Top 100 Purpose Direction Quotes
#1. Our highest endeavour must be to develop individuals who are able out of their own initiative to impart purpose & direction to their lives.
Rudolf Steiner
#2. This ancient affirmation of Scripture and the Christian tradition provides a teleological hope and direction that gives meaning to life now and moves us toward the future with faith and confidence in God's redemptive purpose and power.
Cynthia Peters Anderson
#3. Direction is only necessary when your destination is certain but the path to get there isn't clear to you
Fela Durotoye
#4. Sometimes nothing is so solid to me as writing - I suppose that's what a vocation means - at times a torment, a bad conscience, but all in all, purpose and direction.
Robert Lowell
#5. What is a goal without a purpose?
J.R. Rim
#6. Separately there was only wind, water, sail, and hull, but at my hand the four had been given purpose and direction.
Lowell Thomas
#7. Life becomes pleasurable when you are moving in the direction of your calling
Sunday Adelaja
#9. Go relentlessly in the direction of your ultimate purpose of life and that which makes you happy.
Debasish Mridha
#10. At any given moment, life is completely senseless. But viewed over a period, it seems to reveal itself as an organism existing in time, having a purpose, trending in a certain direction.
Aldous Huxley
#11. Join us. Play the game. It will bring you an untold number of rewards and you will finally have some direction and purpose in your lives. Take control of yourselves and those around you. Bend them to your will and all worldly pleasures will be yours ...
Martin Hopkins
#12. Surely there were others like me, born without an inkling of direction. The wanderers, the amblers, the dabblers, united by our purposeless mantra-I have no idea what to do with my life.
Suzanne Selfors
#13. Life is simplified when there is one center; one reason, one motivation, one direction and purpose.
Jean Fleming
#14. Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.
John F. Kennedy
#15. There's never been a map. Only a compass whose dial always knows where it's pointing.
Fennel Hudson
#16. Virtuous people are simply those who have not been tempted sufficiently, because they live in a vegetative state, or because their purposes are so concentrated in one direction that they have not had the leisure to glance around them.
Isadora Duncan
#17. You are a great, mighty and powerful spiritual being with dignity, direction and purpose.
Dannion Brinkley
#19. I would have told them that he lived a life lacking in purpose or direction. Like those aimless rides I took him on. A life lived from the backseat, observed as it blurred by. An indifferent life.
Khaled Hosseini
#20. When you get just a complete sense of blackness or void ahead of you, that somehow the future looks an impossible place to be, and the direction you are going seems to have no purpose, there is this word despair which is a very awful thing to feel.
Stephen Fry
#21. Your feelings and emotions are your strongest indicator if your life is moving in a purposeful direction or not, so listen closely to how you feel
Rebecca Rosen
#22. People who do not worship are swept into a vast restlessness, epidemic in the world, with no steady direction and no sustaining purpose.
Edmund Clowney
#23. One is often so busy doing life that it is easy to avoid evaluating whether you are putting your energy in the direction you value most.
Deborah Day
#24. My research offers impressive evidence that we feel better when we attempt to make our world better ... to have a purpose beyond one's self lends to existence a meaning and direction - the most important characteristic of high well-being.
Gail Sheehy
#25. Leadership is the influence of a person(s) on another person(s) which guides their efforts in a specific direction, with more purpose, clarity, and unity than they would have held on their own.
Michael A. Wood Jr.
#26. Properly directed thoughts result in properly directed actions. The only way to appropriately guide our thoughts is to know their foundation, our values.
Chris Matakas
#27. In the end, everything happens for a reason. Paths are meant to be crossed for a higher purpose than what we realize at the moment. Life for everyone goes on. This is just a fork in the road that has taken me for a slight detour. Tomorrow I'll pick up a new map and set my sights on a new direction.
A.M. Willard
#28. You are moving in the opposite direction when your life is about survival only
Sunday Adelaja
#29. You know, you don't need to grow old to die. I was dying at the age of 20 as a result of no direction and no purpose.
Grant Cardone
#30. A primary purpose for setting goals is to get you moving in the right direction. When you set goals, you have to keep them always in mind.
Stedman Graham
#31. Nothing that happens to you was meant to be. The only thing about you that was meant to be is you. Blaze your own trail.
George Alexiou
#32. When we know our values, we can easily measure whether or not our actions are in accordance with them. Values are the measuring sticks with which we determine the worthiness of our actions. To be better associated with one's own values is to remove a lot of the needless activities of daily life.
Chris Matakas
#33. Without sense of purpose and clear direction of your life, you will only be building a fake brand of you
Bernard Kelvin Clive
#34. You have to gather your energy together ... conserving it and insulating it from dissipation in every direction other than that of your purpose.
Walter Russell
#35. You were born to journey in the direction of your purpose. Anything that halts your progress is contrary to your design.
Steve Maraboli
#36. I take action in the direction of my dreams, passions, talents, and interests. I know that I have a much-needed life purpose, which I embrace without delay. I focus only on today with respect to my goals, trusting that all of my tomorrows will work out well.
Doreen Virtue
#37. A man's life may stagnate as literally as water may stagnate, and just as motion and direction are the remedy for one, so purpose and activity are the remedy for the other.
John Burroughs
#38. A Vessel out at Sea is like a Woman, with out a Navigator it has no sense of Direction. A Navigator with out a Vessel has no Sense of Purpose.
Rey
#39. People often confuse "goal" and "purpose." A goal is something tangible; a purpose is a direction. A goal can be achieved; a purpose is fulfilled in each moment. We can set ad achieve many goals; a purpose remains constant for life.
Roger Delano Hinkins
#40. If you're going down the wrong path, speeding up isn't going to help.
Orrin Woodward
#41. We are children of chaos, and the deep structure of change is decay. At root, there is only corruption, and the unstemmable tide of chaos. Gone is purpose; all that is left is direction. This is the bleakness we have to accept as we peer deeply and dispassionately into the heart of the Universe.
Peter Atkins
#42. It's hard sometimes to remember why we do anything in the first place. It's nice to think there's a purpose, or even a real decision that turns everything in one direction, but that's not always true, is it? We just fall into our lives.
Dinaw Mengestu
#43. My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?
Charles M. Schulz
#44. ... one thing we know for sure: everybody has to be somewhere. Is it possible you are somewhere you didn't fully realize?
Van Harden
#45. Once in a while stop to look down at your shoelaces, but never lose sight of your direction when you raise your head
Will Leamon
#46. When you don't know where you are going in life (No Clear Destination), you don't need direction ... you need Divine Revelation
Fela Durotoye
#47. I question and soul-search constantly into myself to be as certain as I can that I am fulfilling the true meaning of my work, that I am maintaining my sense of purpose, that I am holding fast to my ideals, that I am guiding my people in the right direction.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#48. You need to understand what goal you were created for and you need to understand your destination
Sunday Adelaja
#49. We intend to lead a government of purpose and direction so that we can offer the people of this nation the opportunity to move forward to independence, democracy and equality.
Alex Salmond
#50. Indeed, there is nothing like suffering to remind us how much we need God. What good news that His purpose and plan for our lives moves in a different direction from ours!
Tullian Tchividjian
#51. Have courage to go your own way and fulfil the dreams that are unique and important to you.
Fennel Hudson
#52. what once cause catastrophe in my life has now become the catalyst for my direction.
Nikki Rowe
#53. Passion requires focused direction, and that direction must come from three other areas: your purpose, your talents, and your needs.
Steve Pavlina
#54. I would step into a place of being lined up with a sense of purpose and my inner compass, and everything was going in the same direction. Then I'd get lazy and get off the track. And then things would start to fall apart, and I'd back up and get it together again.
Kathy Mattea
#55. Whereas purpose provides the juice and the direction, principles define the parameters of action and the criteria for excellence of behavior.
David Allen
#56. Fear and anxiety many times indicates that we are moving in a positive direction, out of the safe confines of our comfort zone, and in the direction of our true purpose.
Charles F. Glassman
#57. If you walk and talk with God, you will never miss the direction to your divine future. Be bold and offer your heart to be led by God.
Israelmore Ayivor
#58. If we are going to inquire into that, (religion, i.e. a life in which there is no fragmentation whatsoever) we must not only be free of all belief, but also we must be very clear about the distorting factor of all effort, direction and purpose.
Krishnamurti
#59. Take a step that has a purpose of leading you to where you have planned to go. When the destination is right and the direction is wrong, it is impossible to get there. Make a step.
Israelmore Ayivor
#60. history has no overall direction or purpose
Damien Keown
#61. Study in direction of your field and find maximum amount of information about it , read all possible information concerning it
Sunday Adelaja
#62. When your footsteps and thoughts carry you down the same path your heart and soul are directing you, you will know without a doubt that you are headed in the right direction.
Molly Friedenfeld
#63. For years my only purpose was to do documentary photos for magazines, without any idea that they were part of a larger project. It was as if I were carried along by a stream - even though I believed that the current was taking me in the right direction.
Hiroshi Hamaya
#64. We value the clock for its speed and efficiency. The clock has its place, efficiency has its place, after effectiveness. The symbol of effectiveness is the compass a sense of direction, purpose, vision, perspective, and balance. But the empowerment process itself is not efficient.
Stephen Covey
#65. Being truly happy in life involves you feeling more in control of the direction your life is going.
Deborah Day
#67. Satnav will get us quickly and all-too-predictably from A to B, but the path of life is more interesting when we're allowed to explore the side streets.
Fennel Hudson
#68. The ultimate purpose of religious life is to make this evolution move in a direction far more important to the destiny of the ego than the moral health of the social fabric which forms his present environment.
Muhammad Iqbal
#69. The thing has already taken form in my mind before I start it. The first attempts are absolutely unbearable. I say this because I want you to know that if you see something worthwhile in what I am doing, it is not by accident but because of real direction and purpose.
Vincent Van Gogh
#70. As long as you SIT, you Stay In Trouble. Once you STAND, you Shift Toward A New Direction, take a STEP, and Start To Embrace Purpose, then WALK to Welcome Abundance, Love and Knowledge.
Niquenya D. Fulbright
#71. Their world is governed by children, little despots whose needs - school and camp and activities and tutors - dictate every decision, and will for the next ten, fifteen, eighteen years[...] Having children has provided their adulthood with an instant and nonnegotiable sense of purpose and direction.
Hanya Yanagihara
#72. The purpose of the governing body, or board of directors, is to direct and guide the organization in the right direction
Pearl Zhu
#73. Don't let the tide of life shift you away, move intentionally in the right direction
Sunday Adelaja
#74. Until you have a purpose and clear direction of your life (business) you would only be building a fake brand
Bernard Kelvin Clive
#75. Sharing a clear and concise vision spawns a sense of purpose and direction. It attracts success toward you and helps you build an expanding team.
Farshad Asl
#76. George W. Bush brought a lot of minorities into his administration, which was a positive thing, and they had some issues that they wanted to press, but 9/11 really gave them direction. It gave them a purpose.
Josh Brolin
#77. Leadership is a process that involves setting a PURPOSE AND DIRECTION which inspires people to combine and work towards willingly; paying attention to the MEANS, PACE AND QUALITY OF PROGRESS towards the aim; and upholding GROUP UNITY and INDIVIDUAL EFFECTIVENESS throughout.
James Scouller
#78. The best life is one that is lived with direction and purpose.
Bidemi Mark-Mordi
#79. Lasting happiness comes from steadily working to accomplish your goals and advancing in the direction of your life's purpose.
Robin Sharma
#80. A written retirement plan provides an evolving foundation of social purpose and direction for personal growth.
Lee Johnson
#81. My parents and grandparents did not tolerate idle thoughts or behavior. If the action did not have a purpose or lead you in a positive direction, their feeling was "why bother?" This is how I was built. This is why I refuse to fail.
Carlos Wallace
#82. The real direction of your vision is as important as your vision. Notwithstanding how large the goal post might be, the power behind your shots least matter as its direction, for it is more of the direction that will determine the goals you shall score and the final score in the end
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#83. The law of the [Cub Scout] pack guides the boys to move in the direction of being helpful, friendly, courteous, trustworthy and promote qualities which parents and the community are looking for. The whole purpose of scouting is to help the children grow up making good decisions in life.
John C. Maxwell
#84. When vision fails Direction is lost. When direction is lost Purpose may be forgotten. When purpose is forgotten Emotion rules alone. When emotion rules alone, Destruction ... destruction. F
Octavia E. Butler
#85. We must know where we want to go in order to get there. Our modern lives are growing increasingly chaotic, and it is only a clear, definitive purpose that will keep us on track.
Chris Matakas
#86. Most people trusted in the future, assuming that their preferred version of it would unfold. Blindly planning for it, envisioning things that weren't the case. This was the working of the will. This was what gave the world purpose and direction. Not what was there but what was not.
Jhumpa Lahiri
#87. Everyone has their own calling, but not everyone is looking for the phone, or either they missed the call, or just not answered it.
Anthony Liccione
#88. Don't go in the opposite direction, locate your calling
Sunday Adelaja
#89. Goals are a means to an end, not the ultimate purpose of our lives. They are simply a tool to concentrate our focus and move us in a direction. The only reason we really pursue goals is to cause ourselves to expand and grow.
Tony Robbins
#90. It is difficult to spread the contagion of excitement without having a sense of purpose and direction.
Daniel Goleman
#91. Now the stream of our common consciousness seems to be obliterating its own banks, losing its central direction and purpose, flooding the lowlands, disconnecting and isolating the highlands and to no particular purpose other than the wasteful fulfillment of its own internal momentum
Robert M. Pirsig
#92. If you have a sense of purpose and a sense of direction, I believe people will follow you. Democracy isn't just about deducing what the people want. Democracy is leading the people as well.
Margaret Thatcher
#93. You're living your days at the moment how a sheep grazes, meandering, not engaged with anything much.
Nikki Gemmell
#94. We actually believe in hope. But hope requires purpose. And purpose requires direction.
Charles Kennedy
#95. People from all walks of life share an innate drive for meaning, direction, and purpose. This drive to understand our life purpose seems as important to our psychological growth as eating is to our biological survival.
Dan Millman
#96. He walks through the river of refugees and soldiers, giving purpose and direction to people who would otherwise be lost.
Susan Ee
#97. Without sense of direction, efforts land nowhere.
Saru Singhal
#98. Bush is going in the wrong way. And I dare say, that is what the strategy of his administration is, is just to wipe out government's purpose for any social and economic justice at all. And I'm going to take the country in an opposite direction than he's taking it.
Dennis Kucinich
#99. To find one's purpose is to discover one's worth, discern one's direction, wholly dedicate oneself to the journey, and forge an unbending determination that I will not leave the world the way I found it. This week's blog outlines the finding of our purpose.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#100. The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
