If You are Struggling to Find Your Purpose in Life, These 30 Quotes are For You

Updated: Aug 9, 2021
By Ajibike Maryam Olaitan
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Your life purpose is your life message, your reason for existing. It’s the reason why you get up every morning, the reason why you try to be better, the reason why you feel unfulfilled after a wasted day. Finding your purpose is important and it can make a great impact in your life and also in the life of others around you. Some people think that you can only start to find your purpose in life when you clock 25 or 30, but the truth is that it doesn’t matter if you are 8, 16, 19, or even 30 if you want to live a meaningful life that others would want to emulate, you need to find your purpose in life. In this article, you will find 30 quotes about finding your purpose in life. These quotes about finding your purpose in life will encourage you and also help you up when it all seems like it would come crashing down.

1. Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.

Viktor Frankl

2. There is no greater gift you can give or receive than to honour your calling. It is why you were born. And how you become most truly alive.

Oprah Winfrey

3. He who has a why to live can bear almost anyhow.

Friedrich Nietzsche

4. Having a purpose is the difference between making a living and making a life.

Tom Thiss

5. To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment.

James Allen

6. The heart of human excellence often begins to beat when you discover a pursuit that absorbs you, frees you, challenges you, or gives you a sense of meaning, joy, or passion.

Terry Orlick

7. When you find your WHY, you don’t hit snooze no more! You find a way to make it happen.

Eric Thomas

8. Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.

W. Clement Stone

9. The path to our destination is not always a straight one. We go down the wrong road, we get lost, we turn back. Maybe it doesn’t matter which road we embark on. Maybe what matters is that we embark.

Barbara Hall

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

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

11. You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So, you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

Steve Jobs

12. If you can’t figure out your purpose, figure out your passion. For your passion will lead you right into your purpose.

Bishop T.D. Jakes

13. The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honourable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

14. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.

Seneca

15. Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

John F. Kennedy

16. If you have a strong purpose in life, you don’t have to be pushed. Your passion will drive you there.

Roy T. Bennett

17. Don’t ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.

Howard Thurman

18. Knowing your purpose gives your life meaning, simplicity, focus and motivation. It also prepares you for eternity.

Rick Warren

19. Your purpose must be particular to you. This is the road less travelled. Your purpose cannot be someone else’s path, not your family’s, not your friend’s path.

Drew Scott Pearlman

20. For starters, making a positive contribution to someone else’s life says that you are worthwhile and have a purpose in life.

Luke Gregory

21. Once you determine that the important result you want are an expression of your life’s purpose, you cannot help but bring drive, dedication, and determination to each day’s efforts. You will be driven to act relentlessly to meet cherished goals, all the while feeling rewarded, satisfied and even joyful in the process.

Russell Grieger

22. You can’t just sit there and wait for people to give you that golden dream, you’ve got to get out there and make it happen for yourself.

Diana Ross

23. The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere is to be nowhere.

Michel de Montaigne

24. By setting and pursuing goals, you have nothing to lose but a lot to gain. It has been scientifically proven that people who set goals are more fulfilled and positive about life. Having a purpose to wake up to each day will challenge us and give us meaning.

Zoe Mckey

25. It doesn’t matter how long you are spending on the earth, how much money you have gathered or how much attention you have received. It is the amount of positive vibration you have radiated in your life that matters.

Amit Ray

26. I want to live my life in such a way that when I get out of bed in the morning, the devil says. “aw shit, he’s up!”.

Steve Maraboli

27.A man said to the universe: “sir, I exist!” “However,” replied the universe, “The fact has not created in me a sense of obligation.”

Stephen Crane

28. The significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and courage. We are the custodians of life’s meaning. We long for a parent to care for us, to forgive our errors, to save us from our childish mistakes. But knowledge is preferable to ignorance. 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

29. A wind that blows aimlessly is no good to anyone.

Rick Riordan

30. Nothing is more creative… nor destructive… than a brilliant mind with a purpose.

Dan Brown

Conclusion

You need to constantly ask yourself important questions to discover yourself and also find your purpose. The above quotes about finding your purpose in life would guide you along the right path to understand why it is necessary to have a purpose and also how to find it. These quotes about finding your purpose in life are by intelligent people who have walked the face of the earth, in search of their purpose and what makes life worth living to them.

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