True Purpose Quotes

A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others.

Our love should not be just words and talk; it must be true love, which shows itself in action.

The true leader is a different sort; he seeks effective activity which has a truly beneficient purpose. He inspires others to follow in his wake, and holding aloft the torch of wisdom, leads the way for society to realize its genuinely great aspirations.

Always remember to fall asleep with a dream and wake up with a purpose.

Suffering cracks open the shell of ego, and then comes a point when it has served its purpose. Suffering is necessary until you realize it is unnecessary.

Those who love you are not fooled by mistakes you have made or dark images you hold about yourself. They remember your beauty when you feel ugly; your wholeness when you are broken; your innocence when you feel guilty; and your purpose when you are confused.

Aging is no accident. It is necessary to the human condition, intended by the soul. We become more characteristic of who we are simply by lasting into later years; the older we become, the more our true natures emerge. Thus the final years have a very important purpose: the fulfillment and confirmation of one’s character.

You will continue to suffer if you have an emotional reaction to everything that is said to you. True power is sitting back and observing everything with logic. If words control your that means everyone can control you. Breathe and allow things to pass.

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness.

It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself.

If teaching has any purpose, it is to implant true insight and responsibility.

Education must lead us from irresponsible opinion to true responsible judgement. It must lead us from chance and arbitrariness to rational clarity and intellectual order.

Be brave enough to live the life of your dreams according to your vision and and purpose instead of the expectations and opinions of others.

To be who you are and become what you are capable of is the only goal worth living.

I question and soul-search constantly into myself to be as certain as I can that I am fulfilling the true meaning of my work, that I am maintaining my sense of purpose, that I am holding fast to my ideals, that I am guiding my people in the right direction.

The true purpose of a business is to create and keep a customer, not to make you money.

Two things you will never have to chase: true friends and true love.

Civilization tries to persuade us we are going towards something, a distant goal. We have forgotten that our only goal is to live, to live each and every day, and that if we live each and every day, our true goal is achieved.

True beauty is knowing who you are and believing in yourself.

Happy people know their purpose, have courage to fight for it and strength to keep going.

Faith is not a refuge from reality. It is a demand that we face reality ... The true subject matter of religion is not our own little souls, but the Eternal God and His whole mysterious purpose, and our solemn responsibility to Him.

Knowing others is intelligence, knowing yourself is true wisdom.

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.

The true purpose of education is to make minds, not careers.

Enlightenment, or true happiness, is not a transcendental state.

It is a condition of broad wisdom, boundless energy, and good fortune wherein we each shape our own destiny, find fulfillment in daily activities, and come to understand our ultimate purpose in life.

Believe in your heart that you're meant to live a life full of passion, purpose, magic and miracles.

There is a purpose in life--to raise men nearer to the likeness of God.

Whoever seeks that ideal, daily, finds joy; and in no other way can true joy be found.

True success in this life comes in consecrating our lives—that is, our time and choices—to God’s purposes. In so doing, we permit Him to raise us to our highest destiny.

Even if you achieve your outer purpose, it will never satisfy you if you haven't found your inner purpose, which is awakening, being present, being in alignment with life. True power comes out of the presence; it is the presence.

Travel and tell no one, live a true love story and tell no one, live happily and tell no one, people ruin beautiful things.

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.

Nothing truly valuable arises from ambition or from a mere sense of duty;

it stems rather from love and devotion towards men and towards objective things.

When you suppress your true feelings or follow a path that isn’t really yours, you aren’t living your authentic self. Your soul made a plan for this life before you incarnated, and that plan is your true life purpose. Acting in line with your life purpose is one way to live in the light, another step on the path toward expanded consciousness.

Every man dies. Not every man really lives.

Love - true love - is a precious thing.

It is painful, uncomfortable, makes fools of us all, but it is what breathes meaning and color and purpose into our lives.

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.

Every life has a purpose. We need to let go of the past. Live in the present. Do not waste today worrying about what will happen tomorrow. Embrace your true spirit, embrace and listen to grace and you be transformed in the moment. Do not fixate on what you want but give thanks for what you have.

Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

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.

The real joy in life comes from finding your true purpose and aligning it with what you do every single day.

Better service for the customer is for the good of the public, and this is the true purpose of enterprise.

True love has a habit of coming back.

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.

I had found a kind of serenity, a new maturity.

I didn't feel better or stronger than anyone else but it seemed no longer important whether everyone loved me or not - more important now was for me to love them. Feeling that way turns your whole life around; living becomes the act of giving.

If the Church ever succeeds in doing that big thing, that great thing, that unspeakable thing that God purposes that we should do, it can only be when we enter into that Divine compassion of the Son of God.

Through fear of knowing who we really are we sidestep our own destiny, which leaves us hungry in a famine of our own making...we end up living numb, passionless lives, disconnected from our soul's true purpose. But when you have the courage to shape your life from the essence of who you are, you ignite, becoming truly alive.

Humility is not thinking less of yourself;

it is thinking of yourself less. Humility is thinking more of others.