Purpose Quotes to Motivate You to Live a Meaningful Life

1. “The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.” – Pablo Picasso

2. “Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it.” – Buddha

3. “Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.” – John F. Kennedy

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

5. “When you find your why, you find a way to make it happen.” – Eric Thomas

6. “True happiness… is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.” – Helen Keller

7. “Your life is your message to the world. Make it inspiring.” – Lorrin L. Lee

8. “It’s not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something.” – Winston Churchill

9. “The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.” – Michel de Montaigne

10. “Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.” – Viktor Frankl

11. “Success demands singleness of purpose.” – Vince Lombardi

12. “Purpose is the reason you journey. Passion is the fire that lights your way.” – Unknown

13. “The best way to lengthen out our days is to walk steadily and with a purpose.” – Charles Dickens

14. “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” – Oscar Wilde

15. “Believe in your infinite potential. Your only limitations are those you set upon yourself.” – Roy T. Bennett

16. “To forget one’s purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

17. “Don’t ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and go do that.” – Howard Thurman

18. “Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” – William James

19. “A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.” – Jean de La Fontaine

20. “The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

21. “Your work is to discover your work and then, with all your heart, to give yourself to it.” – Buddha

22. “Life without purpose is like a body without a soul.” – Unknown

23. “When you are on a mission, you cannot be defeated.” – Les Brown

24. “Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.” – Oprah Winfrey

25. “Find out who you are and do it on purpose.” – Dolly Parton

26. “The secret of success is constancy to purpose.” – Benjamin Disraeli

27. “Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.” – Washington Irving

28. “Purpose fuels passion. Passion ignites performance.” – Unknown

29. “Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.” – Steve Jobs

30. “Happiness comes when you believe in what you are doing, know what you are doing, and love what you are doing.” – Brian Tracy