Top 200 Purpose Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “Define your priorities, know your values and believe in your purpose. Only then can you effectively share yourself with others.”

— Les Brown

152. “The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be.”

— Oprah Winfrey

153. “If you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Follow your bliss and don’t be afraid, and doors will open where you didn’t know they were going to be.”

— Joseph Campbell

154. “People are afraid to pursue their most important dreams, because they feel that they don’t deserve them, or that they’ll be unable to achieve them.”

— Paulo Coelho

155. “The best things in life make you sweaty.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

156. “To succeed, work hard, never give up and above all cherish a magnificent obsession.”

— Walt Disney

157. “Every life has a purpose. Share your story and you may help someone find their own.”

— Demi Lovato

158. “Ignore all hatred and criticism. Live for what you create, and die protecting it.”

— Lady Gaga

159. “Suffering has a noble purpose: the evolution of consciousness and the burning up of the ego.”

— Eckhart Tolle

160. “Don’t become a wandering generality. Be a meaningful specific.”

— Zig Ziglar

161. “The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything.”

— Warren Buffett

162. “Wherever you are, be all there! Live to the hilt every situation you believe to be the will of God.”

— Jim Elliot

163. “Find your purpose, find your voice.”

— Demi Lovato

164. “If you want the best the world has to offer, offer the world your best.”

— Neale Donald Walsch

165. “Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.”

— Stephen Hawking

166. “When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.”

— Rumi

167. “God knows your value; He sees your potential. You may not understand everything you are going through right now. But hold your head up high, knowing that God is in control and he has a great plan and purpose for your life.”

— Joel Osteen

168. “You can do anything you want to do – This is your world.”

— Bob Ross

169. “All I can do is be me, whoever that is.”

— Bob Dylan

170. “Life is God’s gift to us. What we do with it is our gift to God.”

— A. R. Bernard

171. “We are created for community, fashioned for fellowship, and formed for a family, and none of us can fulfill God’s purposes by ourselves.”

— Rick Warren

172. “The purpose of art is to stop time.”

— Bob Dylan

173. “The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

174. “Morality comes from humanism and is stolen by religion for its own purposes.”

— Christopher Hitchens

175. “Quit living as if the purpose of life is to arrive safely at death.”

— Mark Batterson

176. “When purpose is not known, abuse is inevitable.”

— Myles Munroe

177. “Man is nothing else but what he purposes, he exists only in so far as he realizes himself, he is therefore nothing else but the sum of his actions, nothing else but what his life is.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

178. “Hands that serve are holier than lips that pray.”

— Sai Baba

179. “What a different story men would have to tell if only they would adopt a DEFINITE PURPOSE, and stand by that purpose until it had time to become an all-consuming obsession!”

— Napoleon Hill

180. “Do all you can to make your dreams come true.”

— Joel Osteen

181. “The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon.”

— Brandon Sanderson

182. “Love without action is meaningless and action without love is irrelevant.”

— Deepak Chopra

183. “Follow your passions, believe in karma, and you won’t have to chase your dreams, they will come to you.”

— Randy Pausch

184. “Better by far to embrace the hard truth than a reassuring fable. If we crave some cosmic purpose, then let us find ourselves a worthy goal.”

— Carl Sagan

185. “I serve God, and my purpose is to please Him, and if God be for you, who can be against you?”

— Ben Carson

186. “The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers.”

— Richard Hamming

187. “No one will take better care of your dream than you.”

— Les Brown

188. “The ultimate purpose of life is to show that Jesus is more precious than life.”

— John Piper

189. “Unless you assume a God, the question of life’s purpose is meaningless.”

— Bertrand Russell

190. “With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

191. “The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.”

— Mark Twain

192. “Everything happens for a reason and a purpose, and it serves you.”

— Tony Robbins

193. “The greatest tragedy is not death, but life without purpose.”

— Rick Warren

194. “If through a broken heart God can bring His purposes to pass in the world, then thank Him for breaking your heart.”

— Oswald Chambers

195. “The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.”

— T. S. Eliot

196. “It’s not my responsibility to be beautiful. I’m not alive for that purpose. My existence is not about how desirable you find me.”

— Warsan Shire

197. “If you do not believe in a personal God, the question: ‘What is the purpose of life?’ is unaskable and unanswerable.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

198. “Do whatever you have to do to make sure you chase your legacy every second of your life.”

— Ray Lewis

199. “Life’s too short to spend it trying to keep others happy. You can’t please everyone. To fulfill your destiny, stay true to your heart.”

— Joel Osteen

200. “You only get one life. It’s actually your duty to live it as fully as possible.”

— Jojo Moyes