Top 100 Quotes About Purposeful
#1. 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
#2. Everyone on this earth was born for a reason, what's yours?
Frank Sonnenberg
#3. A person without a philosophy for living is at the tender mercy of other people.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#5. Real success in the kingdom of God is not about being strong and looking good and knowing all the right answers. It's about continually yielding oneself to Jesus and determining to take purposeful little steps of obedience, and the ragged reality that it's all about God and His grace at work in us.
Mary Beth Chapman
#7. Remembering the past should help you create a purposeful future, not cause you to be afraid of it.
Bill Crawford
#8. Reading is a choice. The will to do depends the reader. We may or may not do it but when we kill reading, we kill a purposeful mind. Reading a page of a purposeful book per day is not only a great medicine to the mind but also a powerful antidote to ignorance and mediocrity
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#11. We may regard certain days as free days. Free days are however fee days. We will pay later
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#12. We cannot bear a pointless torment, but we can endure great pain if we believe that it's purposeful.
Andrew Solomon
#13. Faffing is completely harmless, whereas its opposite - dynamic, purposeful activity - is often very harmful. Faffers do not tend to kill people or make them work 12-hour days or sell them shoddy merchandise or lend them vast sums of money that they cannot pay back.
Tom Hodgkinson
#14. Your experiences, past, gifts and abilities are tools for purposeful living. Harness them and destiny shows up!
Bidemi Mark-Mordi
#15. You don't live until you begin to live for keeping
Sunday Adelaja
#16. Our weaknesses are divine gifts that when embraced will enable us to make our purposeful contribution to the whole, which is why we incarnated in the first place.
Andrew Schneider
#17. We all do think of getting to the ultimate in life.The ultimate way to get to the ultimate is to take the ultimate way in life
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#18. The truly effective managers we've observed are purposeful, trust in their own judgement, and adopt long-term, big-picture views to fulfill personal goals that tally with those of the organization as a whole. They break out of their perceived boxes, take control of their jobs, ...
Sumantra Ghoshal
#19. Design is, literally, purposeful planning. Graphic Design, then, is the form those plans will take.
Chip Kidd
#20. In the aftermath of 9/11, people had not a good time, but a deep, profound, rousing time, woke up from their ennui and isolation and trivialization to feel engaged, connected, purposeful, ready to give, to engage, to care, to learn.
Rebecca Solnit
#21. One dangerous thing about comfort is this: it always comforts and it can really stop real purpose!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#22. 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
#23. The difference between "active" and "busy" is that the former includes reflection and is directed, whereas the busy life feels out of control and does not seem purposeful or meaningful.
Robert J. Wicks
#24. I want to design dresses for the purposeful woman. Women who have passion - whether that be work- or something outside of work.
Sarah Lafleur
#25. You may not have the control to lengthen your life, but you can do much to deepen it.
Frank Sonnenberg
#26. If there's 10,000 people looking at the stocks and trying to pick winners, one in 10,000 is going to score, by chance alone, a great coup, and that's all that's going on. It's a game, it's a chance operation, and people think they are doing something purposeful ... but they're really not.
Merton Miller
#27. the major factor in whether people achieve expertise "is not some fixed prior ability, but purposeful engagement.
Carol S. Dweck
#28. We need money for daily living and upkeep. But money isn't everything.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#29. A belief in the purposeful complexity of Fate is always more comforting than random, straightforward facts. This may be why Mother preferred to believe in Atlantis and UFOs rather than in virtually everything else.
Bradley Denton
#30. Find your purpose, find your passion. Find your passion, find your purpose. Turn either way, it doesn't matter. Because how do you separate conjoined twins like these?
Jacob Nordby
#31. A life outside of Christ is both hard and frightening; a life in Christ has hard edges and dark valleys, but it is purposeful even when painful.
Rosaria Champagne Butterfield
#33. The Odyssey is the story of motion both purposeful and purposeless, successful and futile. What else is the history of law?
Bernhard Schlink
#35. We must remember that science is a way of using empirical evidence to better understand our world. We are all scientists, just many of us are not very good ones. However, we are all capable of exercising our intellects in a purposeful, linear pursuit of knowledge.
Chris Matakas
#36. All of her bones seemed more purposeful than other people's. Like they weren't just there to hold her up, they were there to make a point.
Rainbow Rowell
#37. Life becomes meaningful and all activities are purposeful only on the basis of faith in the enduring reality.
Meher Baba
#38. I sit watching until dusk, hypnotized. I think of the sea as continually sloshing back and forth, repetitive, but my psyche goes with the river- always loping downhill, purposeful, listening only to gravity.
Ann Zwinger
#39. Sometimes, after shedding all the loads with the view of making your heavy and sinking boat lighter so that you can sail and move on with the journey of purposeful life, you realize that there is one more thing to offload: disobedience, and there is one more thing to load: absolute faith!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#40. The purposeful restriction of knowledge has been at the heart of untold misery and hardship in this world. Serfs were kept illiterate so as to not jeopardize the feudal system. Slaves were kept in the dark on a variety of subjects so as to not provide them the possibility of escape.
Niger Innis
#42. It is said that the things that annoy us the most are the things that we are probably called to resolve.
Bidemi Mark-Mordi
#43. For many years of my life I thought one came down with a mood just as one comes down with a cold. But slowly I learned that moods are a product of purposeful unconsciousness and can be rectified by the very consciousness one worked so hard to evade.
Robert A. Johnson
#44. I think getting married gave me a focus. It gave me a focus and direction I want to have in my life. And I think having another person that you make such a purposeful bond with has given me the opportunity to see how that can be with all the other aspects of my life.
Selma Blair
#45. Is knowing Jesus more pleasurable, more exciting, more satisfying, more meaningful, more purposeful, and more full than anything I have or hope to possess?
Heather Holleman
#46. Next to our search for God, our search for our purpose is an adventure that leaves all other adventures as largely adventure-less.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#47. Life becomes a blessing when you discover your calling
Sunday Adelaja
#48. Every person has a longing to be significant, to make a contribution, to be a part of something noble and purposeful.
John C. Maxwell
#49. In life, when one gets to the point of a deeper sense of understanding about himself and his purpose, he least explains himself much to people who fail to understand him and his purpose. That must not be interpreted as neither pride nor an uncaring attitude but a great respect for purposefulness
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#50. 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
#51. Success never resides in the world of weak wishes, but in the palace of purposeful plans and prayerful persistence.
William Arthur Ward
#52. We all make mistakes, and we all need second chances. For youth in foster care, these mistakes are often purposeful - if not consciously so; a way to test the strength of a bond and establish trust in a new parent.
Vanessa Diffenbaugh
#53. To associate with other like-minded people in small, purposeful groups is for the great majority of men and women a source of profound psychological satisfaction. Exclusiveness will add to the pleasure of being several, but at one; and secrecy will intensify it almost to ecstasy.
Aldous Huxley
#54. He belongs to me, and I to him... without each-other, we are merely two lost pieces, empty, without purpose...
Chelsea Radojcic
#55. Practice routinely purposeful kindnesses and intelligent acts of beauty.
Dallas Willard
#56. Each positive thought, every vibrant attitude, all purposeful activities water the seeds for success along your path. You will encounter many seeds for success today. Pay attention to these and feed them appropriately. Then maintain their beautiful growth through conscious self-care.
Rebecca Gordon
#61. I just simply believe in having purposeful relations, period. That's what its about at the end of the day. However, I do appreciate people that are individualistic, mainly because I'm an impressionable soul and my friends become my big sisters and brothers in a way.
Aeriel Miranda
#62. Excuses are another way of saying "I don't want to". Purpose doesn't happen without resistance. Push through the barrier.
Bidemi Mark-Mordi
#63. It's easy to confuse a lot of activity with a purposeful life. Do what lasts; let the rest fall away.
Bob Goff
#64. Don't try to use God to achieve your purpose. Rather, aim to achieve His
Sunday Adelaja
#65. Once you become delivered, you have to find your calling and how to discover God's purpose for your life
Sunday Adelaja
#66. Hard times are purposeful, meant to refine and redirect us. They're not arbitrary or random, and they're definitely not cruel.
Liz Curtis Higgs
#67. Faith is a kind of knowing; it is different from hope. My faith is that life is purposeful; of that I'm sure. There is a God, there is intelligence, there is consciousness. And behind all of this, there is incredible compassion.
John Denver
#68. Naturally, everyone is expected to enter the future only once, but by the transport medium of dreams, great people enjoy the future twice! They pay a visit into the future by dreaming, and they relocate to settle in it by their purposeful actions!
Israelmore Ayivor
#69. Abortion of potentials is a massacre of purpose. You don't get the fruit because you killed the seeds!
Israelmore Ayivor
#70. Men, if we are to serve our wives with a purposeful love that moves them steadily toward Christlikeness, we must be men of grace - men who revel in God's grace, speak of God's grace, model God's grace.
Larry McCall
#72. Excuses; the great chains that entangle purposeful life to the pillar of unpurposeful living
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#73. Experts in aging make a distinction between passive aging and purposeful aging. Successful, purposeful aging calls for continued involvement, relationships, discipline, and an attitude of faith.
George Sweeting
#74. Laurie herself was more focused on the years when her kids were little, when she felt so necessary and purposeful, a battery all charged up with love. Every day she used it up and every night it got miraculously replenished. Nothing had ever been as good as that.
Tom Perrotta
#76. Occupy your thoughts with purpose and you will be so busy pursuing a meaningful future there will be no time for doubt, chaos and disappointment.
Carlos Wallace
#77. But he says things so subtly, so smoothly, that it's hard to tell if it's purposeful or if he's just playing along with my jokes.
Kasie West
#79. the only thing you can do with your life is give it away. You'll find yourself feeling purposeful if you can find a way to always be in the service of others.
Wayne W. Dyer
#80. Leadership embraces activism; it is the outcome of a purposeful pursuit of goals.
John Baldoni
#82. It was all very purposeful and sad when Anthony told Gloria one night that he wanted, above all things, to be killed. But, as always, they were sorry for each other for the wrong things at the wrong time ...
F Scott Fitzgerald
#83. The truth is that our unconscious minds are active, purposeful, and independent. Hidden they may be, but their effects are anything but, for they play a critical role in shaping the way our conscious minds experience and respond to the world.
Leonard Mlodinow
#84. Our legacy is not found in all the 'stuff' we've accumulated on our life's journey. It's written in the memories of those whose lives we've touched along the way.
Justin Young
#85. The born-again Christian sees life not as a blurred , confused, meaningless mass, but as something planned and purposeful.
Billy Graham
#86. Let the whole world tag you wrongly, brand you with evil and create a different you, and let God give you a solemn tag of dignity and see you differently, you have no problem at all!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#87. The idea that everything is purposeful really changes the way you live. To think that everything that you do has a ripple effect, that every word that you speak, every action that you make affects other people and the planet.
Victoria Moran
#88. Goals are like a magnet - they pull. And the stronger they are, the more purposeful they are, the bigger they are, the more unique they are, the stronger they pull.
Jim Rohn
#89. Paradoxical as it may seem, the purposeful life has no content, no point. It hurries on and on, and misses everything. Not hurrying, the purposeless life misses nothing, for it is only when there is no goal and no rush that the human senses are fully open to receive the world.
Alan W. Watts
#90. When you do what you love, the seemingly impossible becomes simply challenging, the laborious becomes purposeful resistance, the difficult loses its edge and is trampled by your progress.
Steve Maraboli
#91. Who we're told to be carries the weight of history behind it. We may not like it but we better know it. Who we're told to be is no accident, but rather a purposeful construction of centuries of accumulated fear. Who we're told to be can be deliberately deconstructed.
Mel Ash
#92. When we say "Thy will be done," do we say it with a sigh? If so, we have never realized that the character of God is holy love; nothing can ever happen outside His purposeful will.
Oswald Chambers
#96. Excellence is not just words, it's an act or process that paves the way for the purposeful and successful life.
Euginia Herlihy
#97. The majority prove their worth by keeping busy. A busy life is the nearest thing to a purposeful life.
Eric Hoffer
#98. Liberating a prejudiced mind from its preconceived notions and scripting a life of purposefulness requires constant postulation, observation, evaluation, and synthesizing.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#99. Whatever is within your limit, do it to lift the souls of humankind.
Lailah Gifty Akita
