Find & Follow Your Why Quotes
A man can bear almost any hard road once he knows why he walks it. The right reason keeps him going long after motivation runs out, and no borrowed reason ever will. This Purpose path holds history's deepest quotes on purpose, passion, and calling. Scroll through and put them to work.
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“The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder.”
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“Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it.”
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“The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.”
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“Life Gains Reflect Life Aims.”
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“The ultimate purpose of life, mind, and human striving: to deploy energy and information to fight back the tide of entropy and carve out refuges of beneficial order.”
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“It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly.”
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“It doesn’t matter where you were born as much as it matters why you were born.”
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“Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life…”
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“The purpose of life is a life of purpose.”
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“The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.”
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“Without a purpose, life is motion without meaning, activity without direction, and events without reason.”
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“A man without aim is like a clock without hands, as useless if it goes as if it stands still.”
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“The tragedy of life is not death but what we let die inside of us while we live.”
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“Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.”
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“Man’s main concern is not to gain pleasure or to avoid pain but rather to see a meaning in his life.”
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“Don’t lament so much about how your career is going to turn out. You don’t have a career. You have a life.”
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“It isn’t normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.”
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“The greatest tragedy in life is not death, but a life without a purpose.”
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“Make your life a mission, not an intermission.”
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“The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost.”
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“Success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself.”
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“Pursue what is meaningful, not what is expedient.”
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“The purpose of your life is far greater than your own personal fulfillment.”
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“What you seek is seeking you.”
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“The purpose of life is to discover your gift; the work of life is to develop it; and the meaning of life is to give your gift away.”
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“Every calling is great when greatly pursued.”
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“Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.”
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“However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.”
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“The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.”
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“Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.”
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“Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him.”
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“When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.”
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“At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.”
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“To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.”
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“The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.”
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“What is the meaning of life? To be happy and useful.”
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“Vocation is where your greatest joy meets the world’s greatest need.”
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“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”
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“Follow your bliss.”
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“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.”
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“We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.”
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“I’ve come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that’s as unique as a fingerprint and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you.”
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“Certain things catch your eye, but pursue only those that capture the heart.”
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“It is not what a man does that determines whether his work is sacred or secular, it is why he does it.”
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“If you want to know where your heart is, look where your mind goes when it wanders.”
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“Purpose is a thing you build, not a thing you find.”
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“Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.”
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“The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.”
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“Where talent and the needs of the world cross, there lies your vocation.”
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“Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.”
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