Greater Purpose Quotes

• No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

  Denis Waitley

  Motivational, Teamwork, Men

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• Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  "Partying for the Planet and Dancing With God (at Burning Man)" by Leah Lamb, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 24, 2012.

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• The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Motivational, Happiness, Success

  Benjamin Disraeli, Edmund Gosse, Robert Arnot (1904). “The works of Benjamin Disraeli, earl of Beaconsfield: embracing novels, romances, plays, poems, biography, short stories and great speeches”

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• The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Inspirational, Life, Greatness

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• Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.

  W. Clement Stone

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude". Book by W. Clement Stone and Napoleon Hill (Chapter 2: You Can Change Your World), 1960.

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• The purpose of life is not to be happy, the purpose of life is to matter.

  Leo Rosten

  Kindness, Thoughtful, Purpose

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• When I got into film school, it really formed a sense of who I am and my sense of feeling like an outsider. If there was some greater purpose to do this, it would be so that future generations - my kids or my sister's kids - would grow up seeing themselves in their media culture in a way that I didn't. If The Mindy Project or Master of None were on when I was growing up, I wonder if I would be interested in doing this at all

  Meera Menon

  Growing Up, School, Kids

  "Meera Menon and the Women of Wall Street". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 29, 2016.

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• For me, the greater purpose of the story is just to illuminate some pattern of human truth.

  Will Smith

  Purpose, Stories, Patterns

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• Do not wait another day to become fully engaged in your life, to learn to love and to forgive, and to live with greater purpose & meaning.

  Debbie Ford

  Waiting, Forgiving, Purpose

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• There can be no reproach to pain unless we assume human dignity, there is no reason for restraints on pleasure unless we assume human worth, there is no legitimacy to monotony unless we assume a greater purpose to life, there is no purpose to life unless we assume design, death has no significance unless we seek what is everlasting.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Pain, Design, Purpose

  FaceBook post by Ravi Zacharias from Oct 16, 2016

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• Education provides you a profession. But not vocation. You do it only because you need to work to earn money to buy your food, buy your clothes, pay the bills. Our life has a greater meaning, and a greater purpose.

  Satish Kumar

  Clothes, Needs, Purpose

  "An Interview with Satish Kumar at the New Story Summit". Kosmos Interview, www.kosmosjournal.org. November 18, 2014.

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• Thomas Jefferson understood the greater purpose of the liberty that our Founding Fathers sought during the creation of our Nation. Although it was against the British that the colonists fought for political rights, the true source of the rights of man was clearly stated in the Declaration of Independence. Jefferson wrote that all humans are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights . . . . It was self-evident to him that denying these rights was wrong and that he and others must struggle to win what was theirs.

  William J. Clinton

  Father, Struggle, Winning

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• There's no greater purpose than service to others.

  Nick Nolte

  Purpose, Peaceful Warrior, Service To Others

  "Fictional character: Socrates". "Peaceful Warrior", www.imdb.com. 2006.

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• I think it's important to have a greater purpose behind modeling. Don't model just because you're pretty and you want to make money. Every girl wants that. You have to stand out from everyone else and on those really hard days, that is really the only thing that will keep you going.

  Whitney Thompson

  Girl, Thinking, Important

  Source: www.refinery29.com

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• In performance, we have a greater purpose. The greater purpose is that we're communing together, and we want this moment to be really special for all of us. Because otherwise, why bother to have come at all? It's not about proving anything. It's about sharing something.

  Yo-Yo Ma

  Together, Special, Want

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• Strength has a greater purpose.

  Pavel Tsatsouline

  Purpose, Greater

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• The strongest democracies flourish from frequent and lively debate, but they endure when people of every background and belief find a way to set aside smaller differences in service of a greater purpose.

  Barack Obama

  Differences, People, Democracy

  First Presidential Prime Time Press Conference, delivered 9 February 2009

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• I pray to be used in service to a greater purpose higher than my own

  Oprah Winfrey

  Purpose, Praying, Used

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