Purpose Quotes - Page 24

• The purpose of direct action is to create a situation so crisis-packed that it will inevitably open the door to negotiation.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Doors, Direct Action

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.89, Beacon Press

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• We each were endowed at birth with a unique gift, something we were born to do or become that no one else can achieve the way we can. God's purpose is that we bear abundant fruit and release the blessings of our gift and potential to the world.

  Myles Munroe

  Relationship, Marriage, Blessing

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• The self-discovery of your inherent leadership potential and an understanding of who you are and what you are meant to be are the keys to fulfilling your purpose from existence as a leader.

  Myles Munroe

  Leadership, Discovery, Self

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• When you don't give yourself the time and care you need, your body rebels in the form of sickness and exhaustion

  Oprah Winfrey

  Love, Life, Giving

  Oprah Winfrey (2014). “What I Know for Sure”, p.100, Pan Macmillan

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• Be loving to yourself and others will see that love reciprocated. This rule works every time

  Oprah Winfrey

  Love, Life, Love Life

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• I make sure to use my life for that which can be of goodwill. It has fortified me spiritually and emotionally

  Oprah Winfrey

  Love, Life, Use

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• Your journey begins with a choice to get up, step out, and live fully

  Oprah Winfrey

  Love, Life, Journey

  Oprah Winfrey (2014). “What I Know for Sure”, p.13, Pan Macmillan

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• Wherever you are in life, look at your beliefs. They put you there

  Oprah Winfrey

  Love, Life, Looks

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• If this was the last day of your life, would you spend it the way you're spending today?

  Oprah Winfrey

  Love, Life, Today

  Oprah Winfrey (2014). “What I Know For Sure”, p.13, Macmillan

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• You have the RIGHT to change your mind

  Oprah Winfrey

  Love, Life, Mind

  Twitter post from Mar 7, 2014

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• I've always believed free will is a birthright. God even allows us to choose whether to be led by the divine order

  Oprah Winfrey

  Love, Life, Divine Order

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• Your life's work is to find your life's work-and then to exercise the discipline, tenacity, and hard work it takes to pursue it

  Oprah Winfrey

  Love, Life, Hard Work

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• Failure is just a way for our lives to show us we're moving in the wrong direction, that we should try something different

  Oprah Winfrey

  Love, Life, Moving

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• I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it

  Oprah Winfrey

  Love, Life, Trying

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• All trials force the question, Who are you really? And you must trust yourself to answer

  Oprah Winfrey

  Love, Life, Trials

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• I started out giving thanks for small things, and the more thankful I became, the more my bounty increased

  Oprah Winfrey

  Love, Life, Giving

  Oprah Winfrey (2014). “What I Know For Sure”, p.84, Macmillan

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• Just being born makes you worthy enough to be here

  Oprah Winfrey

  Love, Life, Just Being

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• You are here to do something you are uniquely created for. No one else can do it like you can, that's why you're here

  Oprah Winfrey

  Love, Life, Like You

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• What you're thinking, what you're saying, what you're doing, is having an impact on you and the people around you

  Oprah Winfrey

  Love, Life, Thinking

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• If things go wrong and you hit a dead end-as you will-it's just life's way of saying it's time to change course

  Oprah Winfrey

  Love, Life, Way

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• Failures can be God's little whispers (or) a full earthquake in our lives because we didn't listen to the whispers

  Oprah Winfrey

  Love, Life, Earthquakes

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• The will of God prevails. In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be, wrong. God cannot be for and against the same thing at the same time. In the present civil war it is quite possible that God's purpose is something different from the purpose of either party - and yet the human instrumentalities, working just as they do, are of the best adaptation to effect His purpose.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Time, War, Party

  "Meditation on the DivineWill," ca. 2 Sept. 1862

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• The natural impulse of men is to follow and whoever has the strongest sense of purpose will always dominate.

  Robert Harris

  Men, Natural, Impulse

  Robert Harris (2003). “Pompeii”, Vintage

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• He who sincerely seeks his real purpose in life is himself sought by that purpose. As he concentrates on that search a light begins to clear his confusion, call it revelation, call it inspiration, call it what you will. It is mistrust that misleads. Sincerity leads straight to the goal.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Real, Inspiration, Light

  Hazrat Inayat Khan (1973). “The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan: The Way of Illumination”, p.26, Library of Alexandria

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• THE PATH OF PEACE is exceedingly vast, reflecting the grand design of the hidden and manifest worlds. A warrior is a living shrine of the divine, one who serves that grand purpose.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Warrior, Design, Shrines

  Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.73, Shambhala Publications

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