Quotes About Having No Purpose

#1. Spirits were seen to be very much part of the everyday world, and you were accosted by spirits all the time. It's only really quite recently that we've relegated the fantastic as being just imagination and not real and having no purpose.

Brian Froud

#2. Believing, too, that is not enough. You cannot just believe. Your belief must have a purpose.

Ian Baucom

#3. Religious leaders will always avail themselves of public ignorance for their own purpose.

Thomas Jefferson

#4. The spark lies within us, somewhere deep within! Once you find it, that will illuminate the whole path you travel, all lives upon your way and the very purpose of your life. O beloved, know this world is illuminated by people so!

Preeth Nambiar

#5. Knowing your purpose prepares you for eternity.

Rick Warren

#6. A few primary keys to becoming a leader in business include having a clear intent or purpose, a truly inspiring vision, a grand message to share, a genuine social calling and a targeted niche to serve.

John Frederick Demartini

#7. It is not the purpose of a juryman's office to give justice as a favor to whoever seems good to him, but to judge according to law, and this he has sworn to do.

Socrates

#8. Censorship always defeats it own purpose, for it creates in the end the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion.

Henry Steele Commager

#9. I am a gypsy, Mahgen. What that means is that sometimes I do shit. On purpose. Shit, that pisses people off. And I like it. A lot.
-Madison Thorne Grey, Sustenance

Madison Thorne Grey

#10. A person without a philosophy for living is at the tender mercy of other people.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#11. You are free. You are powerful. You are good. You are love. You have value. You have purpose. All is well.

Esther Hicks

#12. 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

#13. Having a team of people united by one purpose - to bring Christ to that city - is key for the emotional stability of all decision makers.

J.A. Perez

#14. The purpose of debates is to explore issues, not end them.

David Gemmell

#15. The purpose of my life had always been to free people from concern. I dubbed it, 'The church of freedom from concern,' or 'FFC.

Jim Carrey

#16. It is always imagined before it is lived. In the world of thought, imaginations are lives, but people kill them before they grow to have life!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#17. The ultimate purpose of other creatures is not to be found in us. Rather, all creatures are moving forward with us and through us towards a common point of arrival, which is God, in that transcendent fullness where the risen Christ embraces and illumines all things.

Pope Francis

#18. If you don't put a value on money and seek wealth, you most probably won't receive it. You must seek wealth for it to seek you. If no burning desire for wealth arises within you, wealth will not arise around you. Having definiteness of purpose for acquiring wealth is essential for its acquisition.

John Frederick Demartini

#19. That only having left could she and her children achieve something like sublimity, that without movement there is no struggle, and without struggle there is no purpose, and without purpose there is nothing at all. She wanted to tell every mother, every father: There is meaning in motion.

Dave Eggers

#20. Often people ask how I manage to be happy despite having no arms and no legs. The quick answer is that I have a choice. I can be angry about not having limbs, or I can be thankful that I have a purpose. I chose gratitude.

Nick Vujicic

#21. No individual has any right to come into the world and go out of it without leaving behind him distinct and legitimate reasons for having passed through it.

George Washington Carver

#22. When you heed the calling of your heart, you are following your purpose. Having purpose in your life gives you the courage to do the things you are meant to do. When you are purpose driven, you have learned to listen to your intutition and never let no get in your way.

Rhonda Britten

#23. I'm not in the habit of having my photo snapped on some pretty young thing's arm. I avoid pictures because they serve no purpose, except to point out each new line, which is very meaningless.

George Harrison

#24. The discovery that the universe has no purpose need not prevent a human
being from having one.

Irwin Edman

#25. We love to learn because learning feels good. It both satisfies and stimulates curiosity. Reading a good book, having a meaningful conversation, listening to great music - just doing these things make us happy. They have no extrinsic purpose. To give them one takes away from their joy.

Zander Sherman

#26. Selfishness of the stable or rigid sort is as a rule more bitterly resented than the more fickle variety, chiefly, no doubt, because, having more continuity and purpose, it is more formidable.

Charles Horton Cooley

#27. Other than the fact that I'm entirely sick of Mexican food, Abe might be in there. And he might accidentally-on-purpose drop a plate of enchiladas into Harlin's lap if we're together.

Suzanne Young

#28. 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

#29. It sounds old-fashioned to say, but we have some kind of purpose for being here, not poets or writers, but all of us humans.

Pattiann Rogers

#30. A purpose directed disciplined action always bring success.

Debasish Mridha

#31. I certainly can't speak for all cultures or all societies, but it's clear that in America, poetry serves a very marginal purpose. It's not part of the cultural mainstream.

Mark Strand

#32. The absolute value of love makes life worth while, and so makes Man's strange and difficult situation acceptable. Love cannot save life from death; but it can fulfill life's purpose.

Arnold J. Toynbee

#33. We learn about life by exploring the texture and depth of space that composes our private inner world. In solitude we revisit our wounded feelings, sins, doubts, and deepest despair, replay poignant memories of loved ones, project what we are becoming, and ascertain the purpose of our being.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#34. What I don't like is when I see stuff that I know has had a lot of improv done or is playing around where there's no purpose to the scene other than to just be funny. What you don't want is funny scene, funny scene, funny scene, and now here's the epiphany scene and then the movie's over.

Paul Feig

#35. Everyone on this earth was born for a reason, what's yours?

Frank Sonnenberg

#36. It is a celebration of the fact that we were adopted for a purpose and that adoption is an experience that has the potential of teaching us some of life's richest and deepest lessons.

Sherrie Eldridge

#37. For a revolution is not just a question of pulling a trigger; its purpose is to create a fair just society

Nelson Mandela

#38. It's no longer about the Lost Boys. They keep trying to make their way out, then they meet other people and empathize with them. It's a story that a lot of people are going to discover their purpose from. When someone doesn't know their purpose, they get lost.

Emmanuel Jal

#39. So give up negative thinking and realize your potential

Sunday Adelaja

#40. Ambition is the incentive that makes purpose GREAT and ACHIEVEMENT greater!

Orison Swett Marden

#41. Living Life without a Purpose is like having an Ice cream cone in your hand, letting it melt and drip without eating it. It was yours to Enjoy, but you lost it!-RVM

R.v.m.

#42. If you don't find yourself and purpose, the world will be worse for it

Sunday Adelaja

#43. DAY 10 Thinking about My Purpose POINT TO PONDER: The heart of worship is surrender. VERSE TO REMEMBER: "Surrender your whole being to him to be used for righteous purposes." ROMANS 6:13B (TEV) QUESTION TO CONSIDER: What area of my life am I holding back from God?

Rick Warren

#44. The problem with this generation is they are so quick to define who they are in the process of searching. It is their need for immediate acceptance that keeps them from exploring further.

Shannon L. Alder

#45. Why is art beautiful? Because it's useless. Why is life ugly? Because it's all ends and purposes and intentions.

Fernando Pessoa

#46. Success isn't always going to be a huge contract; success is going to be if you just live out your purpose in life.

Allan Houston

#47. Align your personality with your purpose, and no one can touch you.

Oprah Winfrey

#48. Having a sense of purpose is having a sense of self. A course to plot is a destination to hope for.

Bryant H. McGill

#49. You are unfolding with profound purpose; your purpose is revealing you, to yourself.

Bryant McGill

#50. You were made for the place where your real # passion meets # compassion because there lies your real purpose.

Ann Voskamp