True Purpose Quotes:

This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one.

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Inspirational, Life, Joy, Man And Superman, Joy Of Living

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

- Carl Jung

source: Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Letters”

topic: Life, Beautiful, Dream, Soul Life, Source Of Life

This is the true joy of life-the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown to the scrap-heap; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish clod of ailments and grievances.

- George Bernard Shaw

source: Man and Superman epistle dedicatory (1903)

topic: Motivational, Happiness, Laughter, Man And Superman, Joy Of Living

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

- Carl Jung

topic: Inspirational, Wise, Dream, Discovering Yourself, Self Discovery

What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, drama, and challenges, is a sense of purpose and meaning

- Barbara De Angelis

topic: Pain, Drama, Challenges, True Purpose, Your Purpose In Life

Human beings do not know their place and purpose. They have fallen from their true place, and lost their true purpose. They search everywhere for their place and purpose, with great anxiety. But they cannot find them because they are surrounded by darkness.

- Blaise Pascal

topic: Anxiety, Darkness, Purpose, True Purpose

Whatever you are struggling with, is a reminder for you to find your true purpose in this lifetime.

- Deepak Chopra

topic: Struggle, Purpose, Lifetime, True Purpose

A true desire is not to have but to be. We are whole creatures in potential, and the true purpose of desire is to unfold that wholeness, to become what we can be.

- Eric Butterworth

topic: Desire, Purpose, Creatures, True Purpose

The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us.

- Anna Brownell Jameson

topic: Education, Purpose, Cherish, True Purpose

The true purpose of education is to prepare young men and women for effective citizenship in a free form of government.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

source: Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1960). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953”, p.301, Best Books on

topic: Men, Purpose, Citizenship, Purpose Of Education, True Purpose

Each of us should make the most of our lives. We should give life our best-let us use our lives more wisely to chase our dreams, find our true purpose, and be as happy and successful as possible.

- Malcolm X

topic: Dream, Successful, Giving, True Purpose

Through fear of knowing who we really are we sidestep our own destiny, which leaves us hungry in a famine of our own making...we end up living numb, passionless lives, disconnected from our soul's true purpose. But when you have the courage to shape your life from the essence of who you are, you ignite, becoming truly alive.

- Dawna Markova

topic: Destiny, Essence, Knowing, Disconnected, True Purpose

Hand writing causes thinking - the repetition of writing your goal everyday will increase your awareness. The true purpose of a goal is to help you grow.

- Bob Proctor

source: FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Jan 12, 2013

topic: Writing, Thinking, Hands, True Purpose

We've bought into the idea that education is about training and "success," defined monetarily, rather than learning to think critically and challenge. We should not forget that the true purpose of education is to make minds, not careers. A culture that does not grasp the vital interplay between morality and power, which mistakes management techniques for wisdom, which fails to understand that the measure of a civilization is its compassion, not its speed or ability to consume, condemns itself to death.

- Chris Hedges

topic: Education, Mistake, Thinking, Purpose Of Education, True Purpose

Self-realization is, in fact, the only religion. For it is the true purpose of religion, no matter how people define their beliefs.

- Paramahansa Yogananda

source: Paramahansa Yogananda (1990). “The Essence of Self-Realization: The Wisdom of Paramhansa Yogananda”, Crystal Clarity Pubs

topic: Self, People, Religion, True Purpose

Humanity's true purpose is not to become stronger physically, it's to become more intelligent-from armies, who increasingly fight with specialized units rather than regiments and tanks, to garage owners, who use a lot more than jacks to fix your engine. As intelligence prevails throughout humanity, maybe there'll be fewer wars and better cars.

- Georges St-Pierre

topic: War, Army, Fighting, True Purpose

By making a soul connection, your true purpose in life will become the foundation of everything you do.

- Deepak Chopra

source: FaceBook post by Deepak Chopra from Jan 04, 2012

topic: Soul, Foundation, Connections, True Purpose

You will find your way. Don't be afraid of getting stuck in some of the necessary compromises. Learn everything you can from each experience, even if something seems irrelevant to your true purpose.

- Wendy Lustbader

topic: Way, Purpose, Compromise, True Purpose

The essence of Reality TV is all about drama. So, I think bringing pressure is healthy whether it's a professional chef or a domestic chef. Because the only way ever to really identify the true purpose of how good they are is submerging them under pressure. So I say it's no different than a live football game because it's about the intensity.

- Gordon Ramsay

source: Source: deadline.com

topic: Football, Drama, Reality, Reality Tv, True Purpose

When folk have set before them a true purpose and then pursue it unmoved with bravery and courage, when they withstand with a strong heart every trial which Heaven sends upon them, then one day at the last Almighty Providence will yet grant them the fruits of their struggle and of their sacrifices. For God has never abandoned any man upon this earth unless he has first abandoned himself.

- Adolf Hitler

topic: Strong, Struggle, Heart, Strong Heart, True Purpose

Surrender is not a weakness, or state of inaction, but rather a powerful state of pure energy; the energy of becoming your true purpose.

- Bryant H. McGill

topic: Powerful, Weakness, Energy, True Purpose

There is only one true purpose in life: to wake up from the delusion that you are separate from everything else.

- Chuck Hillig

topic: Life, Purpose, Wake Up, True Purpose

I’ve had to make the difficult decision to follow my intuition, and allow myself the space and time to explore my true purpose in life.

- Larry Sanders

source: "Why I Walked Away From the NBA (Video)" by Larry Sanders, www.theplayerstribune.com. February 25, 2015.

topic: Space, Decision, Intuition, Difficult Decisions, True Purpose

The man who works 52 weeks in the year does not do his best in any one week of the year, Daniel Guggenheim, onetime head of the greatest smelting and mining family in America, impressed upon me. Real recreation quickens aspiration. The true purpose of recreation is not merely to amuse, not merely to afford pleasure, not merely to kill time, but to increase our fitness, enhance our usefulness, spur achievement.

- B. C. Forbes

topic: Real, Men, Years, True Purpose

It is when we create things for God's sake that our work most clearly promotes His glory, rather than threatening to compete with it. Thus the true purpose of art is the same as the true purpose of anything: it is not for ourselves or for our own self-expression, but for the service of others and the glory of God.

- Philip Graham Ryken

topic: Art, Self, Expression, Purpose Of Art, True Purpose

The real joy in life comes from finding your true purpose and aligning it with what you do every single day.

- Tony Robbins

topic: Inspirational, Real, Joy, Real Joy, True Purpose

Discovery of purpose is a continuous activity, and revelation of it is an ongoing process... The most fortunate people on earth are those who have found a calling that is bigger than they are, a reason for living that moves them and fills their lives with constant passion, aliveness, and growth. Your soul's true purpose is to be the love that you are!

- Glenda Green

topic: Moving, Passion, Discovery, True Purpose

When a child keeps asking you to tell him/her a story, what they instinctively really want to know -- is their true purpose and mission in life. Sadly, this knowledge was never sought out by their parents, and explains why childrens books are a very hot and lucrative industry. Instead of telling your child the truth of our history and existence, you are conditioned by society to simply read your kid a fairytale.

- Suzy Kassem

topic: Children, Book, Kids, True Purpose, Childrens Book

Work may be your dominant thought, and joy an afterthought. But joy is your true purpose, and work the afterthought.

- Alan Cohen

topic: Joy, Purpose, May, Afterthought, True Purpose

Better service for the customer is for the good of the public, and this is the true purpose of enterprise.

- Konosuke Matsushita

topic: Purpose, Enterprise, True Purpose

The true purpose of a business is to create and keep a customer, not to make you money.

- Theodore Levitt

topic: Purpose, True Purpose

The true purpose of the strong is to promote greater strength in the weak, and not to keep the weak in that state where they are at the mercy of the strong.

- Christian D. Larson

topic: Strong, Purpose, Mercy, True Purpose

It cannot suffice to invent new machines, new regulations, new institutions. It is necessary to change and improve our understanding of the true purpose of what we are and what we do in the world. Only such a new understanding will allow us to develop new models of behavior, new scales of values and goals, and thereby invest the global regulations, treaties and institutions with a new spirit and meaning.

- Vaclav Havel

topic: Goal, Understanding, Purpose, Values And Goals, True Purpose

It's a matter of choosing what is most important to you and putting that first. Once you have recognized your true purpose in life, this becomes much easier.

- Clarence Clemons

topic: Important, Purpose, Matter, True Purpose

The true purpose of yoga is to discover that aspect of your being that can never be lost.

- Deepak Chopra

topic: Yoga, Purpose, Lost, True Purpose

The true purpose of life is the perfection of humanity through individual effort, under the guidance of God's inspiration. Real life is response to the best within us. To be alive only to appetite, pleasure, pride, money-making, and not to goodness and kindness, purity and love, poetry, music, flowers, stars, God and eternal hopes, is to deprive one's self of the real joy of living.

- David O. McKay

topic: Religious, Stars, Kindness, Joy Of Living, Real Joy

It is like the thirsty traveller who at first sincerely sought the water of knowledge, but who later, having found it plain perhaps, proceeded to temper his cup with the salt of doubt so that his thirst now becomes insatiable though he drinks incessantly, and that in thus drinking the water that cannot slake his thirst, he has forgotten the original and true purpose for which the water was sought.

- Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas

topic: Drinking, Water, Doubt, Incessantly, True Purpose

Maybe the true purpose of my life is for my body, my sensations and my thoughts to become writing, in other words, something intelligible and universal, causing my existence to merge into the lives and heads of other people.

- Annie Ernaux

source: Annie Ernaux (2011). “Happening”, p.92, Seven Stories Press

topic: Writing, People, Purpose, True Purpose

As long as it is admitted that the law may be diverted from its true purpose--that it may violate property instead of protecting it--then everyone will want to participate in making the law, either to protect himself against plunder or to use it for plunder.

- Frederic Bastiat

topic: Law, Long, Purpose, Plunder, True Purpose

At school, our classroom had a small rodent zoo consisting of two rabbits, three hamsters, a litter of baby gerbils and a guinea pig. At first, I’d thought the teacher was raising snack food, which impressed me, being the first sign of intelligence she’d shown. Soon, though, I’d figured out the animals’ true purpose and left them alone, though I would never understand the appeal of petting and coddling perfectly good food.

- Kelley Armstrong

source: Kelley Armstrong (2010). “Men of the Otherworld”, p.124, Vintage Canada

topic: Baby, Teacher, Zoos, Guinea Pigs, True Purpose

The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset.

- Liberty Hyde Bailey

topic: Educational, Sunset, Men, Purpose Of Education, Beautiful Sunset

The true purpose of Zen is to see things as they are, to observe things as they are, and to let everything go as it goes. Zen practice is to open up our small mind.

- Shunryu Suzuki

source: Shunryu Suzuki (2010). “Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind”, p.16, Shambhala Publications

topic: Practice, Mind, Purpose, Small Minds, True Purpose

For the first time in his life, he stopped worrying about results, and as a consequence the terms “success” and “failure” had suddenly lost their meaning for him. The true purpose of art was not to create beautiful objects, he discovered. It was a method of understanding, a way of penetrating the world and finding one’s place in it, and whatever aesthetic qualities an individual canvas might have were almost an incidental by-product of the effort to engage oneself in this struggle, to enter into the thick of things.

- Paul Auster

source: Paul Auster (2010). “Moon Palace: A Novel (Penguin Ink)”, p.131, Penguin

topic: Beautiful, Art, Struggle, Purpose Of Art, Beautiful Objects

Let us subdue the ravages of the baser-self, and aspire to the higher calling of exalting joy through compassion, for that is the one true purpose of humanity.

- Bryant H. McGill

topic: Compassion, Self, Joy, True Purpose, Higher Calling

Geology is rapidly taking its place as an introduction to the higher history of man. If the author has sought to exalt a favorite science, it has been with the desire that man-in whom geological history had its consummation, the prophecies of the successive ages their fulfilment-might better comprehend his own nobility and the true purpose of his existence.

- James Dwight Dana

source: James Dwight Dana (1869). “Manual of Geology: Treating of the Principles of the Science, with Special Reference to American Geological History, for the Use of Colleges, Academies, and Schools of Science”, p.9

topic: Men, Age, Desire, True Purpose

More and more people are beginning to feel that there must be another way of thinking, perceiving, and acting. And perhaps the beginning of another way of looking at the world is to re-evaluate all of our beliefs. It is, after all, our beliefs that determine what we are, experience, and expect. When we are willing to take a new look at our own beliefs, we then have an opportunity to begin rediscovering who and what we are and to redetermine our true purpose on Earth.

- Gerald Jampolsky

topic: Ignorance, Opportunity, Thinking, True Purpose, New Look

I wondered what else in my life I perceived to be wrong or difficult instead of exploring to understand the true purpose.

- Marlo Morgan

topic: Purpose, Difficult, Exploring, True Purpose

Art's true purpose is to be human as opposed to some rarefied activity set away from real life. I think art should help you to navigate the real challenges of being a human being.

- Martin Firrell

source: "The Question Mark Inside". Documentary, October 30, 2009.

topic: Art, Real, Thinking, Navigate, True Purpose