(2054 quotes found)
“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.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“We have not come into the world to be numbered; we have been created for a purpose; for great things: to love and be loved.”
Mother Teresa of Calcutta
“A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.”
William Shedd
“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
“Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.”
Plato
“A faith to live by, a self to live with, and a purpose to live for.”
Bob Harrington
“We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love... and then we return home.”
Australian Aboriginal Proverb
“Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence”
Aristotle
“To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“It must be remembered that the purpose of education is not to fill the minds of students with facts…it is to teach them to think.”
Robert M. Hutchins
