your relevance in an environment may be determined by your acts there

As it is for a person, so it is for a company: having a sense of purpose is invigorating and motivating.

When students learn to wrestle with questions about purpose, audience, and genre, they develop a conceptual view of writing that has lifelong usefulness in any communicative context.

When God requires us to surrender one dream, it’s because He wants to hand us a bigger and better one.

When we are courageous enough to begin exploring the ‘Why’s” and the ‘Who’s’ of life, the ‘How’s’ and ‘What’s’ of life start to come into focus as well. “

You receive a great number of rewards as soon as you begin creating something you dream of deep within your soul.

Your passion sustains you. Your purpose is why you were created. Follow your passion but ensure you fulfill your purpose.

You can come to understand your purpose in life by slowing down and feeling your heart’s desires.

The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him,...

A theory of personal resurrection or reincarnation of the individual is untenable when we but pause to consider the magnitude of the idea. On the contrary, I must believe that rather than the survival of...

Suffering has a noble purpose.

Lineage, personality, and environment may shape you, but they do not define your full potential.

If there is no point in the universe that we discover by the methods of science, there is a point that we can give the universe by the way we live, by loving each other,...

Even if we have a reliable criterion for detecting design, and even if that criterion tells us that biological systems are designed, it seems that determining a biological system to be designed is akin to...

Your mistakes are to help you develop your purpose, not shame and guilt.

They got us right off the bat, and I’m sure their purpose was to loosen us up. I was disappointed we couldn’t put together a few more drives, because we were having a very, very...

Stop allowing your day-to-day life to be clouded by busy nothingness.

Healing is the gateway to peace and peace is the path to passion and purpose.

Life and death are something everyone will experience. It is living that only few will have embraced

The most fortunate of us, in our journey through life, frequently meet with calamities and misfortunes which may greatly afflict us; and, to fortify our minds against the attacks of these calamities and misfortunes should...

Butterfly was certainly a vehicle for me, and if it died, it still would have served its purpose, in spades. We never expected it to give me the visibility it has given me. It was...

Recognize that there’s something AMAZING about you. Everyone has something that comes very natural for them – natural gifts and talents. That gift/talent is that thing or things that comes easy for you, but hard...

The earth craves our replenishment. Let our gifts serve the purpose for which it was given to us.

Then she understood that what she needed was the motion to a purpose, no matter how small or in what form, the sense of an activity going step by step to some chosen end across...

Few people when meet first time they feel that meeting each other was the purpose of their life.

The “layman” need never think of his humbler task as being inferior to that of his minister. Let every man abide in the calling wherein he is called and his work will be as sacred...

They’re all equipped with multi-purpose rooms and gymnasiums, … If we had to utilize all the schools, we could hold 25,000 to 30,000 temporarily. That’s the worst-case scenario.

The accumulation of beliefs, knowledge and experiences contribute to our level of success and progress in life, however they also introduce the reality that we are all prejudiced. If not well managed, our personal prejudices...

What are the beliefs that give life, spirit and passion to your dream and which values will guide your decisions and actions for you to be fulfilled by your own success?

To succeed, with or without money, have deliberate plans to make success out of opportunity. If you are totally dependent on chance, then chances are that you will fail.

I’m not going to discuss the trip from a political point of view, because that’s not the purpose of the trip. She’s going because she’s concerned about the humanitarian crisis and wants to personally assess...

Once You Realize your Purpose in Life, do whatever it Takes within Good means in order to Fulfill your Destiny. This is Your Life, No One can Live it for You. The Journey is Yours.

Nothing is more creative… nor destructive… than a brilliant mind with a purpose.

Life cannot be just a linear line to death.

Properly directed thoughts result in properly directed actions. The only way to appropriately guide our thoughts is to know their foundation, our values.

You can’t live outside the manual of your manufacturer and perform the function He created you for. God’s word is His manual; obey and take the lead!

Our culture encourages us to plan every moment and fill our schedules with one activity and obligation after the next, with no time to just be. But the human body and mind require downtime to...

The moral purpose of every human life should be to attain happiness through service to humanity.

It’s more successful to try and fail, than fail to try

You become a leader when you believe in what you can do. The eagle believes it can soar; it doesn’t believe it can swim. The day the eagle will attempt to swim will be the...

Every ‘no’ is a ‘yes’ to something.

We are temporarily immortal, until we have fulfilled God’s plans for our lives…then we become temporarily mortal, waiting to become permanently immortal at last

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

If there were no night, we would not appreciate the day, nor could we see the stars and the vastness of the heavens. We must partake of the bitter with the sweet. There is a...

I walk with a purpose. And a limp. (The limp helps serve my purpose, which is to gain sympathy.)

the death of a purposeful person is not the death of purpose

The great mission of our day is not conquering the sea or space, disease or tyranny. The grand quest which calls to the hero in every one of us is to become fully alive–to stand...

For what reasons would you waste your time on earth?

[M]ay not literature (and, in particular, fiction) be considered a desperate and permanently thwarted effort to produce a unique form of expression? Something like a cry, perhaps, a cry that, somehow, inexplicably contains all the...

I am always on the edge of what I am doing. I do everything badly, sloppily, to get it over with so that I can get on to the next thing that I will do...