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Please enjoy these Quotes about Purpose and Friendship from my collection of Friendship quotes.
The future belongs to those
who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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Your visions will become clear only
when you can look into your own heart.
Who looks outside, dreams;
who looks inside, awakes.
- Carl Jung
The purpose of human life is to serve,
and to show compassion and the will to help others.
- Albert Schweitzer
Our aspirations are our possibilities.
- Robert Browning
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The most pathetic person in the world
is someone who has sight, but has no vision.
- Helen Keller
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
Let there be no purpose in friendship
save the deepening of the spirit.
- Khalil Gibran
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
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
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
The purpose of life is a life of purpose.
- Robert Byrne
The best way to cheer yourself
is to try to cheer someone else up.
- Mark Twain
The Main Thing is to Keep
The Main Thing The Main Thing.
- Stephen Covey
To lead a great life:
Dream, Take Action, Repeat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)
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
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
Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose.
- Leonardo da Vinci
If not us, who, if not now, when?
- Anonymous
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent.
- Billy Sunday
March to the beat of your own drum.
- Proverb
What power there is in our service when our actions
line up with our mission, skills and joy.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
If a man does not keep pace with his companions,
perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
- Henry David Thoreau
The meaning of Life is whatever we Choose.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What you are is God's gift to you:
what you become is your gift to god.
- Anthony Dalla Villa
When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves
and our own self-preservation,
we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
- Joseph Campbell
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
If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely.
It is absolutely touch and go.
Each one of us could make the difference.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
The law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world.
To be effective it demands the sacrifice
of the bravest and the most spotless.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
I will act as if what I do makes a difference.
- William James
No one saves us but ourselves.
No one can and no one may.
We ourselves must walk the path.
- The Buddha
Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
- Albert Einstein
Nothing happens unless first a dream.
- Carl Sandburg
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
Resilience is about believing in yourself,
and trusting your own wisdom rather than
being swayed by the opinions of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Your work is to discover your world
and then with all your heart give yourself to it.
- The Buddha
If a man does not know what port he is steering for,
no wind is favorable to him.
- Seneca
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,
committed people can change the world.
Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
- Margaret Mead
If you don't know where you are going,
you might wind up someplace else.
- Yogi Berra
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
The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive,
but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
The most difficult phase of life
is not when no one understands you,
it is when you don't understand yourself.
- Anonymous
The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives,
everything he does becomes tainted.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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 miracle is not that we do this work,
but that we are happy to do it.
- Mother Teresa
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
We may stumble, but always there is that eternal voice,
forever whispering within our ear,
that thing which causes the eternal quest,
that thing which forever sings and sings.
- Ernest Holmes
No individual has any right to come into the world
and go out of it without leaving something behind.
- George Washington Carver
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
Opening my mind to Spirit, I trust my intuition to deliver
powerful visions of my inspired future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Humility is not thinking less of yourself,
it's thinking of yourself less.
- Rick Warren (author of The Purpose Driven(R) Life)
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important
as what you become by achieving your goals.
- Henry David Thoreau
If one advances confidently
in the direction of his dreams,
and endeavors to live
the life which he has imagined,
he will meet with success
unexpected in common hours.
- Henry David Thoreau
No wind favors he who has no destined port.
- Montaigne
A hero is someone who has given his life to
something bigger than himself
or something other than himself.
- Joseph Campbell
Without deep reflection,
one knows from daily life
that one exists for other people.
- Albert Einstein
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
You will never find time for anything.
If you want time you must make it.
- Charles Buxton
I strive toward my vision,
while accepting gratefully whatever life offers me.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority,
it is time to pause and reflect.
- Mark Twain
Nearly everything you do is of no importance,
but it is important that you do it.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
One man with courage makes a majority.
- old saying probably repeated by Andrew Jackson
(falsely attributed to Jefferson)
You should not confuse your career with your life.
- Dave Barry
The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Be resolute in your goals,
but flexible in your tactics.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
With realization of one's own potential and
self-confidence in one's ability,
one can build a better world.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
"Hurry up" ranks right up there with "you need to"
as a destroyer of our humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you don't know what you want, you will probably never get it.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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