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Quotes About Purpose

Apa gunanya memiliki kemampuan, Dokter, kalau tak ada tempat untuk melampiaskannya?
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Se muoio domani, cosa abbastanza probabile, morirò sapendo che la mia missione in questo mondo è stata assolta, e bene. Sono morti per mano mia. Non ho altre speranze o desideri.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
For some reason altogether beyond our conception - and man may have been a mere accident, a by-product evolved in the process. It is as if the scum upon the surface of the ocean imagined that the ocean was created in order to produce and sustain it or a mouse in a cathedral thought that the building was its own proper ordained residence.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Surely the game is hardly worth the candle.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Desultory readers are seldom remarkable for the exactness of their learning. No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Why should you go further in it? What have you to gain from it?' 'What, indeed? It is art for art's sake, Watson. I suppose when you doctored, you found yourself studying cases without thought of a fee?' 'For my education, Holmes.' 'Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons with the greatest for the last.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Desultory readers are seldom remarkable for the exactness of their learning. No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
There lies the image of our past and of our future, cried Alleyne, as they rode on upon their way. Now, which is better, to till God's earth, to have happy faces round one's knee, and to love and be loved, or to sit forever moaning over one's own soul, like a mother over a sick babe?
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Mi cerebro es como un motor en marcha, que se destroza porque no esta embragado a la máquina para la que fue construido.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
No human actions are truly random
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
I expect you to go through life with your eyes open! If you keep your destiny in mind, every moment in life becomes an opportunity for moving closer to it.
~ Arthur Golden
And yet if I drew my thoughts back from him, what life would I have? I would be like a dancer who had practiced since childhood for a performance she would never give.
~ Arthur Golden
Because I'd lived through adversity once before, what I learned about myself was like a reminder of something I'd once known but had nearly forgotten-namely, that beneath the elegant clothing, and the accomplished dancing, and the clever conversation, my life had no complexity at all, but was as simple as a stone falling toward the ground. My whole purpose in everything during the past ten years had been to win the affections of the Chairman.
~ Arthur Golden
Ako uvijek imaš na umu svoju sudbinu, na svaki ?eš trenutak u životu gledati kao na priliku da se malo više približiš svome cilju.
~ Arthur Golden
No puedes pretender que careces de toda influencia. Tienes la obligación de utilizar toda la influencia que tengas, a no ser que quieras ir a la deriva por la vida, como un pez panza arriba llevado por la corriente.
~ Arthur Golden
Every man has his destiny. But who needs to go to a fortune-teller to find it?
~ Arthur Golden
What standards are those, really? I expect you to go through life with your eyes open! If you keep your destiny in mind, every moment in life becomes an opportunity for moving closer to it.
~ Arthur Golden
The less consciously we drift with the wind, the more willingly we do it; the more consciously, the less willingly.
~ Arthur Koestler
Tardé muchos años en descubrir que el inquieto viajero solo tenía una meta: huir de sí mismo
~ Arthur Koestler
I believe in work. If somebody doesn't create something, however small it may be, he gets sick. An awful lot of people feel that they're treading water -- that if they vanished in smoke, it wouldn't mean anything at all in this world. And that's a despairing and destructive feeling. It'll kill you.
~ Arthur Miller
If you believe that life is worth living then your belief will create the fact.
~ Arthur Miller
I get here, and I don't know what to do with myself. I've always made a point of not wasting my life, and every time I come back here I know that all I've done is to waste my life
~ Arthur Miller
HAPPY: All right, boy. I'm gonna show you and everybody else that Willy Loman did not die in vain. He had a good dream. It's the only dream you can have-- to come out number-one man.
~ Arthur Miller
I don't know what the future is. I don't know-what I'm supposed to want.
~ Arthur Miller