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The purpose of life is a life of purpose.
- Robert Byrne
Related topics: Values Purpose
The future belongs to those
who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
- Eleanor Roosevelt 
If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
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The Main Thing is to Keep
The Main Thing The Main Thing.
- Stephen Covey
Winners Dream Big Dreams.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
"Hurry up" ranks right up there with "you need to"
as a destroyer of our humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Find a time and place of solitude.
Look into the distance, and into the future.
Visualize the tomorrow you are going to build -
and begin to build that tomorrow, today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
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
To lead a great life:
Dream, Take Action, Repeat.
- 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
Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose.
- Leonardo da Vinci
More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent.
- Billy Sunday
If not us, who, if not now, when?
- Anonymous
The purpose of human life is to serve,
and to show compassion and the will to help others.
- Albert Schweitzer
The best way to cheer yourself
is to try to cheer someone else up.
- Mark Twain
Only those who have learned the power
of sincere and selfless contribution
experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.
- Tony Robbins
You will never find time for anything.
If you want time you must make it.
- Charles Buxton
Our aspirations are our possibilities.
- Robert Browning
What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea.
It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience,
something that never has been and never could
have been experienced by anyone else.
- Joseph Campbell
The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
March to the beat of your own drum.
- Proverb
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
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately,
to front only the essential facts of life,
and see if I could not learn what it had to teach,
and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
- Henry David Thoreau
It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants.
The question is: What are we busy about?
- Henry David Thoreau
Whatever your life's work is, do it well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The meaning of Life is whatever we Choose.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
The important thing is this: to be able, at any moment,
to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.
- Charles Du Bos (1882-1939), from his book Approximations (1922)
(not Charles DuBois or Maharishi Mahesh Yogi)
The only ones among you who will be really happy
are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer
The highest reward for a person's toil
is not what they get for it,
but what they become by it.
- John Ruskin
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
When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves
and our own self-preservation,
we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
- Joseph Campbell
Going nowhere faster will not get you somewhere.
- Alan Cohen
The probability that we may fail
in the struggle ought not to deter us
from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
- Abraham Lincoln
The most pathetic person in the world
is someone who has sight, but has no vision.
- Helen Keller
Do you have a plan for your life?
If not, allocate some time today to sit quietly
with pen and paper to begin writing your life plan -
what you want to accomplish with your life,
and what projects will support your goals.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important
as what you become by achieving your goals.
- Henry David Thoreau
If a man does not keep pace with his companions,
perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
Only put off until tomorrow
what you are willing to die having left undone.
- Pablo Picasso
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
One man with courage makes a majority.
- old saying probably repeated by Andrew Jackson
(falsely attributed to Jefferson)
No individual has any right to come into the world
and go out of it without leaving something behind.
- George Washington Carver
Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed,
and in such desperate enterprises?
If a man does not keep pace with his companions,
perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
Resilience is about believing in yourself,
and trusting your own wisdom rather than
being swayed by the opinions of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for,
he isn't fit to live.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Without deep reflection,
one knows from daily life
that one exists for other people.
- Albert Einstein
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority,
it is time to pause and reflect.
- Mark Twain
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
A hero is someone who has given his life to
something bigger than himself
or something other than himself.
- Joseph Campbell
If you don't know what you want, you will probably never get it.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Nothing happens unless first a dream.
- Carl Sandburg
The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives,
everything he does becomes tainted.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
It is never too late to become what you might have been.
- George Eliot
What you are is God's gift to you:
what you become is your gift to god.
- Anthony Dalla Villa
Be resolute in your goals,
but flexible in your tactics.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The miracle is not that we do this work,
but that we are happy to do it.
- 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
No wind favors he who has no destined port.
- Montaigne
I strive toward my vision,
while accepting gratefully whatever life offers me.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Whatever you do or don't do in your lifetime,
your best contribution to those around you
and to future generations
will be in the happiness and joy
you generated and radiated to those around you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive,
but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
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
Nearly everything you do is of no importance,
but it is important that you do it.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
If a man does not know what port he is steering for,
no wind is favorable to him.
- Seneca
The indispensable first step to getting
the things you want out of life is this:
Decide what you want.
- Ben Stein
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