TEENS' WITH PURPOSE......you've got to read this

Strong reasons make strong actions. William Shakespeare 

Destiny is not a matter of chance, it’s a matter of choice; it’s not a thing to be waited for, but a thing to be achieved. William Jennings Bryan

The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it. William James

It’s not enough merely to exist. It’s not enough to say, “I’m earning enough to live and support my family. I do my work well. I’m a good father. I’m a good  husband.” That’s all very well. BUT YOU MUST DO SOMETHING MORE! Every man has to seek in his own way to make his own self more noble and to realize his own true worth. You must give some time to your fellowman. Do something for those who have need of help, something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it. For remember, you don’t live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too. Dr. Albert Schweitzer

He who would do some great thing in this short life must apply himself to work with such a concentration of their forces as, to idle spectators, who live only to amuse themselves, looks like insanity. Parkman

The men who try to do something and fail are definitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed. David Lloyd Jones

Make all you can, save all you can, give all you can. John Wesley

You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through. Rosalynn Carter

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give. Sir Winston Churchill

The longer I live, the more deeply I am convinced that which makes the difference between one man and another – between the weak and the powerful, the great and the insignificant – is energy, invincible determination, a purpose once formed and then death or victory. Powell Buxton

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure. Helen Keller

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.... Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Helen Keller

He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose. Jim Elliot

Wherever you are, be all there. Live to the hilt every situation you believe to be the will of God. Jim Elliot

I may no longer depend on pleasant impulses to bring me before the Lord. I must rather respond to principles I know to be right, whether I feel them to be enjoyable or not. Jim Elliot

Rest in this – it is His business to lead, command, impel, send, call or whatever you want to call it. It is your business to obey, follow, move, respond, or what have you. Jim Elliot

There is great meaning in life for those who are willing to journey. Jim Elliot

God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please; you can never have both. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself. Joseph Campbell

The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were. John F. Kennedy

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. Martin Luther King Jr.

Cowardice asks the question - is it safe?
Expediency asks the question - is it politic?
Vanity asks the question - is it popular?
But conscience asks the question - is it right?
And there comes a time when one must take a position
that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular;
but one must take it because it is right.
Martin Luther King Jr.

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. Martin Luther King Jr.

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just. Abraham Lincoln

Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes. Benjamin Disraeli

The secret of success is constancy of purpose. Benjamin Disraeli

Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sun-dial in the shade? Benjamin Franklin

If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are rotten, either write things worth reading or do things worth the writing. Benjamin Franklin

Live for something, have a purpose,
And that purpose keep in view;
Drifting like a helpless vessel,
Thou canst ne’er to life be true.
Half the wrecks that strew life’s ocean,
If some chart had been their guide,
Might have long been riding safely,
But they drifted with the tide.
Robert Whitaker

Look out for the man who is indifferent to his own success but strong for the success of the thing that he represents. Stand out of his way, for behind him are the thoughts of the Almighty. Woodrow Wilson

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