Best Purpose Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“I'm just taking one step at a time. I could zigzag one way, but it's not usually on purpose.”

“Have a specific goal every time you hit the gym; this way, your workouts have built-in purpose.”

“Wherever God has given faith, it is given, among other reasons, for the very purpose of being tried.”

“I have to believe that literature can effect change; otherwise, I would have no purpose in my life and would have wasted four years on 'Ilustrado.'”

“And as long as man has walked on this Earth, there has been God. And man's purpose is for the glorification of God.”

“I think of life itself now as a wonderful play that I've written for myself, and so my purpose is to have the utmost fun playing my part.”

“I try to have all my songs relatable for my daughter in a fun and upbeat way that has a meaning.”

“If particulars are to have meaning, there must be universals.”

“I'm definitely working class, and I still believe in those values. I know that losing everything would not be an unfamiliar feeling. Meaning, if you don't have it anymore, you didn't have it to begin with.”

“There are two types of young people - the partiers and the people who wanted a sense of purpose in their life.”

“Trust me, I hate playing five sets. I don't do it on purpose.”

“The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.”

“These are old issues. Female power, misogyny, the treatment of women, how you make meaning in the world. And these are all issues that I've been thinking about and writing about for a very long time.”

“As much as I enjoy traveling and playing on stage as an artist, I really find my true sense of purpose in a room writing a song.”

“Because of my Calvinistic upbringing, I was trained to think that what you do has to have a purpose.”

“I feel a responsibility to myself, and not so much for the world at large. Because of my Calvinistic upbringing, I was trained to think that what you do has to have a purpose.”

“Getting in touch with your life purpose is important.”

“The purpose of a vacation is to have the time to rest. But many of us, even when we go on vacation, don't know how to rest. We may even come back more tired than before we left.”

“I must act now without knowing the results. Thus, I give my actions their only possible meaning for me.”

“I believe that when things happen, they happen with a purpose.”

“Always remember: My general theme is 'There is no message.' There never has been. Stop trying to find the message or the meaning in everything. That's. My. Theme.”

“Say thank you. Say it often, and say it with meaning.”

“Writing comes from that territory of being invalidated. But I had a sense of purpose, too. I wanted to stop apologising for my health, and I thought I might do some good.”

“I hate the word lesbian; it tells you nothing; its only purpose is to inflame.”

“It's always going to have meaning if you can help your brother achieve his targets.”

“I love fairy tales because I think that behind fairy tales, there is always a meaning.”

“A guy who is walking out of his crease purposefully because he wants to take advantage is wrong.”

“I used to get suspended on purpose by being defiant and talking back to the teachers.”

“I'm a full-contact actor, meaning that I love to act in my toes and in my fingers, and I just try to keep it surprising.”

“Everyone faces the challenge of finding meaning to their suffering.”

“I don't subscribe to the view some people have in the industry that you should purposefully design products that do not last that long. I don't think it is good for anyone.”

“'Do I have a purpose.' Right. And of course you do. Otherwise, you wouldn't be on Earth. I really strongly believe that if we're here, it's for a reason.”

“Music gives us new energy and a stronger sense of purpose.”

“I think each artist lives with purpose. A strong sense of purpose. We know who's come before us.”

“Doubt has purpose sometimes. If we don't think our work is good enough, we strive to do better and be better. Which then makes us better because practice does just that.”

“Music was everything. But what the digital revolution has done, with streaming services and downloads, is take the value out of music. When things lose value they lose their meaning.”

“I looked to books to stimulate my mind and create a daily sense of purpose.”

“When TV came along some years back I purposely stayed away from drama.”

“A few years ago you couldn't go from TV to film. It was like a 'no no' but I believe when you find a plan and purpose that God has for your life, there's not anything man can do to you. Especially when your faith is not really standing in the wisdom of man, you're really standing in the wisdom of God.”

“I had purpose in my heart that I would stand up for the truth regardless of what I might lose in life.”

“The purpose of torture is not getting information. It's spreading fear.”

“Behavior is a virus. We spread our behavior to those around us, whether passively or on purpose.”

“It's very important to me that every person takes away their own meaning from a song, and it's why I don't always love spelling out what a song is about for somebody.”

“I do much less sparring and always with the purpose of working on something in particular.”

“I've said no to a tonne of opportunities for years because my sole purpose was to train, eat, sleep and compete.”

“We would never do anything for the sole purpose of bumming people out or upsetting people.”

“Anyone that I've ever worked with, it's not like I just meet you or someone throws us together for the sole purpose of coming up with a song that's gonna be a hit. I have to have some sort of relationship, or we had to have interacted on some other sort of level and that's when it feels most natural.”

“The fame and the money and all that stuff that comes along with it is all great, but that's not the sole purpose of why I make music.”

“Semi-automatic weapons have no socially redeeming purpose.”

“If you don't believe in what you're doing, if you don't feel comfortable, or you're not meaning what you're saying, no matter if you love it or not - you can still connect with a song, but if you don't, I feel like people can easily sniff that out.”

“I've always felt quite singular, even as a child. That I must stay on track to keep my purpose.”

“I don't think the singers take it as seriously as we used to. The words, the meaning, the phrasing, the feeling of the song. They see the words, they know the tune and they just sing it.”

“'What is the purpose of the universe?' is a silly question.”

“I think humor is used a lot of the time to keep people from getting too close. Humor side-steps and shifts the meaning.”

“Yet I wanted to have children, and I knew that was my purpose, but I wasn't going to settle.”

“I always want to find meaning in stuff that sucks - I don't want it to be the end of the sentence.”

“I love that people are still obsessively trying to understand and decode 'The Shining.' People want to find meaning in things that seemingly don't have meaning on the surface.”

“I'm always searching. It's the reason I'm here. It's not really about music: it's about searching for meaning.”

“To me, I think I'm just going to keep focused and forward on what I'm doing, work-wise, rather than searching for any kind of meaning in it.”

“You have a generation that is saying we are tapping out of religion in many ways. But what they are not saying is that we are tapping out of a serious search for meaning in life.”

“One of my favorite books is 'Man's Search for Meaning.'”

“Worst case scenario, nothing I do has any value or purpose, but if I can make someone laugh, I'm at least as useful as a piece of quiche would be.”

“Soy sauce is really a multi-purpose seasoning.”

“I'm satisfied it's very black, meaning 'in the black'.”

“Sometimes, the best way to keep hate from ruling us is to strip the meaning from the words behind which it tries to hide.”

“I think first of all my purpose is to be me. I didn't come here to specifically be a role model or anything.”

“I think about rodeo every day. I miss it. It's what gave me purpose.”

“The way that the robotics market is going to grow, at least in the home, is that we'll have a number of different special purpose robots.”

“I think that there is something about the ritual of making things more difficult that people find meaning in.”

“There's a righteousness in thinking that you're doing something, that there's a cause behind it, there's a purpose behind it, there's a right behind it.”

“Riding exhilarated me; it gave me a joy and a purpose.”

“I've moved about 10 times over the past 15 years. I don't move for the sole purpose of getting rid of stuff. I'm not crazy. I also move so that I never have to wash any windows.”

“I'm actually a dad, I've grown up, and got responsibilities, so... I've got a purpose.”

“If a guy treats me respectfully and the waiter demeaningly, I'm turned off.”

“It was reported that I said I wouldn't, shouldn't have gone to New York. No. I said I shouldn't have left Steve Nash. It's a little bit different on the meaning.”

“I get up with a renewed sense of energy because what I do feels purpose-driven.”

“Businesses always are reluctant to make governmental filings about the purpose and terms of their relationships. That's particularly so when sensitive strategic and legal matters are involved - and when misfiling could result in criminal sanctions.”

“Relief Society can help us turn away from the world, for its express purpose is to help sisters and their families come unto Christ.”

“Design should revolve around what the main purpose of the space is. If you plan to live there, it should reflect your personality.”

“It's funny: sometimes with 'Spaced,' people would try and read too much into something I'd done, with the references meaning something more than they do.”

“The purpose - where I start - is the idea of use. It is not recycling, it's reuse.”

“I would never try to recreate something 'bad' on purpose.”

“The process of reclaiming the self is one of reconciliation with meaning.”

“Religion is a reassurance - in fact, that's its only purpose.”

“'Rescue Me' is the first book in a three-book series. Although, like all my series, the books are purposely written so that readers do not have to read them in order.”

“Rap culture is interesting and different and has purpose but it has a non-romantic view of life and of social feelings. There may be a void in that.”

“I've had to take roles that on purpose were not Will-like so that someone like 'The Hollywood Reporter' would write, 'McCormack shows great range; no Will Truman here.'”

“I want to play a range, from victims to strong people, just as long as it's a well-rounded character. And it's not a woman who's just there for the purpose of the man.”

“The strongest tool we, as Americans, have is our ability to rally together and to find solutions with unity of purpose.”

“If there's a song that stops meaning anything to me, then I'll quit playing it.”

“I wanted to be that quirky girl who writes funny songs that still have meaning.”

“I'm very task-oriented. The idea of constantly pursuing something with purpose helps me to stay focused.”

“As Miss World, you are a face for beauty with a purpose. You can't just be beautiful. You have to have the zeal and courage to pursue the purpose.”

“It would be fantastic to spend your whole life trying to pursue something and then finally, at the last moment, you achieve it. You know, instead of getting it in the middle of the pursuit and spending the second half giving it meaning.”

“God will use us for his purposes, but it takes a certain kind of listening.”

“People have used my views for purposes which are very different from mine.”

“I think some people ramp a side of themselves up for performance purposes.”

“For the purposes of the play, it was perfect to be able to use that and the stresses and strains that there were. At the end of the play, the mother realizes the terrible things she had done.”

“I know that I often take risks, but it is always for the purposes of the team.”

“I was 48-years old before anybody talked me into it for medicinal purposes, instead of some of these drugs that they give you that will lead you to heart surgery and things of that nature.”