Live With Purpose Quotes

• If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Walden ch. 18 (1854)

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• If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Oct 06, 2015

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• He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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  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

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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  The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.

  Pablo Picasso

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

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• Find a purpose in life so big it will challenge every capacity to be at your best.

  David O. McKay

  Inspirational, Positive, Challenges

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• The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Life, Fear

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.12, Westminster John Knox Press

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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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• Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it.

  James Allen

  Commitment, Purpose, Literature

  James Allen (2016). “The James Allen Companion”, p.84, Simon and Schuster

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• We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Life, Motivational, Positive

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "P.S. I Love You: When Mom Wrote, She Always Saved the Best for Last". Book by H. Jackson Brown, Jr., March 1, 1991.

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• We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives. If you don't know where you're aiming, you don't have a goal. My goal is to live my life in such a way that when I die, someone can say, she cared.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Inspirational, Life, Ambition

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• The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do.

  Pablo Casals

  Life, Purpose, Firsts

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Life, Summer

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• To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Success

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• Ask yourself what makes you come alive.

  Howard Thurman

  Inspirational Life, Self Esteem, Live Life

  "Oprah Gives Inspiring Commencement Speech to Harvard" by Derrick Bryson Taylor, www.essence.com. May, 31, 2013.

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• It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living, I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing.

  Oriah Dreamer

  Life, Dream, Heart

  "The invitation". Book by Oriah Mountain Dreamer, 1999.

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• The harder I work the more I live.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Work, Good Luck, True Joy

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• As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Life, Trust

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• I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Nike Culture : The Sign of the Swoosh". Book by Robert Goldman, Stephen Papson (p. 49), 1998.

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  The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Lying, Alive, Criminal Mind

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2011). “The Brothers Karamazov”, p.440, Bantam Classics

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• My goal in life is to live my life in such a way that when I die, someone can say, she cared

  Mary Kay Ash

  Goal, Purpose, Way

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• It's not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Inspiring, Helping Others, Purpose

  "Love". Book by Leo Buscaglia, 1972.

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• The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Peace, Thoughtful

  Mahatma Gandhi, Anand T. Hingorani, Ganga Anand Hingorani (1985). “The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts”

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