Jose Rizal Quotes

It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal.

Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

Life is short, and therefore, one thing being certain, death, let us take up a great ideal, and give up the whole life to it. For what is the value of life, this vegetating little low life of man? Subordinating it to one high ideal is the only value that life has.

And we've all chosen to do this with our lives. So it better be damn good. It better be worth it.

Knowing your purpose gives meaning to your life.

Life lived somehow for love is life never wasted.

This is the true joy of life-the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown to the scrap-heap; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish clod of ailments and grievances.

My mama always used to tell me: 'If you can't find somethin' to live for, you best find somethin' to die for.'

There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why.

While goals are chosen, a purpose is discovered. Our purpose is something we have been doing all along, and will continue to do, regardless of circumstances, until the day we die.

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

It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the great whole of life dawn on you.

As a child, my mother had instilled in me a feeling of being born for a purpose.

If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

Happiness means nothing to me. I just want to have meaning and purpose.

Everybody has a purpose.

I'm not searching for the meaning of life, but I'm looking for a meaning within my life.

Everybody has a purpose in this world.

Life is a mission, not a career.

living for a high purpose is as honorable as dying for it.

Your life has purpose as long as you dedicate it to love. It's not what we do but who we are that forms our biggest contribution.

The struggle for existence is a struggle 'for' something; it is purposeful and only in so being is it meaningful and able to bring meaning into life.

Not everyone has a purpose.

I know many lives worth living.

A man isn't really alive till he has something bigger than himself and his own little happiness, for which he'd gladly die.