Quotes & Sayings About Purposeful Living

You cannot receive fulfillment unless you find your place. — Bidemi Mark-Mordi

Though sometimes you must have an unstoppable courage, it must be with a well defined humility for purposeful living! Humility is not just good for our lives; it also greatly saves our lives, integrity and true purpose! Don't just think you are on top of the world just because you stand on the tallest building. When the building collapses, you may be far worse than they that walk besides the building who can run away upon seeing it collapsing! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

A person must claim the meaning behind his or her existence. How we live is our final testament to what we believed in and our journey through the corridor of time determines our decisive character. — Kilroy J. Oldster

Your experiences, past, gifts and abilities are tools for purposeful living. Harness them and destiny shows up! — Bidemi Mark-Mordi

You dare travel on the own sacred road. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The European style of living is seductive: fewer hours worked, more hours at the cafe, less concern over self-betterment. But that style of living does not produce a purposeful life. — Ben Shapiro

Life is difficult. — M. Scott Peck

Avoid fragmentation: Find your focus and seek simplicity. Purposeful living calls for elegant efficiency and economy of effort-expanding the minimum time and energy necessary to achieve desired goals. — Dan Millman

In walking or working your dream, arriving is a bad thing, because arriving makes you do things you said you wouldn't do when you started. — Bidemi Mark-Mordi

A purpose tells us that we are far more than just the sum total of our existence because we are called to do something in an existence that far exceeds us. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

You don't live until you begin to live for keeping — Sunday Adelaja

It is one thing to Exist and quite another to Live. The difference between the two is the foundation of purpose. — Michael Quansah

Her plain gray suit was like a thin coating of metal over a slender body against the spread of sun-flooded space and sky. Her posture had the lightness and unselfconscious precision of an arrogantly pure self-confidence. She was watching the work, her glance intent and purposeful, the glance of competence enjoying its own function. She looked as if this were her place, her moment and her world, she looked as if enjoyment were her natural state, her face was the living form of an active, living intelligence ... — Ayn Rand

We aim for the higher calling of God. — Lailah Gifty Akita

You may not have the control to lengthen your life, but you can do much to deepen it. — Frank Sonnenberg

The best life is one that is lived with direction and purpose. — Bidemi Mark-Mordi

The key to living a purposeful life lies in identifying how best you can be a vehicle for God's divine love and light. — Rebecca Rosen

You see, Adrian, we do many things. We assign meaning to some, and think of others as lacking it. But who's to tell when we're right - and when we're wrong? — Mani S. Sivasubramanian

Living a fruitful and purposeful life has eternal blessings — Sunday Adelaja

Your actions now, define possibilities. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Life never ceases having a meaning for a humble person. The freedom of choice, the sovereignty that we hold over our own souls, enables a person to discover the meaning of his or her own life every day, even in suffering or death. — Kilroy J. Oldster

Positive goals lead to positive actions for purposeful life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Despite the personalization of life's events, all people largely experience the same general transformative stages of life and eventually we all encounter a row of similar tragedies. We do not experience identical lives or exemplify replicable personalities. Every person is a receptacle whom is capable of experiencing the full gamut of the entire human condition. Our lives act as a period of apprenticeship, which we devote laboring to discover the truths that we can live by. — Kilroy J. Oldster

Don't give up on yourself and your dreams. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Don't ever sleep forever and don't forever be at rest and leave the rest whilst you live though the journey of life can sometimes be so arduous! If you can't run, crawl! If you do not want to crawl, walk! If you think walking will waste your time, gallop and if galloping is below your strength and true standard, dare to speed unrelentingly and dare to overcome all challenges! You shall always sleep or slumber only to wake up one day and realize the wide distance between you and they that crawled each second of time to the final destination of purposeful life and living unceasingly! Wake up each day and do something in the day! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

I seek to sensitize and clarify the essential elements of my soul. I will leave striving for the flags of fame and fortune behind and go where the soul beckons without fearing the decisive outcome. I will travel in a world without boundaries and embrace danger and awe. I will stand as a witness to comedy, beauty, and tragedy and apply the principles of artistic and ascetic forms of awareness to overcome the inherent frustration of enduring a fundamentally painful human existence. — Kilroy J. Oldster

Once you become delivered, you have to find your calling and how to discover God's purpose for your life — Sunday Adelaja

The pursuit of passion is a decisive purposeful living. — Lailah Gifty Akita

May God grant us grace for our daily work. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Make your life a meaningful one — Sunday Adelaja

Purposefully living a life that glorifies the Kingdom is the essence of our creation — Sunday Adelaja

Occupy your thoughts with purpose and you will be so busy pursuing a meaningful future there will be no time for doubt, chaos and disappointment. — Carlos Wallace

One redeeming feature of human beings is that we must work to sustain our survival. Working attaches people to reality; it creates a survival identity, and provides structure to our life. Work provides a person with a temporary purpose and an accompanying sense of security that there is a fitting place in this world for a person of their temperament and talent. — Kilroy J. Oldster

You must dare greatly. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Excuses; the great chains that entangle purposeful life to the pillar of unpurposeful living — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

I will enthusiastically accomplish the task. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The interesting (and sometimes scary) thing about living a purposeful life is you begin to realize that, in a very real way, your life is not your own. You're not here to just get all the good stuff for yourself - and maybe your loved ones - so you can live a happy, pleasure-filled existence. You are part of a larger organism, a larger system, and all the good that you receive, all the talent you possess, everything that you have, is not for your benefit only - but for the benefit of the whole system. And the more you surrender to this, the more the universe will pour its bounty through you so you can be a bigger giver. — Derek Rydall

We may regard certain days as free days. Free days are however fee days. We will pay later — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

If you are to be, you must begin by assuming responsibility. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

You don't need to be anywhere; God can take you where you have to be. — Lailah Gifty Akita

When common objects in this way be come charged with the suggestion of horror, they stimulate the imagination far more than things of unusual appearance; and these bushes, crowding huddled about us, assumed for me in the darkness a bizarre grotesquerie of appearance that lent to them somehow the aspect of purposeful and living creatures. Their very ordinariness, I felt, masked what was malignant and hostile to us. — Algernon Blackwood

The first key to a purposeful living is to accept the responsibility of your mission. When you agree "yes" to the calling, then you ask God "why?". — Israelmore Ayivor

A loud, purposeful knock on the front door froze him in place with his fist over the fabric.
"Hey, dude, it's me. I brought you all four Bloodsport movies. Open up!"
Jason's voice filtered past the front door, and he and Violet flew apart like teenagers at a party raid.
No way. This wasn't happening. He had not just gotten cock-blocked by his best friend and partner, AKA the only living relative of the woman he'd very nearly stripped naked in his front hallway. — Kimberly Kincaid

A noble journey through the travails of time calls for a person to disregard conventional social, cultural, and moral contexts and strive to cleave a personal meaning that guides their existence. — Kilroy J. Oldster

A dream isn't worth the sleep, unless you are wide awake when dreaming it. — Bidemi Mark-Mordi

It is said that the things that annoy us the most are the things that we are probably called to resolve. — Bidemi Mark-Mordi

Make your holidays a purposeful time. — Sunday Adelaja

Man is weak. Purpose makes him strong. — Raheel Farooq

Seize every opportunity to fulfill your calling. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Excuses are another way of saying "I don't want to". Purpose doesn't happen without resistance. Push through the barrier. — Bidemi Mark-Mordi

Our legacy is not found in all the 'stuff' we've accumulated on our life's journey. It's written in the memories of those whose lives we've touched along the way. — Justin Young

To reclaim our natural power and this birthright of real magic, we must get naked and face ourselves.

The truth of Who You Really Are is vast. It is genius. It crackles with electricity and sensuality and other forbidden, dangerous things. You have longed for it all your life. You catch glimpses of it from the corner of your eye. A riff of music reminds you, a surge of ecstasy during sex brings you home, a crisp Autumn wind carries some long forgotten scent which thrills you for inexplicable reasons. A thousand tiny hints show up to seduce you awake and lead you back into your true nature, but they flee when you try to grasp them and leave you wondering if you were just imagining things.
You weren't though.
This quality of richness and balance and home is Who You Really Are. That is the kingdom we seek and it waits for us to find it. It wants us to regain our rightful place. — Jacob Nordby

So often we speak of finding our callings, when often our callings find us. We can choose to honor or ignore them; to fight or embrace them. When we allow love to guide our thoughts, we are open to their gift. When we allow fear to arise and dictate our direction, we deny ourselves and the world the gift of our true selves. — Sharon E. Reed

Narcissistic pleasure seekers routinely avoid developing the humility required to manufacture a life of full measure. Shallow persons such as me hide their insecurities behind a false persona of bravado, boasting of their inconsequential deeds, pyrrhic victories, and adamant refusals to tackle any task that they fear. — Kilroy J. Oldster

A person without a philosophy for living is at the tender mercy of other people. — Kilroy J. Oldster

Jesus meets every one of our deepest needs. And what we need to do is accept his gift of a pastor-given, purposeful living home in heaven. — Rick Warren

Next to our search for God, our search for our purpose is an adventure that leaves all other adventures as largely adventure-less. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Every choice has a purpose. Every move is deliberate. I am deliberating creating my business and life every day. — Sheri Kaye Hoff

Let the whole world tag you wrongly, brand you with evil and create a different you, and let God give you a solemn tag of dignity and see you differently, you have no problem at all! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Leaving the world without keeping an heirloom is a degradation of the divine purpose. — Michael Bassey Johnson

Cancer taught me a plan for more purposeful living, and that in turn taught me how to train and to win more purposefully. It taught me that pain has a reason, and that sometimes the experience of losing things-whether health or a car or an old sense of self-has its own value in the scheme of life. Pain and loss are great enhancers. — Lance Armstrong

Decision, Decision, Decision!
Choices, Choices, Choice.!
Decision and choices define life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

We all do think of getting to the ultimate in life.The ultimate way to get to the ultimate is to take the ultimate way in life — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Sometimes life will be awesome. Sometimes, life will look blurry. Along the way in the journey of life, sometimes, life will be colder than warmer and sometimes warmer than colder but in all things we must remember that it is never over for a purposeful journey of life until the journey of life is over. Be it rough or smooth, good or bad, we must accomplish the task. It shall always not be good and it shall always not be bad; we only have to work hard. — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

We worship numberless gods or idols, but we all need to be the grandest possible versions of ourselves, we need to walk across the face of the earth with as much grace and beauty as we can muster before we're wrapped in our winding sheets, and returned. — Michael Cunningham

A person must move beyond guilt and unexamined thoughts and motives in order to discover a purpose for living vibrantly. — Kilroy J. Oldster

People who live a life of purpose have core beliefs and values that influence their decisions, shape their day-to-day actions, and determine their short- and long-term priorities. — Frank Sonnenberg

When God chooses you to deliver a message, to have a purpose, no one and nothing can reverse the course of His plan. — Carlos Wallace

No one will live forever. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The fact that you are born means you have the potential of benefiting yourself and generations — Abegunde Sunday O.

Life becomes a blessing when you discover your calling — Sunday Adelaja

Comfort has been the very reason why so many people never lived their real and true destiny though they got to a certain comfortable destination! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Whatever is within your limit, do it to lift the souls of humankind. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Do not love money more than yourself. — Lailah Gifty Akita

One dangerous thing about comfort is this: it always comforts and it can really stop real purpose! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

I want to live my life to its fullest potential. I want to embrace my own purpose, however large or small it may be. I want to find my own Nehru moments and take positive steps toward becoming the person I am meant to be. The journey will undoubtedly be a winding one, filled with surprises and setbacks as well as gifts. But I'm ready to embrace it fully, wherever it may take me. — Mallika Chopra

Your sacred right is to decide your own fate. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Thought is uncontrollable but controllable. Thought is the pivot of life and the epitome of good or bad living. A controlled thought is a controlled life and an uncontrolled life is an uncontrolled living. Our first and last thoughts from dawn to dusk are of great essence to living a purposeful life. They form a catalyst for a progressive or retrogressive life. What do you think of most before you sleep? What do you ponder upon most upon waking up from bed? The distinctive boundaries to your purposeful day are your first and last thoughts of the day. Remember! the first and the last thoughts. — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Don't try to use God to achieve your purpose. Rather, aim to achieve His — Sunday Adelaja

Words are words. People add meaning to words.
Information is information. With words people add value to information.
Words breathe life into information. Words move mountains of information.
Words are action. Momentum for living evolves from pursuit of deeper, wider and higher significance, utility and value of words.
Words we sow, nourish and harvest feed hungry minds and hearts. Gathered words strengthen, ignite and release us.
Words identify, signify and proclaim our individuality. Words pronounce a purposeful life's choices.
With wisdom, courage and patience we must choose high-performing words for long-term relationships. Chosen words become soul mates. — John R. Dallas Jr.

Liberating a prejudiced mind from its preconceived notions and scripting a life of purposefulness requires constant postulation, observation, evaluation, and synthesizing. — Kilroy J. Oldster

Be your own hero. Be smart. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Without thoughtful effort and purposeful change, human life does not improve. The key to living a meaningful life is to accept reality. There is no inherent meaning to life just as there is no hidden meaning behind death. Life is limited and death is simply an ending. The only meaning to life is what each person passionately commits their life to accomplishing. — Kilroy J. Oldster

When you are on a time bound purposeful journey, rest is not just idleness but wastefulness. — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Define who you are. Define your future. — Lailah Gifty Akita

We need money for daily living and upkeep. But money isn't everything. — Lailah Gifty Akita

One stroke out of sync may alter the picture, but it doesn't cancel purpose; it may slow you down but doesn't disqualify you. — Bidemi Mark-Mordi

Be yourself! Don't be somebody! Be humble to authority, but be assertive! Mind your solemn duty and responsibility to the Supreme God, for you shall give account to Him in the end! You were created uniquely, mind your mind! Mind the things that can change your mindset, and mind people! People are always alert to do all things possible to change your mind set. They wish you become the reason for their joy even if it causes you an inner pain! They wish you halt a purposeful journey. They wish you look and see, hear and listen, think and act, as they do! Their joy is to see you being like them, and their sorrow and envy is to see you living your true you! Be yourself! If only you living your true you please God, no problem exists! Just be yourself and mind your mind! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

He belongs to me, and I to him... without each-other, we are merely two lost pieces, empty, without purpose... — Chelsea Radojcic

When confronted with fear, remember that your purpose is bigger than anything that may try to stop you. — Bidemi Mark-Mordi

I don't believe everything "is meant to be." I believe God wants to direct our steps, but our free will makes for a lot of detours. — Kirstin Leigh

A man of purpose may fall many times, but the knowledge of his purpose will be the reason he gets up every time. — Bidemi Mark-Mordi

Everyone on this earth was born for a reason, what's yours? — Frank Sonnenberg

May you find your purpose and passionately live it. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The Lord's gracious hand is upon us.
We will begin the good work. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I am living life daringly. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Our identity as Christians is a purpose-driven life — Sunday Adelaja

Living is a creative and active process of diligent learning that entails industrious human action, attentive awareness, and thoughtful reflection. Learning is one facet of human beings innate capacity that can provide a sense of worthiness to human life. — Kilroy J. Oldster

May the Creator guide you in unfamiliar path. — Lailah Gifty Akita

learn the lessons before they are over. Life is a composition of series and sequence of lessons. Each lesson comes with its own lessons to learn. our failure to learn the lessons of one shall be the reasons to learn another lesson with similar lessons. — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah