15 Purpose Quotes That'll Encourage You to Make the Most of Your Life

In her book Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way we Live, Love, Parent, and Lead, the New York Times best-selling author wrote, "If we want greater clarity in our purpose or deeper and more meaningful spiritual lives, vulnerability is the path."

"What am I living for and what am I dying for are the same question," the author of The Handmaid's Tale wrote in The Year of the Flood.

During his 2005 commencement speech at Stanford the late co-founder of Apple said, "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."

In the November 2010 issue of O, The Oprah Magazine, Oprah wrote, "There is no greater gift you can give or receive than to honor your calling. It's why you were born. And how you become most truly alive."

"I believe purpose is something for which one is responsible; it's not just divinely assigned," the Back to the Future actor wrote in his book Always Looking Up: The Adventures of an Incurable Optimist.

In the May 18, 1978 issue of Jet magazine, the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award winner said, "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."

"Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life," the former First Lady of the United States wrote in The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt.

"Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction," the former President of the United States said during a 1960 speech, according to the John F. Kennedy President Library and Museum.

"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you," the late world-renowned author wrote in one of her autobiographies I Know Why the Caged Birds Sing.

On her Facebook page the inspirational speaker wrote, "Everything you have experienced has been purposeful. It has brought you to where you are now. You have a collection of experiences to use as stepping stones to take you where you want to go."

"It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities," the best-selling author wrote in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.

During a Las Vegas women's march in 2018, Cher said, "If you don't take it, no one is going to give it to you."

"Your real job in life is to figure out what it is you are called to do," the O of O said during an episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show.

In his book The Return of Merlin the best-selling author wrote, "The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness."

"I think that being an artist is one of the highest forms of spirituality you can do, because you are being of service to people," the star of The Office said during a 2015 interview with HuffPost Live’s Ricky Camilleri.