Living With Purpose Quotations

How do you discover your real purpose in life? I’m not talking about your job, your daily responsibilities, or even your long-term goals. I mean the real reason why you’re here at all — the very reason you exist.

The following inspirational quotes helped me understand a little clearer about living a life with purpose, and I hope they’ll be useful to you.

• “The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live to purpose.” -- Michel de Montaigne
  
  
• “A man should have any number of little aims about which he should be conscious and for which he should have names, but he should have neither name for, nor consciousness concerning, the main aim of his life.” -- Samuel Butler
  
  
• “Failures do what is tension relieving, while winners do what is goal achieving.” -- Dennis Waitley
  
  
• “A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.” -- Francis Bacon
  
  
• “The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success.” -- Henry Ward Beecher
  
  
• “The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business–or almost anywhere else for that matter.” -- Lee Iacocca
  
  
• “Live up to the best that is in you: Live noble lives, as you all may, in whatever condition you may find yourselves.” -- Henry W. Longfellow
  
  
• “What you are must always displease you, if you would attain to that which you are not.” -- Saint Augustine
  
  
• “If you have great talents, industry will improve them; If moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiencies. Nothing is denied to well-directed labor: nothing is ever to be attained without it.” -- Sir Joshua Reynolds
  
  
• “Practice yourself in little things, and thence proceed to greater.” -- Epictetus
  
  
• “Slumber not in the tents of your fathers! The world is advancing. Advance with it!” -- Mazzini
  
  
• “Discontent is the source of all trouble, but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.” -- Berthold Auerbach
  
  
• “The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self; to render our consciousness its own light and its own mirror.” -- Frederich Leopold von Hardenberg
  
  
• “Let us strive to improve ourselves, for we cannot remain stationary; one either progresses or retrogrades.” -- Mme. Du Deffand
  
  
• “Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.” -- Socrates
  
  
• “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  
  
• “You will never find time for anything. If you want the time, you must make it.” -- Charles Buxton
  
  
• “If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.” -- Ivan Turgenev
  
  
• “It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.” -- Ursula Le Guin
  
  
• “All successful people, men and women, are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.” -- Brian Tracy
  
  
• “We are each of us angels, with only one wing. We can only fly by embracing each other.” -- Lutiano
  
  
• “Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.” -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  
  
• “Losers visualize the penalties of failure and winners visualize the rewards of success.” -- Rod Gilbert
  
  
• “When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.” -- Charles A Beard
  
  
• “When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.” -- Helen Keller
  
  
• “In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.” -- Albert Camus
  
  
• “Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.” -- Abraham Lincoln
  
  
• “Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.” -- Albert Einstein
  
  
• “The secret of success is constancy to purpose.” -- Benjamin Disraeli
  
  
• “Look for good in every person and every situation. You’ll almost always find it.” -- Brian Tracy
  
  
• “Excellence is not a destination, it is a continuous journey that never ends.” -- Brian Tracy
  
  
• “Men with sight, see things as they are.
  Men with "insight", see things as they could be.” -- Joseph P. Martino
  
  
• “In the grand game and art called life, it is wise of one to cultivate an environment of: understanding, knowledge and purpose of heart to reach and attain all your noble and lofty goals in life, unlike others who pursue and chase vague,shallow and other meaningless trivial pursuits.” -- Joseph P. Martino
  
  
• “Life is like riding a bicycle, you don’t fall off unless you plan to stop peddling.” -- Claude Pepper
  
  
• “My interest in life comes from setting myself huge, apparently unachievable challenges and trying to rise above them.” -- Richard Branson
  
  
• “The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.” -- Oprah Winfrey
  
  
• “The greatest tragedy is not death, but life without purpose.” -- Rick Warren
  
  
• “A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.” -- William Shedd
  
  
• “The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.” -- Ben Stein
  
  
• “Be the change you want to see in the world.” -- Mahatma Gandhi
  
  
• “The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder - a waif, a nothing, a no man.” -- Thomas Carlyle
  
  
• “All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.” -- James Thurber
  
  
• “Purpose is what gives life a meaning.” -- Charles H. Perkhurst
  
  
• “Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.” -- Jim Rohn
  
  
• “Many people have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.” -- Helen Keller
  
  
• “Life is a field of unlimited possibilities.” -- Deepak Chopra
  
  
• “Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.” -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  
  
• “Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” -- Thomas Edison
  
  
• “We can't afford to waste tears on might-have-beens. We need to turn the tears into sweat that can take us to what can be.” -- Denis Waitley
  
  
• “Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action.” -- Brendan Francis
  
  

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