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

When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

This place where you are right now, God circled on a map for you.

Don’t be concerned with other people’s impressions of you. They are dazzled and deluded by appearances. Stick with your purpose. This alone will strengthen your will and give your life coherence.

A customer is the most important visitor on our premises. He is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him. He is not an interruption in our work. He is the purpose of it. He is not an outsider in our business. He is part of it. We are not doing him a favor by serving him. He is doing us a favor by giving us an opportunity to do so.

The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.

The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Loving others always costs us something and requires effort. And you have to decide to do it on purpose. You can’t wait for a feeling to motivate you.

It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

All I can do is be me, whoever that is.

The purpose of guilt is to bring us to the Lord, after that it has no purpose.

Leadership is about empathy. It is about having the ability to relate to and connect with people for the purpose of inspiring and empowering their lives.

In the end, when it’s over, all that matters is what you’ve done.

Authentic empowerment is the knowing that you are on purpose, doing God’s work, peacefully and harmoniously.

You were created on purpose for a purpose. There is a thirst and hunger in your heart that is real. Pay attention to it.

Welfare’s purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.

Visualization is daydreaming with a purpose.

In order to be in control of your life, you have to have a purpose-a productive purpose.

Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he sometimes thinks he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.

There’s no need to find our purpose in life, the nature gives us our purpose.

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.

Fashion has two purposes: comfort and love. Beauty comes when fashion succeeds.

Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.

The true purpose of education is to make minds, not careers.

War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.

Eventually, you will come to understand that love heals everything, and love is all there is. The journey may take many lifetimes, but you will complete it. It is impossible not to complete it. It is not a question of if but of when. Every situation you create serves this purpose. Every experience you encounter serves this purpose.

Everyone in their life has his own particular way of expressing life’s purpose – the lawyer his eloquence, the painter his palette, and the man of letters his pen from which the quick words of his story flow. I have my bicycle.

Prayer is asking for rain. Faith is carrying an umbrella. Faith is the inner sense of knowing that with divine order working on your side, all things will come together for your good. Faith is knowing that there is a divine plan and purpose for everything in life

All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.

Words can wound or heal. The purpose of speech must always be to create joy in the listener.

Enthusiasm is the parent of enterprise. Search and you will find that at the base and birth of every great business organization was an enthusiast, someone consumed with earnestness of purpose, with confidence in their powers, with faith in the worthwhileness of their endeavors.

In my opinion while lynchings were quite possibly the most heinous crimes ever witnessed in American history, they helped in bringing people together for a sole purpose. It was because of these lynchings that armed self-resistance was created. If white people knew black people were capable of fighting back then there was less of a chance that violence actually would break out.

When your vision is powerful enough, everything else falls into place: how you live your life, your workouts, what friends you choose to hang out with, how you eat, what you do for fun. Vision is purpose, and when your purpose is clear, so are your life choices. Vision creates faith and faith creates willpower. With faith, there is no anxiety, no doubt – just absolute confidence.

I know not if this earth on which I stand is the core of the universe or if it is but a speck of dust lost in eternity. I know not and I care not. For I know what happiness is possible to me on earth. And my happiness needs no higher aim to vindicate it. My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.