Greater Purpose Quotes

To give life a meaning, one must have a purpose larger than self.

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

Somehow economic growth and prosperity, political democracy and freedom are not enough—that we lack at some core level of meaning in our individual lives and meaning collectively, that sense that our lives are part of some greater effort, that we are connected to one another, that community means that we have a place where we belong no matter who we are.

I'm a believer of destiny and I believe I'm destiny's child. I've seen the highs and I've seen the lows and I believe things happen for a reason and always for the best. Maybe this was all meant to be and maybe Big Brother worked as a catalyst in a bigger issue like racism, which was important to be broached. Maybe it had to happen this way and I'm glad that I could help it.

To find a cause that's larger than yourself and then to give your life to it.

A lot of people believe they are successful because they have everything they want. They have added value to themselves. But I believe significance comes when you add value to others and you can't have true success without significance.

In order to maintain my own self-respect, I had to dedicate my life to something that was greater than my own self-interest.

Remain open. There is something bigger than you know going on here.

If you are always trying to do something for a cause bigger than you - connected with serving others - then it is hard to be guilty.

From bitter searching of the heart, quickened with passion and with pain we rise to play a greater part this is the faith from which we start.

I'm hoping what all sentient beings hope ... that somehow I'm part of something larger than myself, in which I play a role, an actual role that is somehow intended and meaningful.

You are fit for something better than ... cannon fodder.

If our life has a meaning, an aim, it has nothing to do with our personal happiness, but something wiser and greater.

Entrepreneurs must be practical experts. They needn't set out to be subject matter experts in what they do; they must set out to solve a problem or pursue some cause or purpose greater than themselves.

There's more to Life than this

We are all cells of a much larger body, and like the cells of our own body it is hard for us to glimpse the whole pattern of the whole of what is happening, and yet we can sense that there is a purpose, and there is a pattern.

You’re not a human being until you value something more than the life of your body. And the greater the thing you live and die for the greater you are.

We refuse to believe that this present world is the sum total of human existence.

So it is that the life force may take possession of a man-- so that in the end he may be possessed by something greater, no longer at all belonging to himself.

That larger vision is certain to make clear the value in our own lives of service to others.

When pop culture can influence things in any way, when a song becomes something bigger than just a song, that's the greatest thing to me.

One of the greatest thrills in all of life is to feel the hand of God working through you and to be a part of the working reality of the church engaged in a movement larger than self.

Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men.

I think there is something bigger in store for me.

You have to be driven by something greater than you, where you don't surrender, and you commit to something like that.