Thursday, 25 April 2013

Purpose - Quotes

Ah, only he who knows where he sails, knows what wind is good, and a fair wind for him. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose. - Bette Davis

I truly believe that everything that we do and everyone that we meet is put in our path for a purpose. There are no accidents; we’re all teachers – if we’re willing to pay attention to the lessons we learn, trust our positive instincts and not be afraid to take risks or wait for some miracle to come knocking at our door. - Marla Gibb

It may be that there was no reason or purpose, for mankind must always be finding reasons where there are none, and comfort in a purpose that hardly exists. - Jeanette Winterson

It's only ... when we're stripped of purpose that we know who we are. - Samuel R. Delany

Nothing contributes so much to tranquillize the mind as a steady purpose – a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye. - Mary Shelley

Our purpose is to consciously, deliberately evolve towards a wiser, more liberated and luminous state of being. - Tom Robbins

Purpose ... is held to be most closely connected with virtue, and to be a better token of our character than are even our acts. - Aristotle

They who have no central purpose in their life fall an easy prey to petty worries, fears, troubles, and self-pitying, all of which are indications of weakness, which lead, just as surely as deliberately planned sins (though by a different route), to failure, unhappiness, and loss, for weakness cannot persist in a power evolving universe. - James Allen

Until thought is linked with purpose there is no intelligent accomplishment. - James Allen

What men want is not talent, it is purpose; in other words, not the power to achieve but the will to labour. - Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Whenever I mentor people and help them discover their purpose, I always encourage them to start the process by discovering their strengths, not exploring their shortcomings. Why? Because people's purpose in life is always connected to their giftedness. It always works that way. You are not called to do something that you have no talent for. You will discover your purpose by finding and remaining in your strength zone. - John C. Maxwell

Where can you find purpose? Like success and happiness, our purpose exists in the present, and we constantly strive toward the future to maintain it. What it is for which we strive is up to each of us. The important thing is that we strive toward something. - Philip Zimbardo

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