Purpose Quotes

“Owning a business is NOT about working your ass off for the sake of trying to squeeze out a living. It is NOT about making tons of money at the expense of losing tons of life. It IS about maximizing life, bettering your life and the lives of others, which, not so ironically, fattens your purse.” ~ Mike Michalowicz

“God didn’t have time to make a nobody, only a somebody. I belive that each of us has God-given talents within us waiting to be brought to fruition.” ~ Mary Kay Ash

“Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you’re alive, it isn’t.” ~ Lauren Bacall

“Think outside of the box, create your own path in life. You laugh at me because I am different; I laugh because you are all the same.” ~ Daniel Knode

“There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.” ~ Theodore Roosevelt

“The job is not your work; what you do with your heart and soul is the work.” ~ Seth Godin, Linchpin

“I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life; I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.” ~ Theodore Roosevelt

We have no room for sour-faced folk.

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“There are two things that I want you to make up your minds to: first, that you are going to have a good time as long as you live – I have no use for the sour-faced man – and next, that you are going to do something worthwhile, that you are going to work hard and do the things you set out to do.” ~ Theodore Roosevelt

“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi

“The more you give, the more you live.” ~ Bob Dedman

“Brotherhood starts the day we walk off the street and into the training hall. There, regardless of who we are, we are all the same. We leave our differences at the door and we unite for one purpose, to help ourselves and each other become the best we can be” ~ Master Karen Eden

“The more strongly you feel about what you do the more likely you are to push yourself to be good at it. Find a way to make a success of it. If you organize your life around your passion, you can turn your passion into your story and then your story into something bigger – something that matters.” ~ Blake Mycoskie (Founder of TOMS)

“To laugh often and love much, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to give one’s self … this is to have succeeded.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.” ~ Steve Jobs

“Almost everything–all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure–these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.” ~ Steve Jobs

“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do.” ~ Steve Jobs

“There is more to success than reaching goals. Even a vast fortune can leave you feeling alone, unfulfilled and spiritually poor. Success must also include a joyful appreciation of living an authentic joy that pulls us toward the next episode of our life’s purpose.” ~ Steve Brunkhorst

“Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.” ~ Muhammad Ali

“Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life… Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated. Thus, everyone’s task is as unique as is his specific opportunity to implement it.” ~ Viktor Frankl