Patrick Lencioni Quotes

I don't know why I'm alive but I know there's a reason for it.

'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.

All of us are born for a reason, but all of us don't discover why.

Living is having and following a purpose. That's all.

Maybe I am looking for the reason why I exist.

I have a calling in my soul, if you like, to try to make my life in some way worthwhile. What is the value of my existence?

Everybody has a purpose.

The secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for.

The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.

Losing your life is not the worst thing that can happen. The worst thing is to lose your reason for living.

What do you live for? Would you die for it?

Life's objective is life itself.

The question, O me! so sad, recurring - What good amid these, O me, O life? That you are here - that life exists and identity, that the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.

Every character is asking: 'What's my place? Why am I here? I don't want the answer to be 'Just because.' You find your own purpose. Each finds the reason to be here and how to contribute.

Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

But really it was just, it was perfect. You know, I actually got that feeling like you know what, maybe this is why I'm alive, you know - maybe this is why I'm here on this on earth.

The fact we exist merely means we exist. That's all it means.

I've always asked myself since I was young, what is my duty on this planet? What am I there for? Just to hang around? Everybody must have some purpose.

If we have our own why of life, we shall get along with almost any how. Man does not strive for pleasure; only the Englishman does.

A man with nothing to die for has even less for which to live.

Is death that which gives meaning to life?

What is the why behind everything you do?

But do we really live? To live without knowing what life is - is that living?

It takes a well-spent lifetime, and perhaps more, to crystalize in us that for which we exist.