Top 100 Quotes About Purposeful
#1. Happiness can be defined as the function of the effort we put forth toward the realization of life's goals. When we understand that our purpose in this world is to strive toward purposeful accomplishment, precisely then will we experience happiness.
H.W. Charles
#2. Life is purposeless unless you make it purposeful.
Elena Ornig
#3. I believe that the astonishingly consistent and nuanced reality of the planetary correlations with the archetypal dynamics of human life is one of the most compelling intimations we have that we live in a meaning-laden and purposeful universe.
Richard Tarnas
#4. There is more courage and heroism in defying the human impulse, in taking the purposeful and painful steps to prepare for the unimaginable.
Malcolm Gladwell
#5. Living a fruitful and purposeful life has eternal blessings
Sunday Adelaja
#7. We all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake.
Erich Fromm
#8. Reza implemented an impressive number of reforms that were designed to turn the cracked empire he had inherited into a purposeful nation state. But he ended up, like so many of his fellow dictators, alone in his citadel. And much of the goods he did was nullified by the way he did it.
Christopher De Bellaigue
#10. The purposeful destruction of information is the essence of intelligent work.
Ray Kurzweil
#11. Allah knows exactly what to give you to help you return to Him. The events in your life are purposeful, appropriate & non-random.
Hamza Yusuf
#12. BE PURPOSEFUL AND THOUGHTFUL IN THE CHOICES YOU MAKE WHEN THE OPTIONS ARE NEARLY INFINITE.
Michael Bierut
#13. Worksheets - the archenemy of abundant, purposeful reading (and discussion and writing).
Mike Schmoker
#14. The ultimate foundation of spirituality is the recognition that there can't be such a thing as a purposeful life in a purposeless universe.
Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski
#15. We fought about it endlessly. He even went as far as to set up meetings with prominent girls in our social circle, attempting to make me a one woman man with a purposeful relationship. When I would bed these girls and leave them, Grandfather finally gave up.
Sadie Grubor
#16. 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
#17. Today is an opportunity to do something positive. Today is your chance to add new value to your life and to your world. Make the commitment to fill this day with meaningful richness and purposeful effort. This is your day to live, so do so with vigor and enthusiasm.
Ralph Marston
#18. Yoga is an art, a science and a philosophy. It touches the life of man atevery level: physical, mental, spiritual. It is a practical method formaking one's life purposeful, useful and noble.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#20. No matter how you feel you have to act
like you are very popular with yourself;
very relaxed and purposeful
very unconfused
and not
like you are walking through the sunshine
singing
in chains.
Tony Hoagland
#21. death is a joyous journey for the purposeful life and a melancholy for the mediocre life
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#22. Ella was vapid and worthless at least nine-tenths of the time, but when she got really mad, her face became sharp and purposeful. Almost vicious. Like if Barbie were suddenly possessed by Atilla the Hun.
Francine Pascal
#23. When I first met Tony Blair in 1996, he was open and idealistic, keen to bring a breath of fresh air to government. But something happened - was it just the arrogance of power? - that narrowed Labour's vision from purposeful reform and investment, to peevish and petulant pragmatism.
Rory Bremner
#24. Do not doubt your abilities. Do not delay your worthy impressions. With God's help, you cannot fail. He will give you the courage to participate in meaningful change and purposeful living.
Marvin J. Ashton
#25. This is the goal: To make available for life every place where life is possible. To make inhabitable all worlds as yet uninhabitable, and all life purposeful.
Hermann Oberth
#26. The world isn't purposeful. It isn't ruled by reason. The world wants to play. Fashion queens have always aroused more interest than future generations and their fate.
Kurt Tucholsky
#27. The first key to a purposeful living is to accept the responsibility of your mission. When you agree "yes" to the calling, then you ask God "why?".
Israelmore Ayivor
#28. Plan your hours to be productive ... Plan your weeks to be educational ... Plan your years to be purposeful. Plan your life to be an experience of growth. Plan to change. Plan to grow.
Iyanla Vanzant
#29. In cooperative learning, you have a purposeful, meaningful, and authentic context in which children can sharpen their communicative skills.
Lilian Katz
#30. The unheard to hear - the unseen to see - the more to be understood: transparency. A purposeful guiding to a place of progression where ends come together and a bridge exists for the seeking to cross over onto a road of new and lasting hope.
Calvin W. Allison
#32. The purposeful many need not and will not bow to the willful few.
Lyndon B. Johnson
#33. And it is change that always provides the opportunity for the new and different. Systematic innovation therefore consists in the purposeful and organized search for changes, and in the systematic analysis of the opportunities such changes might offer for economic or social innovation.
Peter F. Drucker
#34. I find when most people are honest about their spiritual pilgrimage, they admit to the difficulty of maintaining the habit of a spiritual discipline. What attracks me most about the Anglican spiritual tradition is that it provides purposeful spiritual direction in the life of Christ.
Robert E. Webber
#35. I'm not saying dating is sinful, and I'm not saying a guy and a girl should never spend time alone together. I'm saying let's wait until we can be purposeful, so there's a reason behind our relationship, and we're not just stirring up passion for the sake of a good time.
Joshua Harris
#36. The greatest killer of purpose and a purposeful life is compromising on mediocrity
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#37. Or are you exclusively "artful" because it's easier to excuse your sloppiness as purposeful?
Benjamin Percy
#38. With a purposeful story, you can change a "wanna be" to a "gonna be" to a "be".
Peter Guber
#39. If you are uncomfortable meeting people on your own, the perfect way to do it is to volunteer to help greet those who arrive. This way, you have a purposeful task that is meeting people. Be sure to wear your name tag (on the right side of your body, please) and have business cards at the ready.
Beth Ramsay
#41. I think that the idea of reaching young girls that are in college is something that we are strongly open to because who better wants to know how to live a more purposeful life than people who are starting out?
Oprah Winfrey
#42. Everything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed, the invisible intelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is also flowing through you
Wayne W. Dyer
#43. Do not be tired of doing good things. Victory comes after the battle; the crown follows the fight; the same way, behind purposeful actions is a great deal of success. Don't give up on the fight. Fight till them end; win till all is won.
Israelmore Ayivor
#44. Wise and purposeful letting alone is the best part of education.
Charlotte Mason
#45. Purposeful action is thus the goal of all that is truly educative.
John Dewey
#46. Avoid fragmentation: Find your focus and seek simplicity. Purposeful living calls for elegant efficiency and economy of effort-expanding the minimum time and energy necessary to achieve desired goals.
Dan Millman
#48. I started thinking about joy. Everything in our society is so purposeful. Let's bring joy back to the experience.
Sara Blakely
#49. The European style of living is seductive: fewer hours worked, more hours at the cafe, less concern over self-betterment. But that style of living does not produce a purposeful life.
Ben Shapiro
#50. Those whose purpose does not match yours are not wrong; they have their mission, and finding their own purposeful way may involve many detours and acts that seem destructive.
Wayne Dyer
#51. God's love is marvelous and mysterious, and no effort of man - no matter how elegant or purposeful - can explain that.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#52. When you engage in systematic, purposeful actin, using and stretching your abilities to the maximum, you cannot help but feel positive and confident abut yourself.
Brian Tracy
#53. 'Tell to Win' reveals the key elements that tellers of purposeful stories utilize to engage their listeners and turn them into viral advocates of the tellers' goals.
Peter Guber
#54. People fidget. They are compelled to look engaged in an activity, or purposeful. Vampires can just occupy space without feeling obliged to justify it.
Charlaine Harris
#55. I say human beings have purposeful brains beyond acting like flocks of scared pigeons.
Janny Wurts
#56. There is a lot of research to suggest that we feel better overall as we are progressing toward our goals; we have a sense of purposeful involvement, we give ourselves mental pats on the back for being so good and industrious, our self-esteem is enhanced, and our general life satisfaction is raised.
Richard O'Connor
#57. Abortion is inherently different from other medical procedures because no other procedure involves the purposeful termination of a potential life.
Potter Stewart
#58. Life is a miracle. YOU are a unique expression of this purposeful miracle. Think of how GREAT that makes you. Live big! You are not here to dwell within the basement of your potentiality.
Steve Maraboli
#59. Change isn't always easy, but with purposeful practice, any old habit can be replaced with a way of being we would recommend to those we love.
Bill Crawford
#60. Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives.
Lester Bangs
#61. Instead of a weak and vacillating Government, a single, purposeful, energetic personality is ruling today.
Hjalmar Schacht
#62. Success is a purposeful journey with ups and downs. It is not only about an accumulation of money.
Debasish Mridha
#63. There has been, down through the ages, a very real and "purposeful" conspiracy to thwart the plans of God.
Curtis A. Chamberlain
#64. Peace is not achievable as a direct object of purposeful behaviour.
Colin S. Gray
#65. Change for the better ... Let your change be purposeful and determined. Never repeat steps that always make you fail. Never change a step that brings you closer to excellence! You got to make a change!
Israelmore Ayivor
#66. Ambition is an uncomfortable companion many times. He creates a discontent with present surroundings and achievements; he is never satisfied but always pressing forward to better things in the future. Restless, energetic, purposeful, it is ambition that makes of the creature a real man.
Lyndon B. Johnson
#67. We must decide whether to act as if the universe is a cosmic car-crash, in which our actions have no significance beyond their observable effects, or an ordered and purposeful whole, in which our actions continue to echo and reverberate down all eternity.
Peter Hitchens
#68. Success isn't something you have, it's something you do. Don't be fooled into taking shortcuts, they always lead to a dead-end. Instead, establish a goal, make a plan, and take purposeful action. Those who experience success are those who live it; those who earn it.
Steve Maraboli
#69. He moved like a jungle cat, all purposeful, calculated motion - wrapped up in fluid grace.
Brigid Kemmerer
#70. Life is a gift, and should be cherished, lived and experienced. Though experience often reveals itself as pain in this world, it is still purposeful, it still has its place in the evolution of our spirit.
Michael Poeltl
#71. Being pursued, while easy, is purposeful. Intentional. Deliberate. It's not about getting a guy's attention--it's a process of ensuring that he's "the one."
Of all the men holding glass slippers, he has to be your perfect fit.
Bethany Jett
#72. I weigh my words before I say them. They're one thing I do have control over. And so I am purposeful with them. Deliberate. I decide what to give and what to hide. I watch for reactions. I study their impact.
Megan Miranda
#73. It was because historians made it sound so coherent, so purposeful, so complete. They'd take an entire century and impose a meaning on it, a personality, a destiny-and his was, of course, a lie.
Anne Rice
#76. It not seldom happens that in the purposeless rovings and wanderings of the imagination we hunt down such game as can be put to use by our purposeful philosophy in its well-ordered household.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
#77. Do it! People who succeed don't just sit and think about what they want to do. They take meaningful, purposeful, directional action consistently and persistently. Every step they take puts them toward the outcome they're looking for.
Phil McGraw
#78. In short, superheroes balance the forces of light and dark, rage and serenity, and the sacred and the profane within themselves and from it forge an identity that is powerful and purposeful.
Deepak Chopra
#79. It's funny because everyone says, 'Oh you're reclusive; you don't do social media,' but it's not about being reclusive. I like direct contact, and I like contact that's purposeful.
Banks
#80. I feel like my life is something purposeful. Many people have told me that after they listen to my talk, some point which I made, they got certain ideas and their whole life is changed. They are happier.
Dalai Lama
#81. Be purposeful in your actions. Be mindful to keep your behavior in alignment with your goals. Remember, you can refine, improve, and enhance yourself; all other control is illusory.
Steve Maraboli
#82. until we assign a time bound purposeful task to each day, each day we wake up would be regarded as a free day;free days are however fee days which we shall pay later
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#83. Let today be the day you stop having conflict between your actions and your goals and finally align your greatest intent with your purposeful actions, creating a universal symphony serenading your success!
Steve Maraboli
#84. The biggest hindrance in life is to live for other people and crave for their approval. This kind of behaviour diminishes your God given purpose and it leads you to live a barren life. Free yourself from the prison of pretence and live a purposeful lifestyle.
Euginia Herlihy
#85. When learning is purposeful, creativity blossoms. When creativity blossoms, thinking emanates. When thinking emanates, knowledge is fully lit. When knowledge is lit, economy flourishes.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
#86. And it's often in those battles that we are most alive: it's on the frontlines of our lives that we earn wisdom, create joy, forge friendships, discover happiness, find love, and do purposeful work. If you want to win any meaningful kind of victory, you'll have to fight for it.
Eric Greitens
#87. A good life is built on strong, solid values such as integrity, love, honesty, and purposeful work.
Kenneth H. Blanchard
#88. To be purposeful people who can get things done, we need to be able to organize our desires, goals, time, and efforts. This is an important aspect of functioning.
Henry Cloud
#89. I'd known for a long time why I loved history. It was because the historians made it sound so coherent, so purposeful, so complete. They'd take an entire century and impose a meaning on it, a personality, a destiny - and this was, of course, a lie.
Anne Rice
#90. Looked excitingly purposeful, with large video screens ranged over the control and guidance system panels on the concave wall, and long banks of computers set into the convex wall. In one corner a robot sat humped,
Douglas Adams
#91. Your initiatives should be purposeful. Never climb a tree with the purpose of plucking a fruit, only to come down with a leaf.
Israelmore Ayivor
#93. Let's not become too busy to keep in touch with those who really matter most and need us. Life's short but let's make an indelible purposeful and powerful impact with it
Bernard Kelvin Clive
#94. So here we have purposeful practice in a nutshell: Get outside your comfort zone but do it in a focused way, with clear goals, a plan for reaching those goals, and a way to monitor your progress. Oh, and figure out a way to maintain your motivation.
Anders Ericsson
#95. When you are on a time bound purposeful journey, rest is not just idleness but wastefulness.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#97. The key to living a purposeful life lies in identifying how best you can be a vehicle for God's divine love and light.
Rebecca Rosen
#98. You want less of the annoying nonsense that interferes with your portfolios and more of the significant data that allow you to become a less distracted, more purposeful investor.
Barry Ritholtz
#100. Life is difficult. Not just for me or other ALS patients. Life is difficult for everyone. Finding ways to make life meaningful and purposeful and rewarding, doing the activities that you love and spending time with the people that you love - I think that's the meaning of this human experience.
Steve Gleason
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