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Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction. -- John F. Kennedy
Separately there was only wind, water, sail, and hull, but at my hand the four had been given purpose and direction. -- Lowell Thomas
It is difficult to spread the contagion of excitement without having a sense of purpose and direction. -- Daniel Goleman
We intend to lead a government of purpose and direction so that we can offer the people of this nation the opportunity to move forward to independence, democracy and equality. -- Alex Salmond
Sometimes nothing is so solid to me as writing - I suppose that's what a vocation means - at times a torment, a bad conscience, but all in all, purpose and direction. -- Robert Lowell
Most people trusted in the future, assuming that their preferred version of it would unfold. Blindly planning for it, envisioning things that weren't the case. This was the working of the will. This was what gave the world purpose and direction. Not what was there but what was not. -- Jhumpa Lahiri
Lucifer whispers that life's not fair and that if the gospel were true, we would never have problems or disappointments. ... The gospel isn't a guarantee against tribulation. That would be like a test with no questions. Rather, the gospel is a guide for maneuvering through the challenges of life with a sense of purpose and direction. -- Sheri L. Dew
Liberal learning is that which underlies, that which gives purpose and direction to practical skills. It tries to distinguish between the more and the less important, between the grand and the trivial, and to concern itself rather with the center than with the periphery. -- Denham Sutcliffe
Public deliberation is a means by which citizens make tough choices about basic purposes and directions for their communities and their country. -- F. David Mathews
We actually believe in hope. But hope requires purpose. And purpose requires direction. -- Charles Kennedy
My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right? -- Charles M. Schulz
Indeed, there is nothing like suffering to remind us how much we need God. What good news that His purpose and plan for our lives moves in a different direction from ours! -- Tullian Tchividjian
George W. Bush brought a lot of minorities into his administration, which was a positive thing, and they had some issues that they wanted to press, but 9/11 really gave them direction. It gave them a purpose. -- Josh Brolin
If you set out to do something and you give it your all and it doesn't work out, be willing to modify your goal slightly. Have the ability to look in another direction. A small shift could guide you to the real purposes of your life. -- Halle Berry
When you get just a complete sense of blackness or void ahead of you, that somehow the future looks an impossible place to be, and the direction you are going seems to have no purpose, there is this word despair which is a very awful thing to feel. -- Stephen Fry
Bush is going in the wrong way. And I dare say, that is what the strategy of his administration is, is just to wipe out government's purpose for any social and economic justice at all. And I'm going to take the country in an opposite direction than he's taking it. -- Dennis Kucinich
I would step into a place of being lined up with a sense of purpose and my inner compass, and everything was going in the same direction. Then I'd get lazy and get off the track. And then things would start to fall apart, and I'd back up and get it together again. -- Kathy Mattea
You are a great, mighty and powerful spiritual being with dignity, direction and purpose. -- Dannion Brinkley
Without a purpose, life is motion without meaning, activity without direction, and events without reason. -- Rick Warren
Life is simplified when there is one center; one reason, one motivation, one direction and purpose. -- Jean Fleming
Lasting happiness comes from steadily working to accomplish your goals and advancing in the direction of your life's purpose. -- Robin Sharma
Without sense of purpose and clear direction of your life, you will only be building a fake brand of you -- Bernard Kelvin Clive
Passion requires focused direction, and that direction must come from three other areas: your purpose, your talents, and your needs. -- Steve Pavlina
You were born to journey in the direction of your purpose. Anything that halts your progress is contrary to your design. -- Steve Maraboli
Whereas purpose provides the juice and the direction, principles define the parameters of action and the criteria for excellence of behavior. -- David Allen
People who do not worship are swept into a vast restlessness, epidemic in the world, with no steady direction and no sustaining purpose. -- Edmund Clowney
Our highest endeavour must be to develop individuals who are able out of their own initiative to impart purpose & direction to their lives. -- Rudolf Steiner
You have to gather your energy together...conserving it and insulating it from dissipation in every direction other than that of your purpose. -- Walter Russell
When we move in a direction that touches our heart, we add to the momentum of deeper purpose that makes us feel more alive. -- Joanna Macy and Chris Johnstone
You know, you don't need to grow old to die. I was dying at the age of 20 as a result of no direction and no purpose. -- Grant Cardone
A primary purpose for setting goals is to get you moving in the right direction. When you set goals, you have to keep them always in mind. -- Stedman Graham

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