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The purpose of life is a life of purpose.
- Robert Byrne
Related topics: Values Purpose
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch 
The future belongs to those
who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)
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
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
More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent.
- Billy Sunday
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
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
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
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
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
You should not confuse your career with your life.
- Dave Barry
I will act as if what I do makes a difference.
- William James
What power there is in our service when our actions
line up with our mission, skills and joy.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
One man with courage makes a majority.
- old saying probably repeated by Andrew Jackson
(falsely attributed to Jefferson)
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
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
The miracle is not that we do this work,
but that we are happy to do it.
- Mother Teresa
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
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
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
No individual has any right to come into the world
and go out of it without leaving something behind.
- George Washington Carver
The meaning of Life is whatever we Choose.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Your work is to discover your world
and then with all your heart give yourself to it.
- The Buddha
It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants.
The question is: What are we busy about?
- 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)
Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.
- John F. Kennedy
The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives,
everything he does becomes tainted.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The highest reward for a person's toil
is not what they get for it,
but what they become by it.
- John Ruskin
No one saves us but ourselves.
No one can and no one may.
We ourselves must walk the path.
- The Buddha
Opening my mind to Spirit, I trust my intuition to deliver
powerful visions of my inspired future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Without deep reflection,
one knows from daily life
that one exists for other people.
- Albert Einstein
No wind favors he who has no destined port.
- Montaigne
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
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
It is never too late to become what you might have been.
- George Eliot
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
Only those who have learned the power
of sincere and selfless contribution
experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.
- Tony Robbins
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
Be resolute in your goals,
but flexible in your tactics.
- 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
Nothing happens unless first a dream.
- Carl Sandburg
You will never find time for anything.
If you want time you must make it.
- Charles Buxton
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority,
it is time to pause and reflect.
- Mark Twain
I strive toward my vision,
while accepting gratefully whatever life offers me.
- 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
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for,
he isn't fit to live.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
People are not lazy.
They simply have impotent goals -
that is, goals that do not inspire them.
- Tony Robbins
If you don't know what you want, you will probably never get it.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The indispensable first step to getting
the things you want out of life is this:
Decide what you want.
- Ben Stein
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
If a man does not keep pace with his companions,
perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
- Henry David Thoreau
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 purpose of human life is to serve,
and to show compassion and the will to help others.
- Albert Schweitzer
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
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
Resilience is about believing in yourself,
and trusting your own wisdom rather than
being swayed by the opinions of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Begin each day as if it were on purpose.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
Humility is not thinking less of yourself,
it's thinking of yourself less.
- Rick Warren (author of The Purpose Driven(R) Life)
What you are is God's gift to you:
what you become is your gift to god.
- Anthony Dalla Villa
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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