Top 100 True Purpose Quotes
#1. If you want to discover your true purpose for existing, all you have to do is look deeply into the things that bring you joy.
Toni Sorenson
#2. Let us subdue the ravages of the baser-self, and aspire to the higher calling of exalting joy through compassion, for that is the one true purpose of humanity.
Bryant McGill
#3. It is not enough to invent new machines, new regulations, or new institutions. We must understand differently and more perfectly the true purpose of our existence on this earth.
Vaclav Havel
#4. There is no substitute for finding true purpose. But the true or primary purpose of your life cannot be found on the outer level. It does not concern what you do but what you are - that is to say, your state of consciousness.
Eckhart Tolle
#5. There is a supernal intelligence behind sexual arousal, the true purpose of which is to create for us ecstatic experiences of our own divinity.
John Maxwell Taylor
#6. The real joy in life comes from finding your true purpose and aligning it with what you do every single day.
Tony Robbins
#7. The true purpose of yoga is to discover that aspect of your being that can never be lost.
Deepak Chopra
#8. Self-realization is, in fact, the only religion. For it is the true purpose of religion, no matter how people define their beliefs.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#9. I learned that the true purpose of working with a horse at liberty in a round pen is simply this: to capture his attention and get him interested in you.
Sharon Foley
#10. Real success is to understand why you were made and to know what your calling is - Only God can correctly tell another person what his true purpose in life is
Sunday Adelaja
#11. Maybe the true purpose of my life is for my body, my sensations and my thoughts to become writing, in other words, something intelligible and universal, causing my existence to merge into the lives and heads of other people.
Annie Ernaux
#12. It's a matter of choosing what is most important to you and putting that first. Once you have recognized your true purpose in life, this becomes much easier.
Clarence Clemons
#13. The true purpose of a present is to be received.
Marie Kondo
#15. A true desire is not to have but to be. We are whole creatures in potential, and the true purpose of desire is to unfold that wholeness, to become what we can be.
Eric Butterworth
#16. Comparing ourselves instead of taking lessons from ourselves is not only a catalyst to diminishing our true purpose but also a great ingredient to thinking negative and staying in mediocrity
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#17. I am at your service, my lady, I said, standing and releasing her hand. For the first time in my life I understood the true purpose of this sort of formal greeting. It gives you a script to follow when you have absolutely no idea what to say.
Patrick Rothfuss
#18. 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
#20. Each of us should make the most of our lives. We should give life our best-let us use our lives more wisely to chase our dreams, find our true purpose, and be as happy and successful as possible.
Malcolm X
#21. But these are merely words. You have caught that Light but still have not found humanity. Seek humanity: that is your true purpose. The rest is mere long-windedness. When words are elaborately decorated, their purpose is forgotten.
Rumi
#22. There is only one true purpose in life: to wake up from the delusion that you are separate from everything else.
Chuck Hillig
#23. Better service for the customer is for the good of the public, and this is the true purpose of enterprise.
Konosuke Matsushita
#24. The true purpose of prayer is to get into God's presence so He can outline His agenda for us.
Mark Batterson
#25. Don't let the situation say stop to your true purpose;say stop to the situation. Situations are situations and you are you
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#26. Whatever you are struggling with, is a reminder for you to find your true purpose in this lifetime.
Deepak Chopra
#27. The true purpose of education is to prepare young men and women for effective citizenship in a free form of government.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#28. I thought this director gig was just one of those side roads we take at times on the journey to our true purpose. Now I see that in God's economy, nothing is wasted
Gay Idle
#29. Life's adversity strengthens us to embrace - life's true purpose and destiny.
Eleesha
#30. The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us.
Anna Brownell Jameson
#31. It's time for you to become an amazing person that you truly are and realize your true purpose in life.
Adam Spencer
#32. As long as it is admitted that the law may be diverted from its true purpose
that it may violate property instead of protecting it
then everyone will want to participate in making the law, either to protect himself against plunder or to use it for plunder.
Frederic Bastiat
#33. Human beings do not know their place and purpose. They have fallen from their true place, and lost their true purpose. They search everywhere for their place and purpose, with great anxiety. But they cannot find them because they are surrounded by darkness.
Blaise Pascal
#34. I wondered what else in my life I perceived to be wrong or difficult instead of exploring to understand the true purpose.
Marlo Morgan
#35. To Embrace The True Purpose Of The Kingdom Is To Have A Changed Live
Sunday Adelaja
#36. Once you can let go of illusion and draw upon a more universal source of motivation then you will re connect with your true purpose on Earth.
Gary Markwick
#37. The immediate future is going to be tragic for all of us unless we find a way of making the vast educational resources of this country serve the true purpose of education, truth and justice.
Anne Sullivan
#38. Do not go for conformity that breeds mediocrity! Choose instead to stand for transformation that does not only transforms lives, but true purpose and living as well.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#39. We may know our true purpose in life, because we may choose our purpose in life.
Bryant McGill
#40. Your true purpose is to become your own unique self, and to do so with happiness and freedom from fear.
Bryant McGill
#41. The home only fulfills its true purpose when it is God-controlled. Leave Jesus Christ out of your home and it loses its meaning. But take Christ into your heart and the life of your family, and He will transform your home.
Billy Graham
#42. Hope deprives us of everything that is not God, in order that all things may serve their true purpose as means to bring us to God.
Thomas Merton
#43. It was hard enough to get to this point, to figure out what my true purpose is and who I am, and then when I found the courage to start living it, I thought the hard work was done!
E. E. Cummings
#44. Our own sense of self-worth refuses to accept that our existence is a wonderful accident, and that there is no true purpose in it, except for the purposes we make for ourselves.
Albert Williams
#45. Many of us spend our early years in unconscious flight from our true purpose, only to run smack into it at last, like a fleeing movie heroine who backs around a corner - we know what comes next - and turns abruptly to find herself face to face with her nemesis, or, more often, her deliverance.
Carey Harrison
#46. When you can see the stakes, when you realize the true purpose of your mission, it motivates you. It makes you focus. It makes you push away the distractions. You gain clarity of purpose. You gain strength.
Harlan Coben
#47. The true purpose [of Zen] is to see things as they are, to observe things as they are, and to let everything go as it goes ... Zen practice is to open up our small mind.
Shunryu Suzuki
#48. By making a soul connection, your true purpose in life will become the foundation of everything you do.
Deepak Chopra
#49. In the midst of compassion, we find ourselves. We discover our true purpose.
Jana Elston
#50. The true purpose is to see things as they are, to observe things as they are, and to let everything go as it goes.
Shunryu Suzuki
#51. In Africa I discovered what the true purpose of a musician is. We are historians, and it is our purpose to tell the people the true story of our past, and to extend a better vision of the future.
Randy Weston
#52. When you forget about your self consciousness for a moment, you forget about your true self, your real you and your true purpose for a moment
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#53. She might get lonely at times. But that was to be expected. The only way to stop those feelings was to live a life devoted to others. That was her true purpose in life. She was a mere background character in other people's lives.
Lily George
#54. Surrender is not a weakness, or state of inaction, but rather a powerful state of pure energy; the energy of becoming your true purpose.
Bryant H. McGill
#56. Hand writing causes thinking - the repetition of writing your goal everyday will increase your awareness. The true purpose of a goal is to help you grow.
Bob Proctor
#57. Facts without context are like individuals without society. Just as an individual must find his or her place in society or else they are useless, a fact must find its place in an argument or else it serves no true purpose.
Tom King
#58. 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
#59. I've had to make the difficult decision to follow my intuition, and allow myself the space and time to explore my true purpose in life.
Larry Sanders
#60. The true purpose of the various directives, regulations, and pocket-sized codes of conduct handed out to troops was not to implement genuine safeguards for noncombatants, but to give the military a paper trail of plausible deniability.
Nick Turse
#61. That's because the true purpose of money is to manipulate others and make them feel lesser than you." "I'm not entirely sure about that," Emma said. "Only kidding!" said Horace. "It's to buy clothes, of course.
Ransom Riggs
#62. The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset.
Liberty Hyde Bailey
#63. That was the true purpose of Slough House. It was a way of losing people without having to get rid of them, sidestepping legal hassle and tribunal threats.
Mick Herron
#64. Work may be your dominant thought, and joy an afterthought. But joy is your true purpose, and work the afterthought.
Alan Cohen
#65. The true end of life is not mere existence, not pleasure, not fame, not wealth. The true purpose of life is the perfection of humanity through individual effort, under the guidance of God's inspiration.
David O. McKay
#66. You will find your way. Don't be afraid of getting stuck in some of the necessary compromises. Learn everything you can from each experience, even if something seems irrelevant to your true purpose.
Wendy Lustbader
#67. The true purpose of illustrated journaling [is] to celebrate your life. No matter how small or mundane or redundant, each drawing and little essay you write to commemorate an event or an object or a place makes it all the more special.
Danny Gregory
#68. The true purpose of tidying is, I believe, to live in the most natural state possible. Don't you think it is unnatural for us to possess things that don't bring us joy or things that we don't really need? I believe that owning only what we love and what we need is the most natural condition.
Marie Kondo
#69. When we face our fear of death and slow down our busy lives, we come to realize our relationships are precious, a part of life's foundation. Knowing this fact helps us to understand that death's true purpose is to teach us how to live.
Molly Friedenfeld
#70. The true purpose of a business is to create and keep a customer, not to make you money.
Theodore Levitt
#71. Your identity should not be fully defined by what you do, by being a manager, a wife, a mother of children or a computer programmer
Sunday Adelaja
#72. When God give you a vision, He will give you what you need to accomplish the vision.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#73. True healing is not physical - it is a spiritual awakening to our True Self. If art is used for that purpose then it can be quite healing as it purifies the mind of thoughts that create disease.
Judith Cornell
#74. I feel more beautiful than I've ever felt because I've given birth. I have never felt so connected, never felt like I had such a purpose on this earth. The best thing about having a daughter is having a true legacy. The word love means something completely different now.
Beyonce Knowles
#75. University printing presses exist, and are subsidised by the Government for the purpose of producing books which no one can read; and they are true to their high calling.
Francis Cornford
#76. Our purpose is to produce students who have that rare and precious combination of a superb secular education, complemented by faith in the Lord, a knowledge of the doctrines He has revealed, and a testimony that they are true.
Boyd K. Packer
#77. Men do not invent Myths. They only invent fables, and tell lies. True Myths create themselves, and find their expression in the men who serve their purpose.
Denis Johnston
#78. The purpose of art is to represent the meaning of things. This represents the true reality, not external aspects.
Aristotle.
#79. In 'The Republic' he [Plato] states that the enjoyment of food is not a true pleasure because the purpose of eating is to relieve pain - hunger.
Mark Kurlansky
#80. Your faith provides you focus and vision for your life. It is your true north compass and GPS of self-awareness and self-management. Your faith is your lens to focus on how your talents, skills, gifts, and abilities will allow you to live on purpose
Thomas Narofsky
#81. According to the director, Primer is a movie about the relationship between risk and trust. This is true. But it also makes a concrete point about the potential purpose of time travel - it's too important to use only for money, but too dangerous to use for anything else.
Chuck Klosterman
#82. The whole purpose of scientific method is to make valid distinctions between the false and the true in nature, to eliminate the subjective, unreal, imaginary elements from one's work so as to obtain an objective, true picture of reality.
Robert M. Pirsig
#83. The easiest way to discover the purpose of an invention is to ask the creator of it. The same is true for discovering your life's purpose: Ask God.
Rick Warren
#84. True life begins with a dream to dazzle, a purpose to live for, and a plan to realize it.
Debasish Mridha
#85. Life can only be enjoyed as one acquires a true perspective of life and death and of the real purpose of life.
Spiros Zodhiates
#86. The efficient market theory is one of the better models in the sense that it can be taken as true for every purpose I can think of. For investment purposes, there are very few investors that shouldn't behave as if markets are totally efficient.
Eugene Fama
#87. What happens when you combine your passion, strength and value? This is the process of creating true art.
J.R. Rim
#88. In understanding and developing your true identity, you can stand on solid ground because you are a person of God's unique creation
Sunday Adelaja
#89. We all want to feel like the most beautiful girl in the room, to be chosen and loved forever. The Cinderella story gives us hope of our impossible dreams becoming true.
Beth Moore Jones
#90. A person of character seeks true happiness in living a life of purpose and meaning, placing a higher value on significance than success.
Michael Josephson
#91. The mind was designed not to defend what we want, but to discover what is ultimately true, which should shape our wants and satisfy them more deeply with God. The purpose of the mind is not to rationalize subjective preferences, but to recognize objective reality and to help the heart revel in God.
John Piper
#93. The beautiful illusion of fiction is that everything makes sense and that there was a purpose, that there was a point to it all. And that's the best possible lie because it may even be true.
Neil Gaiman
#94. Dear women, do not marry until you find your true being, your mission
Sunday Adelaja
#95. If you feel stuck in your present life, if you feel no enthusiasm for anything, if you think you have no purpose or that you lost that purpose somewhere along the way, I guarantee you are living in a dungeon made of stories. And that none of those limiting stories are true.
Martha Beck
#96. But the purpose of studying Buddhism is to study ourselves and to forget ourselves. When we forget ourselves, we actually are the true activity of the big existence, or reality itself.
Shunryu Suzuki
#97. Consider this point. It is a main point of true wisdom. Whenever there is an execution of purpose, there must be an agent.
Adoniram Judson
#98. We all have a unique art, our personal passion that serves as a vessel through which our souls can speak. True happiness is found by filling it, and purpose is fulfilled by pouring it out.
Cristen Rodgers
#99. What a beautiful testament to the creative spirit and its true motives, to creative contribution coming from a place of purpose rather than a hunger for profit.
Leonard Cohen
#100. The true way for one to understand their life's purpose is for one to truely understand themselves.
Shawn Mitchell
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