Top 100 Have A Purpose Quotes
#1. Attention Morte. I have a question. Do you have a destiny? A
purpose?"
"Is Annah still wearing clothes?"
"Affirmatory."
"Then the answer is yes.
Chris Avellone
#2. Long term thinking and planing enhances short term decision making. Make sure you have a plan of your life in your hand, and that includes the financial plan and your mission.
Manoj Arora
#3. Believing, too, that is not enough. You cannot just believe. Your belief must have a purpose.
Ian Baucom
#4. Are ideals confined to this deformed experiment upon a noble purpose, tainted, as it is, with bargains and tied to a peace treaty which might have been disposed of long ago to the great benefit of the world if it had not been compelled to carry this rider on its back?
Henry Cabot Lodge
#5. Who is more responsible than a gull who finds and
follows a meaning, a higher purpose for life? For a thousand
years we have scrabbled after fish heads, but now we have a
reason to live - to learn, to discover, to be free!
Richard Bach
#6. We have these rules, the 'hero rules.' Like, a hero doesn't slouch. A hero walks proudly with his head up. A hero walks with a purpose. A hero's always a gentleman.
John Singleton
#7. If you want to know your purpose, pursue the heart of God and you'll have a head-on collision with your calling.
Renee Swope
#8. So let your deepest desires direct your aim. Set your sights far above the 'reasonable' target. The power of purpose is profound only if you have a desire that stirs the heart.
Price Pritchett
#9. My clothes have a story. They have an identity. They have a character and a purpose. That's why they become classics. Because they keep on telling a story. They are still telling it.
Vivienne Westwood
#10. We have an idea that God is leading us to a particular end, a desired goal; He is not ... What we call the process God calls the end. His purpose is that I depend on Him and His power NOW. It is the process, not the end that is glorifying to God.
Oswald Chambers
#12. I don't live in L.A. on purpose because I don't wanna be immersed in that. I have to have a real life, with real people, in order to inform what I'm doing; otherwise, it just becomes the snake eating its own tail. Vampirism.
Alan Arkin
#13. People have said to me for a long time, "Man you're funny." I say, "Well, I'm quick," but being funny on purpose, take after take - that's why I said for me it was new territory, and so by improvising something might come out that might be good. And it's film, so they can cut it if it isn't.
Denzel Washington
#14. I feel more beautiful than I've ever felt because I've given birth. I have never felt so connected, never felt like I had such a purpose on this earth. The best thing about having a daughter is having a true legacy. The word love means something completely different now.
Beyonce Knowles
#15. That divided and rebel mind, that distrust of a sentiment because our arithmetic has computed the strength and means opposed to our purpose, these [158] have not. Their mind being whole, their eye is as yet unconquered, and when we look in their faces we are disconcerted.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#16. When you stand at the bottom of the mountain and look up at the mountaintop, the path looks hard and stony, and the top is obscured by clouds. But when you reach the top and you look down, you realize that there are a thousand paths that could have brought you to that place.
Roz Savage
#17. We as people have a purpose here to contribute to the Earth, to contribute to people's goodness and good life.
Common
#18. I'd guess that you have some purpose to fulfill and that is why you were saved. But don't get a swelled head over it. A cabbage has a purpose when someone needs to make soup.
Nancy Farmer
#19. An adventurer has a purpose. Such as finding new lands and valuable treasures. A misadventurer, besides doing it for the hell of it and for a good time, doesn't really have a good purpose.
S.A. Tawks
#20. I have been used for a purpose, and there will be a
certain tragic occurrence happening if you don't take my testimony and
somehow vindicate me so my people don't suffer because of what I have
done.
Jack Ruby
#21. The question is, do you have deliberate plans for your life? Do you have intentions with you time? God planned that there should be a time for everything and for every season, meaning you can plan for everything and every season in your life! You may ask, 'Is that possible?" I say, "It's up to you!
Archibald Marwizi
#22. Our purpose is to produce students who have that rare and precious combination of a superb secular education, complemented by faith in the Lord, a knowledge of the doctrines He has revealed, and a testimony that they are true.
Boyd K. Packer
#23. I have always thought, the secret purpose of the book tour is to make the writer hate the book he's written. And, as a result, drive him to write another book.
Salman Rushdie
#24. My life has a mysterious purpose that I don't understand, and day by day, conflict by conflict, I learn by going where I have to go.
Dean Koontz
#25. I have defined love as the will to extend oneself for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth. Genuine love is volitional rather than emotional. The person who truly loves does so because of a decision to love.
M. Scott Peck
#26. She has man's brain
a brain that a man should have were he much gifted
and woman's heart. The good God fashioned her for a purpose, believe me when He made that so good combination.
Bram Stoker
#27. As a result, your subconscious mind will do its best to keep you from a successful marriage, because you have a disagreement between your consciousness and sub consciousness
Sunday Adelaja
#28. The man without a purpose is a man who drifts at the mercy of random feelings or unidentified urges and is capable of any evil, because he is totally out of control of his own life. In order to be in control of your life, you have to have a purpose-a productive purpose.
Ayn Rand
#29. Travis walked me to class, his grip tensing a few times when my feet slipped on the ice. "You should be more careful," he teased.
"I'm doing it on purpose. You're such a sucker."
"If you want my arms around you, all you have to do is ask," he said, pulling me into his chest.
Jamie McGuire
#30. There's never going to be a time where the Republican Party rallies around and says you have to get out or anyone has to get out for purposes of rallying around Donald Trump.
Marco Rubio
#31. I'm really, really enjoying myself, I seem to have a lot of purpose in my life. I'm enjoying what I'm doing, you know, and people are liking it. So, it's great, you know.
Robbie Williams
#32. I've been born into a broken world and my purpose is to make sure when I leave it, know I have left my mark of kindness on it somewhere.
Nikki Rowe
#33. The chief want, in every state that I have been into, was a high and earnest purpose in its inhabitants.
Henry David Thoreau
#34. When you name your child after a grotesque gigantic creature known for slaughtering hundreds of innocents for the sole purpose of entertainment (okay so they were illegal immigrants who entered his realm) you must have a slight idea how that would turn out.
Cyma Rizwaan Khan
#35. Mobile communications have two functions: as a safety net, and as a marketing tool. I think it'd be foolish to not carry one for safety sake. Using one for marketing is an optional activity, and I've generally stayed away from extensively using one for this purpose because it's a distraction.
Andrew Skurka
#36. The need to leave a legacy is our spiritual need to have a sense of meaning, purpose, personal congruence, and contribution.
Stephen Covey
#37. We need stressful days in order to be happy. We need days when we get zero sleep and are working tirelessly on a deadline. Because if we didn't, the lazy days wouldn't feel good ... We need to always be working towards something in order to feel useful and have a sense of purpose.
Ryan O'Connell
#38. One of the great responsibilities we have as a society is to educate ourselves, along with the next generation, about which substances are worth ingesting, and for what purpose, and which are not.
Sam Harris
#39. We must trust that what we're doing has a purpose. We must realize that we're not here to make kids conform or perform, but that we're here to help them to develop their own unique skills and talents, not the ones we want them to have or the ones we think they should have.
Tom Walsh
#40. The purpose of driving traffic to your online business is to get customers. Once a prospect lands on your site, you still have to convert that prospect into a buyer.
Marc Ostrofsky
#41. God uses one whom others would have passed over without a second glance. The history of obedience to the Great Commission is full of such examples. Behind this reality is a truth that God will use any who will submit to and obey His purpose for mission in their generation.
Ross Paterson
#42. For success, have a laser-like, purpose-oriented focus, and persistently go toward it.
Debasish Mridha
#43. If [we] have a good, miserable day once in a while, or several in a row, stand steady and face them. Things will straighten out. There is great purpose in our struggle in life.
Boyd K. Packer
#44. Illness can be undignified. Suffering does not have a purpose, and relationships are complicated. In the most painful way a person can, Hazel comes to realize, that love does not, cannot, conquer death. What it can do, however, is transcend it.
Chelsey Philpot
#45. Your emotions make you human. Even the unpleasant ones have a purpose. Don't lock them away. If you ignore them, they just get louder and angrier.
Sabaa Tahir
#46. Release and detach from every person, every circumstance, every condition, and every situation that no longer serves a divine purpose in your life. All things have a season, and all seasons must come to an end. Choose a new season, filled with purposeful thoughts and activities.
Iyanla Vanzant
#47. Your purpose is to act on the resources God gives you. If God gives you a bucket of fish, you have to distribute those fish. If you don't, they're going to rot, attract a bunch of flies, and start stinking up your soul.
Russell Simmons
#48. I'm not sure I buy into the idea that my life is predetermined and I just have to wait for it to unfold." "I think it's more like you have a purpose to fulfill but you're free to embrace it or not.
T.H. Hernandez
#49. Individuals who structure their careers around autonomy, mastery, and purpose will have a powerful body of work.
Pamela Slim
#51. Until you have a purpose and clear direction of your life (business) you would only be building a fake brand
Bernard Kelvin Clive
#52. When you have a purpose of life it becomes the light to show you the path toward your destination.
Debasish Mridha
#53. When we are willing to let God shape our identity, He will take whatever we have to offer and multiply it in ways and for a purpose that we cannot even begin to imagine.
Tim Tebow
#54. I think Destiny's purpose is merely to shock us at moments into a state of awareness; those moments are milestones in between which we have to find our own way.
Attia Hosain
#55. We must all have a ministry we can function in, no matter how small
Sunday Adelaja
#56. Upon the farm of the uncle with whom I lived, we did know of the mortgage as some dreadful damper on youthful hopes of things that could not be bought. I do have a vivid recollection that the major purpose of a farm was to produce a living right on the spot for the family.
Herbert Hoover
#57. I think that the best companies are companies that have a real purpose.
Marjorie Scardino
#58. You have a calling, but this does not mean that you must start your ministry immediately
Sunday Adelaja
#59. It is a fact that you have a calling, but you must also know when the time comes for its fulfillment
Sunday Adelaja
#60. But oxygen's easier to find on Mars than you might think. The atmosphere is 95 percent CO2. And I happen to have a machine whose sole purpose is liberating oxygen from CO2. Yay, oxygenator!
Andy Weir
#61. To remain healthy a man must have some goal, some purpose in life that he can respect and be proud to work for.
Hans Selye
#62. Have a good day on purpose, then elevate your efforts towards other and enjoy a great day in purpose.
Toni Jenkins
#63. The instant the Government was organized, at the very first Congress, the Northern States evinced a general desire and purpose to use it for their own benefit, and to pervert its powers for sectional advantage, and they have steadily pursued that policy to this day.
Robert Toombs
#64. Real serious waiting is done in waiting rooms, and what they all have in common is their purpose, or purposelessness, if you will; they are places for doing nothing and they have no life of their own ... their one constant is what might be called a decorative rigor mortis ...
Ada Louise Huxtable
#65. The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#66. What I have learnt is that it is important to pursue your passion more than your legacy; if you have a passion with a purpose, then everything else fits in.
Nita Ambani
#67. You have been placed in the position you are in because you are a strategic part of a divine purpose that is much larger than yourself.
Daniel Kolenda
#68. It is impossible to read through the reports in the Communist Press without realizing that they are consciously aimed at a public ignorant of the facts and have no other purpose than to work up prejudice.
George Orwell
#69. There is in the American Government ... a want of unity ... The Sailors, the helmsman, the engineer, do not seem to have one purpose or obey one will so that instead of making steady way the vessel may pursue a devious or zigzag course, and sometimes merely turn round and round in the water.
James Bryce
#70. In performance, we have a greater purpose. The greater purpose is that we're communing together, and we want this moment to be really special for all of us. Because otherwise, why bother to have come at all? It's not about proving anything. It's about sharing something.
Yo-Yo Ma
#71. Your definition of a good life does not have to look like everyone else thinks it should. Whatever feels right for you, whatever aligns your inside with your outside, that's what you should spend your time doing.
G.G. Renee Hill
#72. Dignity is to have a dream, a strong one, which gives you a vision, a world where you have a place, where whatever it is you have to contribute makes a difference.
Fatema Mernissi
#73. I have realised more and more that great companies, founded for a long-term purpose, such as Google or Facebook or SpaceX, may do more good in the world than any other vehicle that we have.
Luke Nosek
#74. If you feel stuck in your present life, if you feel no enthusiasm for anything, if you think you have no purpose or that you lost that purpose somewhere along the way, I guarantee you are living in a dungeon made of stories. And that none of those limiting stories are true.
Martha Beck
#75. Sometimes, to have fun, you've got to be willing to take a chance - and even be frightened!
Mani S. Sivasubramanian
#76. We need to have a purpose in this life. I'm pleading with you, I'm begging with you to do the right thing. And do it not for the sake of how it will impact your own lives, but only for the sake of doing the right thing.
James McGreevey
#77. I have a small tattered clipping that I sometimes carry with meand pull out for purposes of privateamusement. It's a weather forecast from theWestern Daily Mail and it says, in toto: 'Outlook: Dry and warm, but cooler with some rain.
Bill Bryson
#78. The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make him ruin his work.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#79. Your faith in Jesus Christ gives life enduring meaning. Remember you are on a journey to exaltation. Sometimes you have experiences that yield more happiness than others, but it all has purpose with the Lord.
Richard G. Scott
#80. It can make us stronger, more compassionate, more understanding - more like Jesus - if we allow it to. And the more clutter we get rid of in our life here - the more we will be able to enjoy heaven - when we get there. So, pain can have a purpose.
Janette Oke
#81. The brands that will thrive in the coming years are the ones that have a purpose beyond profit.
Richard Branson
#82. But when you have a gift, it isn't yours to keep to yourself. It's the reason you're here. It's your purpose.
Nancy Horan
#83. Every now and then, something so profound comes out of your mouth that I am convinced you have to be consistently stupid on purpose.
A.D. Blackburn
#84. We all have a unique art, our personal passion that serves as a vessel through which our souls can speak. True happiness is found by filling it, and purpose is fulfilled by pouring it out.
Cristen Rodgers
#85. If you have a definite purpose, if you have a driving desire to achieve it and if you go with passion, then don't wait for success because you are already a success.
Debasish Mridha
#86. If one wanted to crush and destroy a man entirely, to mete out to him the most terrible punishment ... all one would have to do would be to make him do work that was completely and utterly devoid of usefulness and meaning.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#87. The crux of the matter is whether total war in its present form is justifiable, even when it serves a just purpose. Does it not have material and spiritual evil as its consequences which far exceed whatever good might result? When will our moralists give us an answer to this question?
John Hersey
#88. The Holy Spirit's instruments have no consciousness of His purpose; if they imagine they have, it is a pretty sure token that they are NOT His instruments. Nathaniel Hawthorne
Eugene H. Peterson
#89. The days, the weeks, the years out here shall come back again, and our dead comrades shall then stand up again and march with us, our heads shall be clear, we shall have a purpose, and so we shall march, our dead comrades beside us, the years at the Front behind us: - against whom, against whom?
Erich Maria Remarque
#90. The Dodo never had a chance. He seems to have been invented for the sole purpose of becoming extinct and that was all he was good for.
Will Cuppy
#91. I don't resist progress, but I have a growing feeling that mankind uses it mostly for disgraceful purposes.
Stanislaw Lem
#92. If you want your life to have impact, focus it! Stop dabbling. Stop trying to do it all. Do less. Prune away even good activities and do only that which matters most. Never confuse activity with productivity. You can be busy without a purpose, but what's the point?
Rick Warren
#93. I've had to create companies that I believe in 100%. These are companies I feel will make a genuine difference. Then I have to be willing to find the time myself to talk about them, promote them and market them. I don't want to spend my life doing something that I'm not proud of.
Richard Branson
#94. The anti-evolution forces have been searching for a new strategy that would accomplish the same end. That purpose is, if not to get evolution out of the schools altogether, then at least undermine it as much as possible in the minds of students.
Kenneth R. Miller
#95. As a club, we have an educational purpose: to give back to those people who love Arsenal so that they learn moral values from our game and how we behave.
Arsene Wenger
#96. Forgetting it is important. We do it on purpose. It means we get a bit of a rest. Are you listening? We have to forget. Or we'd never sleep ever again.
Ali Smith
#97. My main purpose in life is to make enough money to create ever more inventions ... . The dove is my emblem ... . I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it ... . I am proud of the fact that I have never invented weapons to kill ... .
Thomas A. Edison
#98. If I am just as stupid when I am twenty as I was when I was two, if I am just as stupid when I am a hundred as I was when I was fifty, then I am not doing my job. I am occupying space and time to no purpose, and I might just as well have been a lump of rock.
Robert Silverberg
#99. When God chooses you to deliver a message, to have a purpose, no one and nothing can reverse the course of His plan.
Carlos Wallace
#100. To get to a destination, you have to know the address. To find your purpose in life, you must set a goal, draw a map, and start the journey.
Debasish Mridha
