Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Purpose Quotes
AgingLife StagesPurposeSignificance A human being would certainly not grow to be seventy or eighty years old if this longevity had no meaning for the species. The afternoon of human life must also have a significance of its own and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life's morning.
CourageDefianceLiving FullyPurpose We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.
CareerCommitmentDedicationPurposeSelf Belief Unless a man believes in himself and makes a total commitment to his career and puts everything he has into it - his mind, his body, his heart - what's life worth to him?
AcceptanceMindfulnessPurposeSelf-DiscoveryWisdom What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.
FutureHumanityInspirationPurposeSpace Exploration There have to be reasons that you get up in the morning and you want to live. Why do you want to live? What's the point? What inspires you? What do you love about the future? If the future does not include being out there among the stars and being a multi-planet species, I find that incredibly depressing.
ContentmentDirectionHealthPurpose Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.
Overcoming AdversityPerseverancePurposeRevenge I tried acting, liked it, and stuck with it. I saw it as the way I would keep that promise to myself of getting back at those who had made my school life a misery.
GuidancePracticePurposeTheory He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.
HealthLiving FullyNo RegretsPurpose Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.
BusinessCustomer FocusMarketingPurposeValue Creation The purpose of a business is to create a customer.
AmbitionPurposeSacrificeSelf-Discovery Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.
PurposeSelf-awarenessSelf-ControlWisdom The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.
Human ConditionMortalityPurposeSuffering No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.
CommitmentConvictionPurposeSacrifice We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.
FaithLessonsPurposeResilience God has his plans and his reasons. Sometimes we are supposed to go through things so that we learn lessons.
CreativityIdentityInfluencePurposeSelf-Expression Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.
EnlightenmentExistencePurpose As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
DeterminationFaithHopePerseverancePurpose The astronomer will believe that the most erratic comet will yet accomplish its journey and revisit our sphere; but we give up those for lost who have not wandered one-half the distance from the centre of light and life.
