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Looking for deep purpose quotes? This focused collection gathers 21 of the best purpose quotes in a deep spirit, drawn from our full purpose collection. Tap Copy to save your favourites.

A life not lived for others is not a life.

— Mother Teresa

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

Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck, your profession is what you're put here on earth to do.

— Virgil

Life without purpose is meaningless — find yours and the world opens.

Loneliness is not the absence of people, but the absence of meaning.

Good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.

The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.

— Albert Schweitzer

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.

— Leo Tolstoy

If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

— Martin Luther King Jr.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.

— Charles Dickens

What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others.

— Nelson Mandela

Heaven is a place where everybody is doing what they love, with the people they love, for a worthy cause.

Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.

— Leo Tolstoy

Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.

— Muhammad Ali

When you find your purpose, you'll feel it — it will burn inside you like a flame.

The purpose of humanity is to strive for the happiness of all, not the perfection of some.

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honourable, to be compassionate.

Life's most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others?

— Martin Luther King Jr.

Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to.

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.

— Dalai Lama

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