Purposeful Quotes

“It is one thing to pray, but another thing to watch how God answers - and He does so effortlessly.”
― Gregory S. Works, Triumph: Life on the Other Side of Trials, Transplants, Transition and Transformation

“When you do what you love, the seemingly impossible becomes simply challenging, the laborious becomes purposeful resistance, the difficult loses its edge and is trampled by your progress.”
― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

“God had been orchestrating the events of my life behind the scenes for years, and I had no clue.”
― Gregory S. Works, Triumph: Life on the Other Side of Trials, Transplants, Transition and Transformation

“Two simple words that will take you far in life: thank you. Don’t underestimate their power.”
― Gregory S. Works, Triumph: Life on the Other Side of Trials, Transplants, Transition and Transformation

“Often a woman that doesn’t have any business being in a fight is there because their ego thinks it can mend what other people can’t. It’s either superiority or a second chance to heal a wound they have, by meddling on your battlefield.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Life is difficult.”
― M. Scott Peck, The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth

“Discover a purpose that gives you passion. Develop a plan that makes you persistent. Design a preparation and motivates you to optimize your potentials. Do it because you love it!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Dream big!: See your bigger picture!

“Have we ever thought that being lost is our destination?”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Take time daily to reflect on how much you have. It may not be all that you want but remember someone somewhere is dreaming to have what you have.”
― Germany Kent

“THE GOOD LIFE requires that we take pleasure in new things; A GOOD LIFE requires that we take pleasure in moments.

To enjoy THE GOOD LIFE we have to get ahead; to enjoy A GOOD LIFE we have to make the trip worthwhile.

THE GOOD LIFE is supported by feeding our pocketbooks; A GOOD LIFE is supported by feeding our souls.”
― Steve Goodier

“Stored personal memories along with handed down collective memories of stories, legends, and history allows us to collate our interactions with a physical and social world and develop a personal code of survival. In essence, we all become self-styled sages, creating our own book of wisdom based upon our studied observations and practical knowledge gleaned from living and learning. What we quickly discover is that no textbook exist how to conduct our life, because the world has yet to produce a perfect person – an ideal observer – whom is capable of handing down a concrete exemplar of epistemic virtues. We each draw upon the guiding knowledge, theories, and advice available for us in order to explore the paradoxes, ironies, inconsistencies, and the absurdities encountered while living in a supernatural world. We mold our personal collection of information into a practical practicum how to live and die. Each day we define and redefine who we are, determine how we will react today, and chart our quest into an uncertain future.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Underneath the chaos there stirs a great plan. And it will be birthed only if I give it permission to do so because I have exercised the faith that it’s there.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Purpose is the reason for your rare, precious existence that is useful to others.”
― Zach Mercurio, The Invisible Leader: Transform Your Life, Work, and Organization with the Power of Authentic Purpose

“Make your life a meaningful one”
― Sunday Adelaja

“The search for purpose and meaning is fundamentally human; the uniting trait of our species.”
― Zach Mercurio, The Invisible Leader: Transform Your Life, Work, and Organization with the Power of Authentic Purpose

“Do something purposeful and wise so that when God sent his blessings, they will fall on it.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, 101 Keys To Everyday Passion

“What you do will only ever be as good as WHY you do it.”
― Zach Mercurio, The Invisible Leader: Transform Your Life, Work, and Organization with the Power of Authentic Purpose

“The shortest distance from point A to point B is a straight line. But because going from point A to point A is even shorter, it’s never not rush hour.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Meaningful work gives life purpose and connects you to something bigger than yourself.”
― Germany Kent

“Might it be said that pain is the greatest tool imaginable that when cradled in the hands of the greatest God conceivable can do the greatest work thinkable in those whose lives are wracked with the greatest pain possible.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“We here meet a completely new conception of art; it is no longer a means towards an end, but an end in itself. At its origin, every form of spiritual endeavour is entirely determined by the useful purpose it serves, but such forms have the power and tendency to break free from their original purpose and make themselves independent; they become purposeless and to some extent autonomous. As soon as man feels secure and free from the immediate pressure of the struggle for life, he begins to play with the spiritual resources which he had originally developed as weapons and tools to aid him in his necessity. He begins enquiring into causes, seeking for explanations, researching into connections which have little or nothing to do with his struggle for life. Practical knowledge gives place to free enquiry, means for the mastery of nature become methods for discovering abstract truth. And thus art, originally a mere handmaid of magic and ritual, an instrument of propaganda and panegyric, a means to influence gods, spirits and men, becomes a pure, autonomous, ‘disinterested’ activity to some extent, practised for its own sake and for the beauty it reveals. In the same way, the commands and prohibitions, the duties and taboos, which were originally just expedients to make a common life in society possible, give rise to a doctrine of ethics that sets out to realize and perfect the moral personality. The Greeks were the first people to complete this transition from the instrumental to the ‘autonomous’ form of activity, whether in science, art or morality. Before them there was no free enquiry, no theoretical research, no rational knowledge and no art as we understand art—as an activity whose creations may always be considered and enjoyed as pure forms. This abandonment of the old view that art is only valuable and intelligible as a weapon in the struggle for life, in favour of a new attitude which treats it as mere play of line and colour, mere rhythm and harmony, mere imitation or interpretation of reality—this is the most tremendous change that has ever occurred in the whole history of art.”
― Arnold Hauser, The Social History of Art, Volume 1: From Prehistoric Times to the Middle Ages

“Endure to end, this is spirit of purposeful persistence.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“The purpose in our pain will always exceed the amount of pain that was necessary to deliver that purpose to us.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“There should never be a moment where there is an urgency to pray, for prayer should always be urgent.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Why are most people miserable? It’s because they have no purpose, no objective, no sacred cause. Therefore, they find life meaningless and pointless. You cannot succeed unless you are a 'Why' person, always asking why you are here and why existence is possible at all. One you understand ontology, everything flows from that.”
― Steve Madison, Ultrahuman

“Purpose does not reveal itself to those sitting safely at the starting block. In other words, you don’t plan your way into finding your purpose. You live into it.”
― Jacqueline Novogratz, Manifesto for a Moral Revolution: Practices to Build a Better World

“Right now I am making the choice to live out this day choosing to be intentional about not being unintentional.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Too many ideas have a voice. What most of them don’t have are legs.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“There is an empty space meant for someone to fill. Dots that only a particular individual can connect. Someone somewhere has a purpose, which they are yet to discover.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, These Words Burn Like Fire

“You have the determination to cultivate your existence.”
― Delphanie Frank