John Wesley Quotes

I think people get satisfaction from living for a cause that's greater than themselves. They want to leave an imprint. By writing books, I'm trying to do that in a modest way.

May I not seem to have lived in vain.

Oh Lord, let me not live to be useless.

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

I want to be remembered for doing something bigger than myself and making a positive impact on the world. I want to make my life worth something and to die a legend and to make my family proud.

If you're not doing something with your life, then it doesn’t matter how long you live. If you're doing something with your life, then it doesn't matter how short your life may be. A life is not measured by years lived, but by its usefulness. If you are giving, loving, serving, helping, encouraging, and adding value to others, then you're living a life that counts!

If you don't live a life in service of a greater good, you've gotta at least die a death in service of a greater good, you know? And I fear that I won't get either a life or a death that means anything.

Nothing would mean anything if I didn't live a life of use to others.

My life is a contribution.

When you live positively it is impossible to not also be living for something greater than yourself.

The fullness or emptiness of life will be measured by the extent to which a man feels that he has an impact on the lives of others.

I want the world to be better because I was here. I want my life, I want my work, my family, I want it to mean something and if you are not making someone else's life better then you are wasting your time.

You get one life. Live it in a way that it inspires someone.

One cannot lead a life that is truly excellent without feeling that one belongs to something greater and more permanent than oneself.

Paradoxically, life is worth living for those who have something for which they will gladly give up life.

We have to have a purpose greater than the endless struggle to satisfy personal desires.

I fear waking up one morning and finding out my life was all for nothing. We're here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark. When you're kind to someone in trouble, you hope they remember and are kind to someone else and so on. Soon it will be like a wildfire.

I won't have any money to leave behind. I won't have the fine and luxurious things of life to leave behind. But I just want to leave a committed life behind.

The dream of man's heart ... is that life may complete in significant pattern.

The measure of a man's life is the well spending of it, and not the length.

True ambition is not what we thought it was. True ambition is the profound desire to live usefully and walk humbly under the grace of God.

A life well used procures a happy death.

A life is not worth much of which it cannot be said, when it comes to its close, that it was helpful to humanity.

An easy life is rarely meaningful and a meaningful life rarely easy.

I would rather have it said, 'He lived usefully,' than, 'He died rich.'