The aim of life has long been a topic of debate. Some think it’s about finding happiness, others seek enlightenment or spiritual freedom and many aim to realize their full potential.
Quotes about life’s purpose offer diverse perspectives. They emphasize setting goals and savoring the journey with its highs and lows.
These aim of life quotes serve as beacons guiding people and providing comfort in their search for meaning.
Many life purpose quotes are motivational and uplifting. They come from various influential figures offering wisdom to inspire and encourage people in their life’s journey.
Let’s get started.
Aim of Life Quotes
Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star. ~ W. Clement Stone.
Life is not a dress rehearsal – wake up every day excited to live out your purpose. ~ Andrew Wommack.
But to believe that getting stuff is the purpose and aim of life is madness. ~ Hubert Selby, Jr.
Things must be felt with the heart. ~ Helen Keller.
Life is not a problem to be solved, but an experience to be had. ~ Alan Watts.
By thinking about your goals every morning, many times during the day, and every night, you begin moving toward it, and bringing it toward you. ~ Bob Proctor.
A mere 7% of employees today fully understand their company’s business strategies and what’s expected of them in order to help achieve company goals. ~ Robert S. Kaplan.
Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither. ~ C. S. Lewis.
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced. ~ Soren Kierkegaard.
Remember that the Tarot is a great and sacred arcanum – its abuse is an obscenity in the inner and a folly in the outer. It is intended for quite other purposes than to determine when the tall dark man will meet the fair rich widow. ~ Jack Parsons.
I’m not living the life I thought I would lead, but it does have meaning, purpose. There is love… there is joy… there is laughter. ~ Christopher Reeve.
Best Aim of Life Quotes
Don’t aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally. Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart. ~ Anne Frank.
The main purpose of my work is to provoke people into using their imagination. Most people spend their lives in dreary, grey-beige conformity, mortally afraid of using colours. By experimenting with lighting, colours, textiles and furniture and utilizing the latest technologies, I try to show new ways to encourage people to use their phantasy and make their surroundings more exciting. ~ Verner Panton.
It is a terrible thing to be happy! How pleased we are with it! How all-sufficient we think it! How, being in possession of the false aim of life, happiness, we forget the true aim, duty! ~ Victor Hugo.
My goal is to formulate a new color theory based on the full spectrum of visible light. ~ Olafur Eliasson.
Leaders, whether in the family, in business, in government, or in education, must not allow themselves to mistake intentions for accomplishments. ~ Jim Rohn.
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one’s nature perfectly – that is what each of us is here for. ~ Oscar Wilde.
When you can’t change the direction of the wind – adjust your sails ~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
All art is immortal. For emotion for the sake of emotion is the aim of art, and emotion for the sake of action is the aim of life. ~ Oscar Wilde
Happiness is a myth we seek, If manifested surely irks; Like river speeding to the plain, On its arrival slows and murks. For man is happy only in His aspiration to the heights; When he attains his goal, he cools And longs for other distant flights. ~ Khalil Gibran.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. ~ Henry Ford
A goal without a plan is just a wish. ~ Larry Elder.
Famous Aim of Life Quotes
The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them. ~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it. ~ Michelangelo.
There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second. ~ Logan Pearsall Smith.
Simple, clear purpose and principles give rise to complex intelligent behavior. Complex rules and regulations give rise to simple stupid behavior. ~ Dee Hock.
You’re never too old to start learning, and you’re never too young to aim high and achieve great things. ~ Asa Hutchinson.
If you learn to set a good sail, the wind that blows will always take you to the dreams you want, the income you want, and the treasures of mind, purse, and soul you want. ~ Jim Rohn.
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind. ~ Seneca the Younger.
A great goal in life is the only fortune worth finding. ~ Jackie Kennedy.
The aim of life was meat. Life itself was meat. Life lived on life. There were the eaters and the eaten. ~ Jack London.
Man’s ideal state is realized when he has fulfilled the purpose for which he is born. And what is it that reason demands of him? Something very easy-that he live in accordance with his own nature. ~ Seneca the Younger
The aims of life are the best defense against death. ~ Primo Levi.
The goal you set must be challenging. At the same time, it should be realistic and attainable, not impossible to reach. It should be challenging enough to make you stretch, but not so far that you break. ~ Rick Hansen.
It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly. Do not mistake activity for achievement. Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs, therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity or undue depression in adversity. ~ Isocrates.
It is in fact the height of selfishness to merely consume what others create and to retreat into a shell of limited goals and immediate pleasures. ~ Robert Greene.
Quotes about Aim of Life
Aim for the sky, but move slowly, enjoying every step along the way. It is all those little steps that make the journey complete. ~ Chanda Kochhar.
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. ~ H. L. Mencken.
Your work is to go forth into this physical environment looking for things that are a vibrational match to joy, connecting to Source Energy, and then following with the inspired action. ~ Esther Hicks.
My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive. ~ Maya Angelou.
The purpose of my work was never to destroy but always to create, to construct bridges, because we must live in the hope that humankind will draw together and that the better we understand each other the easier this will become. ~ Alphonse Mucha.
No one knows where we are going, the aim of life has been forgotten, the end has been left behind. Man has set out at tremendous speed- to go nowhere. ~ Jacques Ellul.
Genuine inner freedom is the ultimate aim of life. It is the unspoken goal of every thought you have and every action you take. ~ David Simon.
Mephistopheles, the machine man, can provide us with all the means, and is thus likely to determine the aims of life as well. But of course the characteristic of Faust, which makes him eligible to be saved, is that he seeks aims that are not those of the machine. ~ Joseph Campbell.
The awakening is the purpose. The awakening of the fact that in essence, we are light, we are love. Each cell of our body, each cell and molecule of everything. The power source that runs all life is light. So to awaken to that knowledge, and to desire to operate in that realm, and to believe that it is possible, are all factors that will put you there. ~ Dolores Cannon
Our goal is not to assume leadership of existing institutions, but rather to render them irrelevant. We don’t want to take over the state or change its policies. We want to render its laws unenforceable. We don’t want to take over corporations and make them more ‘socially responsible.’ We want to build a counter-economy of open-source information, neighborhood garage manufacturing, permaculture, encrypted currency and mutual banks, leaving the corporations to die on the vine along with the state. We do not hope to reform the existing order. We intend to serve as its grave-diggers. ~ Kevin Carson
Look at your life. Look at the ways in which you define who you are and what you’re capable of achieving. Look at your goals. Look at the pressures applied by the people around you and the culture in which you were raised. Look again. And again. Keep looking until you realize, within your own experience, that you’re so much more than who you believe you are. Keep looking until you discover the wondrous heart, the marvelous mind, that is the very basis of your being. ~ Tsoknyi Rinpoche.
Famous Aim of Life Quotes
I usually say the aim of life is to be happy. Our existence is based on hope. Our life is rooted in the opportunity to be happy, not necessarily wealthy, but happy within our own minds. If we only indulge in sensory pleasure, we’ll be little different from animals. In fact, we have this marvelous brain and intelligence; we must learn to use it. ~ Dalai Lama
Most of us are in this more than just for playing soccer. We’re in it for the bigger goal – to move it along for the next generation. ~ Landon Donovan
God has never ceased to be the one true aim of all right human aspirations. ~ Alexandre Vinet
When a child makes a mistake or fails to accomplish a certain goal, we must avoid any word or action which indicates that we consider him a failure. ‘Too bad that didn’t work.’ ‘I’m sorry it didn’t work out for you.’ We need to separate the deed from the doer. ~ Rudolf Dreikurs
An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson
The aim of life is no more to control the mind, but to develop it harmoniously; not to achieve salvation here after, but to make the best use of it here below; and not to realize truth, beauty and good only in contemplation, but also in the actual experience of daily life; social progress depends not upon the ennoblement of the few but on the enrichment of democracy; universal brotherhood can be achieved only when there is an equality of opportunity – of opportunity in the social, political and individual life. ~ Bhagat Singh
A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at. ~ Bruce Lee
The aim of life was meat. Life itself was meat. Life lived on life. There were the eaters and the eaten. The law was: EAT OR BE EATEN. He did not formulate the law in clear, set terms and moralize about it. He did not even think the law; he merely lived the law without thinking about it at all. ~ Jack London
Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination. ~ Carl von Clausewitz
If you aim at nothing, you’ll hit it every time. ~ Zig Ziglar
One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community. ~ Albert Einstein
Always fall in with what you’re asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever’s going. ~ Robert Frost
Failure seems to be regarded as the one unpardonable crime, success as the all-redeeming virtue, the acquisition of wealth as the single worthy aim of life. Ten years ago such revelations as these of the Erie Railway would have sent a shudder through the community, and would have placed a stigma on every man who had had to do them. Now they merely incite others to surpass by yet bolder outrages and more corrupt combinations. ~ Charles Francis Adams, Sr.
My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style. ~ Maya Angelou
You are a mirror of the Almighty…this is the reason you were created…your purpose. ~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. ~ Aristotle
Use me, God. Show me how to take who I am, who I want to be, and what I can do, and use it for a purpose greater than myself. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Civilization tries to persuade us we are going towards something, a distant goal. We have forgotten that our only goal is to live, to live each and every day, and that if we live each and every day, our true goal is achieved. ~ Jean Giono.
Inspirational Aim of Life Quotes
The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world. ~ George Santayana
When the promise is clear, the price gets easy ~ Jim Rohn
Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another. ~ John Dewey
If you want to reach your goals and dreams, you cannot do it without discipline ~ Lee Kuan Yew
As a composer seeking to remain anonymous I am shy of confessing my musical activity. This is intelligible enough. For others it is their chief business, the occupation and aim of life. For me it is a relaxation, a pastime which distracts me from my principal business, my professorship. I love my profession and my science. I love the Academy and my pupils, male and female, because to direct the work of young people, one must be close to them. ~ Alexander Borodin
Aim for the sky and you’ll reach the ceiling. Aim for the ceiling and you’ll stay on the floor. ~ Bill Shankly
Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart; that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical. ~ Margaret Fuller
Money is meant not for hoarding, but for using; the aim of life should be to use it in the right way – to spend as much as we can lawfully spend, both upon ourselves and others. And sometimes it is better to do this in our lifetime, when we can see that it is well spent, than to leave it to the chance spending of those that come after us. ~ Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
To be who you are and become what you are capable of is the only goal worth living. ~ Alvin Ailey
As I make goals for this year… Jesus, let your thoughts become my thoughts and bend my will to Your will. ~ Lysa TerKeurst
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart. ~ Helen Keller
If you don’t take the time to get really clear about exactly what it is you’re trying to accomplish, then you’re forever doomed to spend your life achieving the goals of those who do. ~ Steve Pavlina
Set a goal to achieve something that is so big, so exhilarating that it excites you and scares you at the same time. It must be a goal that is so appealing, so much in line with your spiritual core, that you can’t get it out of your mind. If you do not get chills when you set a goal, your not setting big enough goals. ~ Bob Proctor
I believe there’s a calling for all of us. I know that every human being has value and purpose. The real work of our lives is to become aware. And awakened. To answer the call. ~ Oprah Winfrey
Release and detach from every person, every circumstance, every condition, and every situation that no longer serves a divine purpose in your life. All things have a season, and all seasons must come to an end. Choose a new season, filled with purposeful thoughts and activities. ~ Iyanla Vanzant
No economy, no matter how bad, can hold down a goal that is followed by enough action. ~ Grant Cardone
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware. ~ Henry Miller
I’m always intrigued by my nonsensical concern with picking out a bunch of things that look exactly alike the ones that somehow I feel are the best and belong to me. It’s that same crazy urge or superstition, or whatever it is, that makes me open a Bible in a hotel room, hoping for some great happenstance spiritual word of advice. More often than not, I hit a long passage of begats and begots, which contain little inspiration other than the fact that procreation is the highest aim of life. ~ Vincent Price.
The aim of life is to be fully born, though its tragedy is that most of us die before we are thus born. ~ Erich Fromm.
The goal is to win. It’s not about making money. I have many much less risky ways of making money than this (buying Chelsea football club). I don’t want to throw my money away, but it’s really about having fun and that means success and trophies. ~ Roman Abramovich.
Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence. ~ Aristotle.
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. ~ T. S. Eliot.
