Your Purpose In Life Quotes - Page 2

• 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. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that man is here for the sake of other men - above all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.

  Albert Einstein

  Happiness, Journey, Men

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• Nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Positive, Perseverance, Determination

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• Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "P.S. I Love You: When Mom Wrote, She Always Saved the Best for Last". Book by H. Jackson Brown, Jr., March 1, 1991.

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• If you don't know where you are currently standing, you're dead.

  Samuel Beckett

  Baseball, Goals Dreams, Yankees

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

  Les Brown

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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  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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• 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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• Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

  Washington Irving

  Inspirational, Positive, Meaningful

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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  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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• Authentic freedom is actually the freedom of knowing who you are, why you are here, your purpose in life and where you are going when you leave here.

  Wayne Dyer

  Knowing Who You Are, Purpose, Where You Are

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• Your purpose in life is to use your gifts and talents to help other people. Your journey in life teaches you how to do that.

  Tom Krause

  Helping Others, Journey, People

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