Top 100 Quotes About Greater Purpose
#1. My father was a man who didn't consider himself learned. He was a man who liked to be a farmer. He enjoyed his dairy farm and felt the calling. So there was a dedication. I was dedicated as a child to the service of God, and so there was this continual centering of a greater purpose than your own.
Phil Jackson
#2. Your greater purpose is already written in the fabric of your being; your purpose awaits your arrival.
Bryant McGill
#3. 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
#5. Sensei, why can't I go to school?" ...
"I am truly sorry, my son. I know this is hard but you have another purpose. A greater purpose. Something far more important than playground games and making friends. I wish it wasn't so, but it is.
Phillip W. Simpson
#6. We can't control our destiny. We can't go back into our past history and make changes. But we can begin this moment by setting a goal and pursuing it for a better life with a greater purpose.
Ellen J. Barrier
#7. Education provides you a profession. But not vocation. You do it only because you need to work to earn money to buy your food, buy your clothes, pay the bills. Our life has a greater meaning, and a greater purpose.
Satish Kumar
#8. Sacrifice only means something when you're willing to give up everything for a greater purpose.
Dannika Dark
#9. There is a love like no other. A love that requires no conditions. A love that can't be explained or learned. It's a love that gives you a greater purpose. It's a love that can set the rest of your world aside.
Jennifer Lopez
#10. There's no greater purpose than service to others.
Nick Nolte
#11. In regards to climbing the ladder of success, there is a better future, with a greater purpose. One can find it, only if he or she searches for it.
Ellen J. Barrier
#12. Sometimes you can be touched by God, but not healed. Often when this happens, he is using your pain for a greater purpose.
Shannon L. Alder
#13. After all, a man's life, when all is said and done, should serve some greater purpose than that of a hero in a cautionary tale.
Judd Trichter
#14. God permits sin to come into human life, but only on behalf of a greater good - namely, freedom - and God overrules sin wherever it appears to threaten God's greater purpose
Thomas C. Oden
#15. There is a better future, with a greater purpose. We can find it, only when we search for it.
Ellen J. Barrier
#16. I think it's important to have a greater purpose behind modeling. Don't model just because you're pretty and you want to make money. Every girl wants that. You have to stand out from everyone else and on those really hard days, that is really the only thing that will keep you going.
Whitney Thompson
#17. You need not strive to become your greater purpose.
Bryant McGill
#18. I think it's important for each of us to examine the reasons why we have survived our individual challenges, obstacles, and trials. It's not always easy to come to terms with the fact that God always has a greater purpose for us than we can have for ourselves.
Stu Jones
#19. [Your] search for meaning in the world ... can only really be fulfilled by the greater purpose that has sent [you] here in the first place.
The New Message From God
#20. Sometimes singed wings will fly with greater purpose.
Tom Althouse
#21. Do not wait another day to become fully engaged in your life, to learn to love and to forgive, and to live with greater purpose & meaning.
Debbie Ford
#22. There is a greater purpose to living which is found in the spirit, which is the Being, and that purpose is worth living for.
Belsebuub
#23. I pray to be used in service to a greater purpose higher than my own
Oprah Winfrey
#24. That's just it, don't you see? I don't want to be taken care of! I don't want be hidden away, a burden! I want to make my own way! To have a greater purpose!'
Melanie Benjamin
#25. We may just need society to work for greater purpose either it is to serve people or to give them the feeling of pleasure for living.
Santosh Kalwar
#26. No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.
Denis Waitley
#27. There are so many open roads and we ended up walking this one together. If you think that's an accident, then you hurt me. There's no greater purpose for this life than to find the partner who understands your soul.
J.A. Huss
#28. Fate' and 'coincidence' are the mythological derivatives authored by those who refuse to see a 'greater purpose', because such a conclusion would naturally suggest a 'Greater Being'.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#30. The strongest democracies flourish from frequent and lively debate, but they endure when people of every background and belief find a way to set aside smaller differences in service of a greater purpose.
Barack Obama
#31. We move forward by having confidence within ourselves, with hope for a greater purpose.
Ellen J. Barrier
#32. Sometimes creativity seems wasteful, illogical . . . unless it's done for a greater purpose.
Veronica Roth
#33. Every person we assassinate dies to serve a greater purpose."
"I'm sure they would be happy if they knew it," Ileni said sarcastically, but her voice sounded weak even to her. "If you would explain it to them, perhaps they would volunteer for your knives.
Leah Cypess
#34. We have to release our plans to realize God's greater purpose
Mandy Hale
#35. Life was fleeting, I had learned, and death guaranteed. There had to be some greater purpose to it than the routine existance of daily life.
Moazzam Begg
#36. If you have suffered more than your fair share of difficulties in life, perhaps you are being prepared to serve some greater purpose that will require you to be equipped with the wisdom you have acquired through your trials.
Robin S. Sharma
#37. Ambition is the incentive that makes purpose GREAT and ACHIEVEMENT greater!
Orison Swett Marden
#38. Thou art but a feeble flower in the garden of the universe, yet thou hath a purpose much greater than thyself.
Raneem Kayyali
#39. We don't need bigger cars or fancier clothes. We need self-respect, identity, community, love, variety, beauty, challenge and a purpose in living that is greater than material accumulation.
Donella Meadows
#40. I know of no realm of life that can provide more companionship in a lonely world or greater feelings of security and purpose in chaotic times than the close ties of a family.
Charles R. Swindoll
#41. If you want to feel connected to your own purpose, know this for certain: Your purpose will only be found in service to others, and in being connected to the something far greater than your mind/body/ego.
Wayne Dyer
#42. When the child has reached manhood he is thoroughly saturated with the belief that he is chosen by the Lord himself to defend his country against the attack or invasion of any foreigner. It is for that purpose that we are clamoring for a greater army and navy, more battleships and ammunition ...
Emma Goldman
#43. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world.
Woodrow Wilson
#44. What is the purpose of reason, Richard Parker? Is it no more than to shine at practicalities - the getting of food, clothing and shelter? Why can't reason give greater answers? Why can we throw a question further than we can pull in an answer? Why such a vast net of there's so little fish to catch?
Yann Martel
#45. Can't you try>? However useless the effort may seem to you to be, have you anything better to do with your life? Have you some worthier goal? Have you a purpose that will justify you in your own eyes to some greater extent?
Isaac Asimov
#46. God reminded me again that day that I have one purpose, in Uganda and in life, and that is to love. I could ask for no greater assignment.
Katie J. Davis
#48. I have this determination and drive to live a better life, change the world, and accomplish great things. Distractions are always there, but my purpose is so much greater that I'm always able to get back on focus.
Jeet Banerjee
#49. There is a greater day coming, a greater reward coming, a greater life coming, and the purpose of life while we are alive is to walk in a manner worthy of the gospel, which holds the promise of life everlasting.
Matt Chandler
#50. The single most important principle I ever discovered is this: the goal or purpose of the Christian is precisely the pursuit of happiness - in God. The reason for this is that there is no greater way to glorify God than to find in Him the happiness that my soul so desperately craves.
Sam Storms
#51. Always have there been great numbers of individuals who were very much eager to fight for good causes. Always there were these, but then there were even greater numbers of trendies who would then become wholly and completely misguided in the efforts.
Criss Jami
#52. Hard work is painful when life is devoid of purpose. But when you live for something greater than yourself and the gratification of your own ego, then hard work becomes a labor of love.
Steve Pavlina
#53. The purpose of American culture is to create a norm, Morris. That means extraordinary people must be leveled, and it happens to Jimmy. He ends up working in advertising, for God's sake, and what greater agent of the norm is there in this fucked - up country?
Stephen King
#54. God's purpose is greater than our problems, our pain and even our sin.
Rick Warren
#55. Every moment you spend on this planet, remember that you are here for a unique purpose & cause, far greater than to just eat, sleep & talk.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#56. A relationship is not meant to be the joining at the hip of two emotional invalids. The purpose of a relationship is not for two incomplete people to become one, but rather for two complete people to join together for the greater glory of God.
Marianne Williamson
#57. If indeed [nature] has no greater aim than to provide a home for her greatest experiment, Man, it would be just like her methods to scatter a million stars wherof one might haply achieve her purpose.
Annie Dillard
#58. Passion is born when your heart gets carried away with a purpose greater than yourself.
Roy Spence
#59. What is the real purpose behind the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus? They seem like greater steps toward faith and imagination, each with a payoff. Like cognitive training exercises.
Chuck Palahniuk
#60. We have to have a purpose greater than the endless struggle to satisfy personal desires.
Eknath Easwaran
#61. So far as hypotheses are concerned, let no one expect anything certain from astronomy, which cannot furnish it, lest he accept as the truth ideas conceived for another purpose, and depart from this study a greater fool than when he entered it.
Nicolaus Copernicus
#62. Successfully completing a lesser purpose doesn't feel good very good for very long, because it is simply preparation for advancing toward a greater embodiment of your deeper purpose.
David Deida
#63. The American culture promotes personal responsibility, the dignity of work, the value of education, the merit of service, devotion to a purpose greater than self, and at the foundation, the pre-eminence of family.
Mitt Romney
#64. There can be no greater good than the quest for peace, and no finer purpose than the preservation of freedom.
Ronald Reagan
#65. If work is to make a life the purpose of the organization might need to shift to include a greater degree of meaning.
Dan Pontefract
#66. Or maybe what he fears is just the opposite: that nobody is looking; that his death, like his life, is without purpose; that there is neither greater good nor evil
only people living and dying because their bodies function and then do not; that the universe is a rip.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#67. If life has any meaning or purpose, you won't find it in happiness, but in something more rational, in something greater.
Anton Chekhov
#68. The purpose of Buddhism is not to convert people. It is to give them tools so they can create greater happiness. So they can be happier Catholics, happier atheists, happier Buddhists.
David Michie
#69. The purpose of the book is to break the silence and stigma surrounding sexual abuse and to educate the public on how they can be greater advocates for victims. As a people, a nation and a society, we all have a part to play in curbing this issue.
Michelle Alexander
#70. My goal was bigger than revenge. My purpose greater than personal retribution.
Sarah J. Maas
#71. Entrepreneurs must be practical experts. They needn't set out to be subject matter experts in what they do; they must set out to solve a problem or pursue some cause or purpose greater than themselves.
Simon Sinek
#72. Americans need to call on Boomers, in their next act onstage, to behave like grown-ups. And there is no better way for them to do this than to guide young people to lives of greater meaning, effectiveness, and purpose.
Eric Liu
#73. When God requires us to surrender one dream, it's because He wants to hand us a bigger and better one.
Mandy Hale
#74. Anything that's motivated from fear will ultimately take you down the wrong road and lead you in a cul de sac, anything motivated from purpose, from joy, and from love will take you on an evolutionary path to greater and greater happiness.
Jack Canfield
#75. We must focus on prayer as the main thrust to accomplish God's will and purpose on earth. The forces against us have never been greater, and this is the only way we can release God's power to become victorious
John C. Maxwell
#76. The power of prayer is like turning on a light as it illuminates God's purpose for our lives. There is no greater connection to knowing His will other than the word.
Thomas Kinkade
#77. The nearer a person approaches the Lord, a greater power will be manifested by the adversary to prevent the accomplishment of His purposes.
Joseph Smith Jr.
#78. Science has given to this generation the means of unlimited disaster or of unlimited progress. There will remain the greater task of directing knowledge lastingly towards the purpose of peace and human good.
Winston Churchill
#79. Genuine contentment is found in performing tasks that take us out of ourselves, for a purpose greater than ourselves. Only when the personality is subordinated to a higher goal do we attain the serenity we are looking for.
Sydney J. Harris
#80. Use me, God. Show me how to take who I am, who I want to be, and what I can do, and use it for a purpose greater than myself.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#81. I've seen too much sacrifice to believe that God is behind all of it, and I've seen sacrifice that has no indicia of the hand of God at all. Loss is not always part of some greater plan explainable by reference to the actions of a divine being with a divine purpose.
Neil Abramson
#82. The belief that one's suffering has a greater cosmic purpose, and is thus more exciting and more noble, well, it made a lot of sense to me.
Heidi Julavits
#83. There is a greater will, a greater need and purpose hidden within each life, and there is an inner law that knows best how each must live and that is worth stealing for; it's worth dying for, and worth living for as well.
Michael Meade
#84. Man becomes greater in proportion to knowing himself and his faculties. Let him become conscious of what he is and he will soon also learn what he should be.
Felix Schelling
#85. By learning to identify your energy patterns, you will be able to gain a much greater vision of the meaning and purpose of your many experiences and relationships.
Caroline Myss
#86. The wealth of time is greater than the wealth of money
Sunday Adelaja
#87. God can turn your biggest flaws into your biggest cause.
Mandy Hale
#88. The purpose of God is far greater than your own personal fulfillment or your peace of mind, or even your happiness, your family, your career or even your dreams and ambitions.
Moroaswi Tumiso Victor
#89. The mission will describe how the organization will work to address the issue of the cause. The cause is the greater issue that the organization advocates for. It is in the combination of cause and mission that the organization will find purpose. Where
Brian Sooy
#90. Your life has turned out the way it has for a reason. And now, you need to unearth that purpose and use it for your own good and the greater good.
Joanne Guidoccio
#91. The primary purpose of going to college isn't to get a great job. The primary purpose of college is to build a strong mind, which leads to greater self-awareness, capability, fulfillment, and service opportunities, which, incidentally, should lead to a better job.
Sean Covey
#92. A strong will deals with the hard facts of life as a sculptor with his marbles, making them facile and yielding to his purposes, and conquering their stubbornness by a greater stubbornness in himself.
Christian Nestell Bovee
#93. The results you produce open doors for greater opportunities
Sunday Adelaja
#95. Live for a purpose greater than yourself.
Mitt Romney
#96. The very beating of your heart has meaning and purpose. Your actions have value far greater than silver or gold.
Andy Andrews
#97. More people can be great leaders than think they can, but they need a purpose greater than themselves.
William J. Clinton
#98. The true purpose of the strong is to promote greater strength in the weak, and not to keep the weak in that state where they are at the mercy of the strong.
Christian D. Larson
#99. My purpose is far greater than my pain.
Foxy Brown
#100. God is a God of purpose. He doesn't wake-up and start dabbling into things; He doesn't practice trial and error. His ways are sure, they may be low but they are always sure.
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
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