Jose Rizal Quotes

It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. It is like a stone wasted on the field without becoming a part of any edifice.

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

No sacrifice is lost for a great ideal!

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.

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

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.

If you make yourself more than just a man, if you devote yourself to an ideal, you become something else entirely.

Live for Him and live with purpose.

We were not sent into this world to do anything into which we cannot put our hearts.

Life lived somehow for love is life never wasted.

A sense of a wider meaning to one's existence is what raises a man beyond mere getting and spending. If he lacks this sense, he is lost and miserable.

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.

We are not here to be successful, we are here to be FAITHFUL

You weren’t created to simply exist, to endure, or to go through the motions; you were created to be really alive.

Life isn't worth living until you have found something worth dying for.

Life without dreaming is a life without meaning.

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

I can't think of anything better to do with a life than to wear it out in efforts to be useful to the world.

Living a life with meaning means spreading the word. Even if you can't move, you can have a powerful effect with what you say.

There is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that is to go on pursuing ends that give our existence a meaning.

Resist doing things that have no meaning for life.

Live for an ideal and leave no place in the mind for anything else.

There is no failure except failure to serve one's purpose.

Nobody wants to have meaninglessness in their lives. You probably see a lot of people living their lives that don't have a whole lot of meaning that you can perceive, and you don't want that for yourself.

When our individual interests and prospects do not seem worth living for, we are in desperate need for something apart from us to live for. All forms of dedication, devotion, loyalty and self-surrender are in essence a desperate clinging to something which might give worth and meaning to our futile, spoiled lives.