Purpose Quotes

One of the first things a relationship therapist learns is that couples argue to burn up energy that could be used for something else. In fact, arguments often serve the purpose of using up energy, so that the couple do not have to take the courageous, creative leap into an unknown they fear. Arguing serves the function of being a zone of familiarity into which you can retreat when you are afraid of making a creative breakthrough.

Gay Hendricks

Worry pretends to be necessary but serves no useful purpose.

Eckhart Tolle

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I think the show is amazing ñ I've watched it and really enjoyed it, and I love the idea of training with a purpose and learning from a professional. My only worry is that all my dancing is club dancing. I've never had to learn anything formal. I might not be able to pick up some of the styles or crack some of the steps

DJ Spoony

To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

A determinate purpose in life and a steady adhesion to it through all disadvantages, are indispensable conditions of success.

William Punshon

Thought allied fearlessly to purpose becomes creative force.

James Allen

There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

Napoleon Hill

Good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.

Charles Du Bos

It is essential that we enable young people to see themselves as participants in one of the most exciting eras in history, and to have a sense of purpose in relation to it.

Nelson Rockefeller

Many people flounder about in life because they do not have a purpose, an objective toward which to work.

George Halas

The sense of paralysis proceeds not so much out of the mammoth size of the problem but out of the puniness of the purpose.

Norman Cousins

Each of our acts makes a statement as to our purpose.

Leo Buscaglia

For an athlete to function properly, he must be intent. There has to be a definite purpose and goal if you are to progress. If you are not intent about what you are doing, you aren't able to resist the temptation to do something else that might be more fun at the moment.

John Wooden