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Please enjoy these Quotes about Purposes and Friendship from my collection of Friendship quotes.
We're so engaged in doing things
to achieve purposes of outer value
that we forget the inner value,
the rapture that is associated
with being alive, is what it is all about.
- Joseph Campbell
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Great minds have purposes others have wishes.
- Washington Irving
The Science of Mind is intensely practical
because it teaches us how to use
the Mind Principle for definite purposes,
such as helping those who are sick, impoverished, or unhappy.
- Ernest Holmes
Is the system going to flatten you out
and deny you your humanity,
or are you going to be able to make use of the system
to the attainment of human purposes?
- Joseph Campbell
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The purpose of human life is to serve,
and to show compassion and the will to help others.
- Albert Schweitzer
Your visions will become clear only
when you can look into your own heart.
Who looks outside, dreams;
who looks inside, awakes.
- Carl Jung
Let there be no purpose in friendship
save the deepening of the spirit.
- Khalil Gibran
The most pathetic person in the world
is someone who has sight, but has no vision.
- Helen Keller
Our aspirations are our possibilities.
- Robert Browning
Whatever your life's work is, do it well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
You can never really live anyone else's life,
not even your child's.
The influence you exert is through your own life,
and what you've become yourself.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Going nowhere faster will not get you somewhere.
- Alan Cohen
When we come into the present,
we begin to feel the life around us again,
but we also encounter whatever we have been avoiding.
We must have the courage to face whatever is present -
our pain, our desires, our grief,
our loss, our secret hopes our love -
everything that moves us most deeply.
- Jack Kornfield
More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent.
- Billy Sunday
The very nature of the world is constant change.
You set a goal and create a plan to achieve it;
then the assumptions on which you
based your plan change - they always do.
The challenge is to retain your goals
while adapting your tactics.
Relax and stay flexible in order to reach
your goals and maintain your happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The purpose of life is a life of purpose.
- Robert Byrne
To lead a great life:
Dream, Take Action, Repeat.
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The best way to cheer yourself
is to try to cheer someone else up.
- Mark Twain
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
To live is to choose. But to choose well,
you must know who you are and what you stand for,
where you want to go and why you want to get there.
- Kofi Annan
If not us, who, if not now, when?
- Anonymous
If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)
The Main Thing is to Keep
The Main Thing The Main Thing.
- Stephen Covey
The future belongs to those
who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The whole art of teaching is only the art
of awakening the natural curiosity
of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
- Anatole France
When you dance, your purpose is not to get
to a certain place on the floor.
It's to enjoy each step along the way.
- Wayne Dyer
Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose.
- Leonardo da Vinci
If a man does not know what port he is steering for,
no wind is favorable to him.
- Seneca
I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know:
the only ones among you who will be really happy
are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer
The way you get meaning into your life
is to devote yourself to loving others,
devote yourself to your community around you,
and devote yourself to creating something
that gives you purpose and meaning
- Mitch Albom
Where are you going? Where does your path lead?
You can never know the future, yet wandering aimlessly
is unlikely to be the source of a fulfilling life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants.
The question is: What are we busy about?
- Henry David Thoreau
We ourselves feel that what we are doing
is just a drop in the ocean.
But the ocean would be less
because of that missing drop.
- Mother Teresa
March to the beat of your own drum.
- Proverb
No individual has any right to come into the world
and go out of it without leaving something behind.
- George Washington Carver
People are not lazy.
They simply have impotent goals -
that is, goals that do not inspire them.
- Tony Robbins
I strive toward my vision,
while accepting gratefully whatever life offers me.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Money has never made man happy, nor will it,
there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness.
The more of it one has the more one wants.
- Benjamin Franklin
The most difficult phase of life
is not when no one understands you,
it is when you don't understand yourself.
- Anonymous
The miracle is not that we do this work,
but that we are happy to do it.
- Mother Teresa
Be resolute in your goals,
but flexible in your tactics.
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You will never find time for anything.
If you want time you must make it.
- Charles Buxton
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important
as what you become by achieving your goals.
- Henry David Thoreau
I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing
was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
- Margaret Mead
Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
- Albert Einstein
What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us;
what we have done for others and the world
remains and is immortal.
- Albert Pike
No wind favors he who has no destined port.
- Montaigne
One man with courage makes a majority.
- old saying probably repeated by Andrew Jackson
(falsely attributed to Jefferson)
If a man does not keep pace with his companions,
perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
- Henry David Thoreau
Only one who devotes himself to a cause
with his whole strength and soul
can be a true master.
For this reason mastery demands all of a person.
- Albert Einstein
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for,
he isn't fit to live.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Winners Dream Big Dreams.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive,
but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
Only put off until tomorrow
what you are willing to die having left undone.
- Pablo Picasso
The meaning of Life is whatever we Choose.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Only those who have learned the power
of sincere and selfless contribution
experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.
- Tony Robbins
Your work is to discover your world
and then with all your heart give yourself to it.
- The Buddha
Nothing happens unless first a dream.
- Carl Sandburg
The only ones among you who will be really happy
are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer
Resilience is about believing in yourself,
and trusting your own wisdom rather than
being swayed by the opinions of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You should not confuse your career with your life.
- Dave Barry
Opening my mind to Spirit, I trust my intuition to deliver
powerful visions of my inspired future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you don't know where you are going,
you might wind up someplace else.
- Yogi Berra
The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
If a man loses pace with his companions,
perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
Let him step to the music which he hears,
however measured or far away.
- Henry David Thoreau
The highest reward for a person's toil
is not what they get for it,
but what they become by it.
- John Ruskin
What power there is in our service when our actions
line up with our mission, skills and joy.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
It is never too late to become what you might have been.
- George Eliot
"Hurry up" ranks right up there with "you need to"
as a destroyer of our humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives,
everything he does becomes tainted.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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