Purpose Quotes - Page 25

God is not a supporting actor in our life movie. We exist for his purposes, not the other way around.

The good Lord didn't create anything without a purpose, but the fly comes close.

I've always asked myself since I was young, what is my duty on this planet? What am I there for? Just to hang around? Everybody must have some purpose.

There is, inside all our heads, the ego’s rabid attack dog. It is purely vicious toward others and toward ourselves as well. Learning to control that dog, and ultimately to end its life, is the process and purpose of enlightened relationships.

Never act without purpose and resolve, or without the means to finish the job.

Everything has a purpose. And that purpose has a story that goes along with it. It just depends on what your passion is.

The fruit and the purpose of prayer is to be oned with and like God in all things.

Somehow I am necessary for His purposes, as necessary in my place as an Archangel in his.

The purpose of leadership is not to make the present bearable. The purpose of leadership is to make the future possible.

The purpose of the pistol is to stop a fight that somebody else has started, almost always at very short range.

We are no longer in a state of growth; we are in a state of excess. We are living in a society of excrescence. The boil is growing out of control, recklessly at cross purposes with itself, its impacts multiplying as the causes disintegrate.

The Executive is charged officially in the Departments under it with the disbursement of the public money, and is responsible for the faithful application of it to the purposes for which it is raised. The Legislature is the watchful guardian over the public purse. It is its duty to see that the disbursement has been honestly made.

Pettiness is the tendency of people without large purposes.

We have to have a purpose greater than the endless struggle to satisfy personal desires.

Love without action is meaningless and action without love is irrelevant.

God created me to be an individual. And I am a Chicago dude that grew up the way I grew up and was named Rashid and was given a certain purpose and mission. So, I am rare for those reasons.

He particularly liked about making students safe for ideas, not ideas safe for students.

The desire to sacrifice an entire lifetime to the noblest of ideals serves no purpose if one works alone.

That's the purpose of stress. It's a friend. It's an alarm clock, built in to let you know that it's time to do The Work.

I consider discipline indispensable, but it must be inner discipline, motivated by a common purpose and a strong feeling of comradeship.

Rom. 8:29 tells us what our purpose is - to conform to the image of Jesus Christ, and that singularly helps me keep a focus. That's really what I'm called to do, and I should be gradually growing and changing. He should be increasing, and I should be decreasing.

What I really learned was that life is a gift and our only purpose is to be who we are. We all make it so complicated, and try to find our purpose, I learned that all I have to do is be as me as I can be.

The purpose of a team is not goal attainment but goal alignment.

My platform might be a little bigger than someone else's, but everyone has a purpose. For me, that purpose in my life right now is soccer. There's a cool, personal testimony that goes along with it.

God has given each of us our "marching order." Our purpose here on Earth is to find those orders and carry them out. Those orders acknowledge our special gifts.