Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Purpose Quotes
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.
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.
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?
EnlightenmentExistencePurpose As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
BusinessCustomer FocusMarketingPurposeValue Creation The purpose of a business is to create a customer.
CommunityProfitabilityPurposeResponsibilityService No enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need, it performs some great service, not for itself, but for others; or failing therein, it ceases to be profitable and ceases to exist.
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.
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.
FriendshipPersonal GrowthPurposeSpirituality Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.
FaithLessonsPurposeResilience God has his plans and his reasons. Sometimes we are supposed to go through things so that we learn lessons.
CommitmentDutyHonestyPassionPurpose If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.
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.
CommitmentConvictionPurposeSacrifice We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.
HappinessPerspectivePurpose Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
CourageDefianceLiving FullyPurpose We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.
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.
GrowthPurposeSelf-DevelopmentTransformationValues The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.
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.
CreativityIdentityInfluencePurposeSelf-Expression Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.
AmbitionPurposeSacrificeSelf-Discovery Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.
