Thomas S. Monson Quotes

Until a man selects a DEFINITE PURPOSE IN LIFE, he dissipates his energies & spreads his thoughts over so many subjects & in so many different directions that they lead not to power, but to indecision & weakness.

To have meaning, our lives require both passion and purpose. A life without passion is like a furnace without fuel, and without purpose, like a ship without a rudder.

If you can't figure out your purpose, figure out your passion. For your passion will lead you right into your purpose.

With no goals, no priorities, no life strategy of our own, we drift with the herd through an endless meadow of mediocrity, unable to break loose, to achieve even a small part of the dreams we once cherished.

The people who complain the loudest about never having an opportunity in life are usually the ones who have no idea what they really want.

I think it's really important to give yourself a very big question that you're working on that you can come home to.

I think that most people will spend their whole life not figuring out what they're meant to do, or figuring out what they're meant to do on their way to do something else. So I just feel lucky that I know what I love to do. Everything else figures itself out.

I have reached a place in my life where I need to sit down and say, 'Well, what do I do? What's best for me?' I need to look into options for the future.

I've got, like, too many things that I'd like to try and do, so I'm trying to figure out where the natural pull is strongest.

It's not an accident that musicians become musicians and engineers become engineers: it's what they're born to do. If you can tune into your purpose and really align with it, setting goals so that your vision is an expression of that purpose, then life flows much more easily.

The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.

To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there.

Many people flounder about in life because they do not have a purpose, an objective toward which to work.

I really do feel like Los Angeles is my home now and, as cliche as this sounds, I felt like I found myself here and I really know who I am now. There was a long period like I was drifting or floating through life, and now I feel like I have a definitive target - and future.

My purpose, which I finally found thanks to social media, is helping all of these people find their purpose.

I did find my direction at an early age.

I feel like in a world where we all try to figure out our place and our purpose here, your passions are one of your most obvious guides.

Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny.

You can go slow. Allow your dreams and goals to change, but live an intentional life.

I got to a point when I was 20 that I dropped out of university because I felt I didn't have any purpose, and I wanted to find a fire in me.

I was really rudderless at one point my life. And once I started reading books, then I got the idea that maybe I could become a writer. I had a goal. And every day when I got up, there was a reason.

I know where I was before, and I know where I want to go.

The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for!

Whenever I mentor people and help them discover their purpose, I always encourage them to start the process by discovering their strengths, not exploring their shortcomings. Why? Because people's purpose in life is always connected to their giftedness. It always works that way. You are not called to do something that you have no talent for. You will discover your purpose by finding and remaining in your strength zone.

It's hard sometimes to remember why we do anything in the first place. It's nice to think there's a purpose, or even a real decision that turns everything in one direction, but that's not always true, is it? We just fall into our lives.