Purpose Quotes

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.

The purpose of all the major religious traditions is not to construct big temples on the outside, but to create temples of goodness and compassion inside, in our hearts.

Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.

Life should be great rather than long.

For an individual as well as for a society, there is a gulf between merely living and living worthily.

The necessary thing for anyone to be happy and contented as long as he lives is working for the ones who will come after him rather than working for himself... One can reach the true delight and happiness in the life only by working for the existence, honor, and happiness of the future generations.

Every generation has its defining works. More than 300,000 people worked to put a man on the moon - including that janitor. Millions of volunteers immunized children around the world against polio. Millions of more people built the Hoover dam and other great projects. These projects didn't just provide purpose for the people doing those jobs, they gave our whole country a sense of pride that we could do great things.

We should have a society that measures progress not just by economic metrics like GDP, but by how many of us have a role we find meaningful. We should explore ideas like universal basic income to make sure everyone has a cushion to try new ideas.

If you actually do something you love it's a lot easier and takes on a lot more purpose.

Change starts local. Even global changes start small - with people like us. In our generation, the struggle of whether we connect more, whether we achieve our biggest opportunities, comes down to this - your ability to build communities and create a world where every single person has a sense of purpose.

We think about having this global community, but the social fabric that we have is not one big community. It is millions of small communities and social structures and families that exist - that are really the things that we turn to for our personal and emotional and spiritual needs. And that gives us our sense of hope and purpose in life.

The Bhagavad Gita deals essentially with the spiritual foundation of human existence. It is a call of action to meet the obligations and duties of life; yet keeping in view the spiritual nature and grander purpose of the universe.

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

Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.

To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.

I still live, I still think: I still have to live, for I still have to think.

Man is the only animal that must be encouraged to live.

Man would sooner have the void for his purpose than be void of purpose.

No journey is too great, when one finds what one seeks.