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The purpose of life is a life of purpose.
- Robert Byrne
Related topics: Values Purpose
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 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)
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The Main Thing is to Keep
The Main Thing The Main Thing.
- Stephen Covey
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
Winners Dream Big Dreams.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To lead a great life:
Dream, Take Action, Repeat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
"Hurry up" ranks right up there with "you need to"
as a destroyer of our humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The best way to cheer yourself
is to try to cheer someone else up.
- Mark Twain
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
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
A hero is someone who has given his life to
something bigger than himself
or something other than himself.
- Joseph Campbell
When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves
and our own self-preservation,
we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
- Joseph Campbell
If not us, who, if not now, when?
- Anonymous
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
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 miracle is not that we do this work,
but that we are happy to do it.
- Mother Teresa
Your work is to discover your world
and then with all your heart give yourself to it.
- The Buddha
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
No one saves us but ourselves.
No one can and no one may.
We ourselves must walk the path.
- The Buddha
More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent.
- Billy Sunday
Opening my mind to Spirit, I trust my intuition to deliver
powerful visions of my inspired future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You should not confuse your career with your life.
- Dave Barry
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
Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose.
- Leonardo da Vinci
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
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
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
What you are is God's gift to you:
what you become is your gift to god.
- Anthony Dalla Villa
One man with courage makes a majority.
- old saying probably repeated by Andrew Jackson
(falsely attributed to Jefferson)
The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The only ones among you who will be really happy
are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for,
he isn't fit to live.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
The meaning of Life is whatever we Choose.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Nothing happens unless first a dream.
- Carl Sandburg
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
The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives,
everything he does becomes tainted.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
I will act as if what I do makes a difference.
- William James
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 individual has any right to come into the world
and go out of it without leaving something behind.
- George Washington Carver
What power there is in our service when our actions
line up with our mission, skills and joy.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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 you have found your truth within yourself
there is nothing more in this whole existence to find.
- Osho
Only those who have learned the power
of sincere and selfless contribution
experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.
- Tony Robbins
If you don't know what you want, you will probably never get it.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
People are not lazy.
They simply have impotent goals -
that is, goals that do not inspire them.
- Tony Robbins
Resilience is about believing in yourself,
and trusting your own wisdom rather than
being swayed by the opinions of others.
- 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
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
March to the beat of your own drum.
- Proverb
Humility is not thinking less of yourself,
it's thinking of yourself less.
- Rick Warren (author of The Purpose Driven(R) Life)
Only put off until tomorrow
what you are willing to die having left undone.
- Pablo Picasso
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
The highest reward for a person's toil
is not what they get for it,
but what they become by it.
- John Ruskin
The purpose of human life is to serve,
and to show compassion and the will to help others.
- Albert Schweitzer
If a man does not keep pace with his companions,
perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
- Henry David Thoreau
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)
Nearly everything you do is of no importance,
but it is important that you do it.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important
as what you become by achieving your goals.
- Henry David Thoreau
Where there is no vision, there is no hope.
- George Washington Carver
I strive toward my vision,
while accepting gratefully whatever life offers me.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.
- John F. Kennedy
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
Without deep reflection,
one knows from daily life
that one exists for other people.
- Albert Einstein
You will never find time for anything.
If you want time you must make it.
- Charles Buxton
No wind favors he who has no destined port.
- Montaigne
As far as we can discern,
the sole purpose of human existence
is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
- Carl Jung
It is never too late to become what you might have been.
- George Eliot
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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