer Album It is our duty to remember at all times and anew that medicine is not only a science, but also the art of letting our own individuality interact with the individuality of the patient.

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My goal in life is to live my life in such a way that when I die, someone can say, she cared

Mary Kay Ash

Goal, Purpose, Way

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Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it

Gautama Buddha

Monday, Work, Heart

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Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.

Les Brown

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives. If you don't know where you're aiming, you don't have a goal. My goal is to live my life in such a way that when I die, someone can say, she cared.

Mary Kay Ash

Inspirational, Life, Ambition

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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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Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

Washington Irving

Inspirational, Positive, Meaningful

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Strange is our situation here on earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose.

Albert Einstein

Memorable, Knowing, Purpose

Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.230, Princeton University Press

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I've come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that's as unique as a fingerprint - and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard, and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you.

Oprah Winfrey

Inspirational, Success, Spiritual

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I cannot believe that the purpose of life is to be happy. I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be compassionate. It is, above all to matter, to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all.

Leo Rosten

Inspirational, Life, Happiness

Leo Rosten (1978). “Passions & Prejudices: Or, Some of My Best Friends are People”

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If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

Jim Rohn

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Oct 06, 2015

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Effort and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

John F. Kennedy

Inspirational, Leadership, Basketball

John F. Kennedy's Speech at the Coliseum, Raleigh, North Carolina, September 17, 1960.

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The purpose of life is not to be happy, the purpose of life is to matter.

Leo Rosten

Kindness, Thoughtful, Purpose

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Strange is our situation here upon earth.

Albert Einstein

Interesting, Earth Day, Strange

Albert Einstein (2013). “Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb”, p.226, Princeton University Press

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The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.

Michelangelo

Inspirational, Life, Positive

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No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Denis Waitley

Motivational, Teamwork, Men

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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.

Steve Jobs

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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