Quotes About Purpose

God worked in mysterious ways; Lincoln wasn't perfect, but he was perfectly suited to his task. "Taking him for all in all, measuring the tremendous magnitude of the work before him, considering the necessary means to ends, and surveying the end from the beginning, infinite wisdom has seldom sent any man into the world better fitted for his mission than Abraham Lincoln.

The sight of big ships, of the many new uniforms, at once serious and cool, left Bush with an overall sense of the navy's power and camaraderie and purpose.

Why do people have to live like animals, eating and reproducing, possessed by the instinct for survival? What point is there in having a dozen sons if your own life is miserable and senseless?

He belonged to the men who have cared for great things, not to bring themselves honor, but because doing great things could alone satisfy their natures.

Watching Jamila sometimes made me think the world was divided into three sorts of people: those who knew what they wanted to do; those (the unhappiest) who never knew what their purpose in life was; and those who found out later on. I was in the last category, I reckoned, which didn't stop me wishing I'd been born into the first.

Men, though they must die, are not born in order to die but in order to begin.

The need of reason is not inspired by the quest for truth but by the quest for meaning. And truth and meaning are not the same.

Je?eli stosujemy przemoc jako ?rodek maj?cy prowadzi? do celu, cel ten czasami si? zmienia lub nigdy nie zostaje osi?gni?ty.

Therefore, nothing happens in the world by chance. This having been established, it seems to follow that whatever is done in the world is done partly by divine agency and partly by our will.

It's not Prayer that changes God...no, it changes us, and therein lies its glory and it's purpose.

Dios nos ha hecho para sí, y nuestros corazones nunca encontrarán reposo y satisfacción perfecta hasta que no lo encuentren en Él.

In my life's chain of events nothing was accidental. Everything happened according to an inner need.

In the mountains one involuntarily hears the query: Where shall I send you? And the answer, Send me to serve the beautiful and good!

Something is making this happen, she'd thought. The whole world is alive and moving and I was meant to be here doing exactly this.

Having a talent isn't worth much unless you know what to do with it.

Some are created for beauty, and some for use; and there are some which one can do without altogether.

Some will come and say: That's how it always is, and this is what it means to be male: we have to destroy in order to create. But what if the earth were to say: I gave birth to you because I longed to be more than earth. Where now is your deed?

Big Idea: Where there is no vision, the people don't follow. It is as simple as that. Vision for a better future, conveyed with genuine passion, is the great motivator.

Even manifestly senseless suffering and death can have a meaning, can acquire a meaning. a hidden meaning.

What's the point of getting up in the morning unless you're gonna have an adventure? As the moments of our life are ticking away you have to be aware that it needs to be an adventure

Ambition is natural when you don't have anything. You know what you're driving for.

When you can see the stakes, when you realize the true purpose of your mission, it motivates you. It makes you focus. It makes you push away the distractions. You gain clarity of purpose. You gain strength.

It's important to like what you're doing. Choosing a profession is the most important decision you'll ever make—more important even than choosing a spouse.

We are nothing. Man. Nothing. Yet we feel as though we are special. We think we matter or that God considers us his favorites. What a laugh.