Purpose Quotes

"The purpose of education is to make good human beings with skill and expertise. Enlightened human beings can be created by teachers."

"The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher."

Elbert Hubbard

"Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it."

Marian Wright Edelman

"Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in life has purpose."

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

"Our prime purpose in this life is to help others."

"What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?"

George Eliot

"The secret of success is constancy to purpose."

Benjamin Disraeli

"Don't aim at success. The more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it."

Viktor Frankl

"My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive."

"People don't buy what you do; they buy why you do it."

Simon Sinek

"Find out who you are and do it on purpose."

"He who has a why to live can bear almost any how."

"Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life – think of it, dream of it, live on that idea."

"Life should be great rather than long."

B. R. Ambedkar

"If you can't get a miracle, become one."

Nick Vujicic

"I am not afraid; I was born to do this."

Joan of Arc

"Nothing contributes so much to tranquillize the mind as a steady purpose."

Mary Shelley

"Any time you have an opportunity to make a difference in this world and you don't, then you are wasting your time on Earth."

Roberto Clemente

"I think most astronauts are not risk takers. We take calculated risks for something that we think is worthwhile."

Michael J. Massimino

"Sooner or later, you're gonna die, so how do you fill in the space between here and there? It's yours. Seize your space."

Margaret Atwood

"The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself – for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don't know what you're here to do, then just do some good."

"The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well."

Leo Rosten

"The purpose of our lives is to be happy."

"Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence."