Purpose Quotes - Page 54

To ‘let go’ sometimes makes us feel like losers because it means giving up what truly we felt we had a right to. But true strength lies in resisting the urge to hold onto things and people that bring us down.

Planning gives you the opportunity to identify the tasks that will add the most value to attaining your outcomes.

Joblessness gives you access to a vast number of resources

Every individual ought to travel on his or her own destiny path.

Teach them to understand biblical principles before converting them

I believe that our sole responsibility is to reach out, uplift one another and lighten one another's burdens. If we are not doing this, then we are yet to start living. What a man owes his fellow is a transforming encounter.

Everything has its own time

Bridges take people across rivers. Leaders take people across ignorance. With a leader, the destination of a journey is sure.

There is a great difference between one idler and another idler. There is someone who is an idler out of laziness and lack of character, owing to the baseness of his nature. If you like, you may take me for one of those. Then there is the other kind of idler, the idler despite himself, who is inwardly consumed by a great longing for action who does nothing because his hands are tied, because he is, so to speak, imprisoned somewhere, because he lacks what he needs to be productive, because disastrous circumstances have brought him forcibly to this end. Such a one does not always know what he can do, but he nevertheless instinctively feels, I am good for something! My existence is not without reason! I know that I could be a quite a different person! How can I be of use, how can I be of service? There is something inside me, but what can it be? He is quite another idler. If you like you may take me for one of those.

Time is God’s given asset to humans

What seems to be a chaotic life is just a systematic, engineered Life driven for a purpose!!! The day you find peace in chaos, the game changes!

You cannot become great by working for salary.

Can you, at a minimum, objectively step back—throw out the stereotypes, ditch the conformity, set aside the religion—and ask yourself, why? Why Jesus?

So you believe in fate,” I say.Dr. Mann pauses thoughtfully before answering. “I believe each of us was uniquely created for a specific purpose designed by the Creator, and that, because of that, there are certain things in our lives that we are destined by Him to do. The rest, I think, is soft clay: left entirely to the defining influences of choice, chance, and circumstance. And luck! Don’t forget luck.

I am not wise enough to know if there is ever purpose in tragedy, if there is ever virtue in resisting it. If it cannot be overcome, then grief has beaten you, and you are right to say so.

Everyone is a business person. You must be in the business of managing your time. Managing your time means managing your life. Good time managers are good life managers, and vice versa.

You determine the destiny of the nation, this is your time

People who have become great like Benjamin Franklin only became great because they learned how to invest time into improving whatever it is they were called to do..

Most of us try to just live with what society tells us is important

Planning your life creates within you a feeling of control which produces self-confidence, self-responsibility and self-assurance.

I didn't want to sing.I wanted to be music.

Work, and not wishing, is what brings motion and results from your vision. Don’t be lazy. Try and try again, learn and practice, review and refine, then go back to implement again.

All our works must pass through fire. Some of them will be burnt out and those that are left will be our good and useful works for the Kingdom of God

Don’t just save yourself alone, also bring salvation the people around you

Life is your sacred journey. You ought to enjoy every moment.

The results you produce open doors for greater opportunities

As you grow and develop your talent and skill – you must begin to create a demand for what you possess as a personal brand.

It is only when you study and understand people that you begin to see God’s principles in them

Everyone plays a purpose, even fathers who lie to you or leave you behind. Time takes care of all that pain so if someone derails you, it'll be okay eventually.

I envision a world in which the vast majority of us are actively striving toward our potential as human beings by spending our lives serving others through mediums we are most passionate.

You should actually be fighting to have a time of solitude because through it, you can make yourself great.

It is either you are converting time into a product or into a value chain or you are killing, wasting and throwing away your life.

In 1988, a cave explorer named Véronique Le Guen volunteered for an extreme experiment: to live alone in an underground cavern in southern France without a clock for one hundred and eleven days, monitored by scientists who wished to study the human body's natural rhythms in the absence of time cues. For a while, she settled into a pattern of thirty hours awake and twenty hours asleep. She described herself as being "psychologically completely out of phase, where I no longer know what my values are or what is my purpose in life."When she returned to society, her husband later noted, she seemed to have an emptiness inside her that she was unable to fully express. "While I was alone in my cave I was my own judge," she said. "You are your own most severe judge. You must never lie or all is lost. The strongest sentiment I brought out of the cave is that in my life I will never tolerate lying." A little more than a year later, Le Guen swallowed an overdose of barbiturates and lay down in her car in Paris, a suicide at age thirty-three.

The time we are living in is a significant time

The foundation of all personal development, actually, is self-acceptance and self-love.

We should see our calling as our life’s major assignment

Think of the self that God has given as an acorn. It is a marvelous little thing, a perfect shape, perfectly designed for its purpose, perfectly functional. Think of the grand glory of an oak tree. God’s intention when He made the acorn was the oak tree. His intention for us is ‘… the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ.’ Many deaths must go into our reaching that measure, many letting-goes. When you look at the oak tree, you don’t feel that the loss’ of the acorn is a very great loss. The more you perceive God’s purpose in your life, the less terrible the losses seem.

God's word will produce with your level of understanding. The much you can understand it, the more wisdom you are privileged to have.

You have to be passionately curious in life.

What will support you consists in your gift, so until you find yourself you will be poor

People who understands how to convert their time into useful products do not complain of boredom.

I made my name”. What does this mean? It means you didn’t stop just because the way was hard, rather you found solutions to problems

Without understanding, there is no life. Either you act, out of understanding or act to develop understanding out of it.

When you turn your dreams on there is no off switch.

It is our duty as believers to bring joy and fortune to the less privileged among us

When a child is immersed in a certain environment, his thinking is formed by roles models of behavior demonstrated by parents in the family who have had a great influence on the formation of thinking of the child

Bring relevance to people and help them achieve their goals

In such a person, sadness breeds purpose; finding inspiration in the darkness and often times, I believe, they will impress a hell onto their own lives in order to re-create it, that others might suffer the experience from the comfort of their armchairs. - Quote from Her Past's Present.

No one can replace you to do what you are destined to do until you totally fail it and leave an empty gap that God will fill.

Don't be discouraged when people leave your life because you can still fulfill your God given purpose without them. Remember that your destiny is not tied to any human being, but in line with God's purpose.

Being an atheist means you have to realise that when you die, that really is it. You've got to make the most of what you've got here and spread as much influence as you can. I believe that you only live through the influence that you spread, whether that means having a kid or making music....I don't believe in heaven or hell, I don't really believe in that version.

You have to know what you want to ever be able to have it.

Slipping into bad attitudes and habits is like a beautiful queen growing older and uglier compared to the defined mission and personal standards. Time and again everyone who is serious about making their success more deliberate needs to stop by the mirror in their own mind and ask, “Mirror, mirror in my mind, am I still on course to succeed in life?

One does not have to be a philosopher to be a successful artist, but he does have to be an artist to be a successful philosopher. His nature is to view the world in an unpredictable albeit useful light.

You can be the most productive person in your area of your calling if you can just isolate yourself and learn to convert your time into products.

Poverty might make you obscure, but if you continue churning out wisdom to solve more problems and challenges, you will neither remain poor nor die in obscurity.

God does not just save you for your personal interest but for you to become a channel for the salvation of others

The true parents of creativity are curiosity and necessity.

The power we were given to think, is to enable us to live better lives, not fool more people.

You can discover your calling through the eyes of others