Purpose

Each week I will post quotes from a different virtue. Last week’s virtue was mercy. This week’s virtue is purposefulness. Purposefulness is maintaining a specific ambition and determination. It is so important to live with purposefulness so we have a live of significance and meaning. What is your purpose?

10 Virtue Wednesday Quotes: Purposefulness

  1. “What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, drama, and challenges, is a sense of purpose and meaning” –Barbara De Angelis
  2. “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
  3. “At the core of life is a hard purposefulness, a determination to live” –Howard Thurman
  4. “When we accept any discipline for ourselves, we try to avoid everything except that which is necessary for our purpose; it is this purposefulness, which belongs to the adult mind, that we force upon school children. We say,Never keep your mind aler” — Rabindranath Tagore
  5. “We all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake” –Erich Fromm
  6. “Everything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed, the invisible intelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is also flowing through you” —Wayne Dyer
  7. “When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary projects, all your thoughts break their bonds; your mind trancends limitations; your consciousness expands in every direction; and you find yourself in a great new and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive and you discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be” –Patanjali
  8. “Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction” —John F. Kennedy
  9. “What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose” –Margaret Thatcher
  10. “The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire” –Marshall Foch
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