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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“Some pursue happiness - others create it.”
“Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.”
“Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.”
“Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.”
“Without work all life goes rotten, but when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.”
“The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.”
“To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.”
“Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.”
“When work is a pleasure, life is a joy. When work is a duty, life is slavery.”
“Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.”
“This is the real secret of life—to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. Instead of calling it work, realize it is play.”
“Perhaps this is how you know you’re doing the thing you’re intended to: No matter how slow or how slight your progress, you never feel that it’s a waste of time.”
“It is hard work to fill one’s life with meaning.”
“Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning. Once it does, it becomes the kind of thing that makes you grab your wife around the waist and dance a jig.”
“Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.”
“A man’s true delight is to do the things he was made for.”
“Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don’t need to escape from.”
“The only time a fellow really enjoys himself is when he’s got a good job and is doing it.”
“Not a day’s work in all my life. What I have done I have done, because it has been play.”
“To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury; and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable; and wealthy, not rich; to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly; to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart; to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never; in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common, this is to be my symphony.”
“This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.”
“I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live.”
“Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.”
“It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.”
“The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.”
“There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth: not going all the way, and not starting.”
“What you are for empowers you and what you are against weakens you.”
“Great minds have purposes, others have wishes.”
“Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes; lesser ones exist on wishes and inclinations.”
“Excellence is… caring more than others think is wise; risking more than others think is safe; dreaming more than others think is practical; expecting more than others think is possible.”
“The secret of success is constancy of purpose.”
“Life is a promise; fulfill it.”
“If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.”
“You were put on this earth to achieve your greatest self, to live out your purpose, and to do it courageously.”
“Believe in something bigger than yourself, and fight like hell for it”
“When you know your why, your what has more impact, because you are walking toward your purpose.”
“When you find your why, you find a way to make it happen.”
“Life is found in the dance between what you desire most and fear most.”
“Life is not about Certainty and Significance. Life is about Growth and Contribution.”
“Purpose. One word that drives me every day. Find yours and be willing to die for it.”
“When in doubt, always go back to your whys. Give yourself permission to fail.”
“When things get hard (which they will), your WHY needs to be strong enough to keep you going.”
“The world stands aside to let anyone pass who knows where he is going.”
“You lose your way when you lose your why.”
“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.”
“The only way to do great work is to love what you do”
“Do what you love and the money will follow.”
“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”
“Catch on fire with enthusiasm and people will come from miles to watch you burn.”
“Truly creative people care a little about what they have done, and a lot about what they are doing. Their driving focus is the life force that surges in them now.”
