Quotes About Purpose

No wind favors he who has no destined port.

I want us to be doing things, prolonging life's duties as much as we can. I want death to find me planting my cabbages, neither worrying about it nor the unfinished gardening.

The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make to them; a man may live long, yet get little from life. Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will - Montaigne, Essays

The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to live with purpose.

The advantage of living is not measured by length, but by use; some men have lived long, and lived little; attend to it while you are in it. It lies in your will, not in the number of years, for you to have lived enough.

Life should be an aim unto itself, a purpose unto itself.

The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them ~

The ceaseless labor of your life is to build the house of death.

No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.

The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere is to be nowhere.es

Mon métier et mon art c'est vivre. [My craft and my skill is living.]

The usefulness of living lies not in duration but in what you make of it. Some have lived long and lived little. See to it while you are still here. Whether you have lived enough depends not on a count of years but on your will.

Ambition is not a vice of little people.

The greatest and glorious masterpiece of a man is how to live with a purpose.

Bir ?ey yapmad?m ne demek? Ya?ad?n?z ya! Bu sizin yaln?z ba?l?ca i?iniz de?il, en parlak, en ?erefli i?inizdir.

L'utilité du vivre n'est pas en l'espace: elle est en l'usage.

If a man has no heart for either living or dying; if he has no will either to resist or to run away: what are we to do with him?

Hayat?n de?eri uzun ya?anmas?nda de?il, iyi ya?anmas?ndad?r.

Because I must do something while I still can. Each soul is still incalculably precious.

Following dragonflies didn't qualify as a clever or well-thought-out plan of action.

Un solo día dedicado a cosas que no alimentan el espíritu es un día robado, mutilado y arrojado a la alcantarilla del destino.

Like all creatures in the universe, they were only waiting for the elusive light that would grant them purpose.

Granted, he once opined in a Cambridge undergraduate magazine that 'a single day spent doing things which fail to nourish the soul is a day

People know what they do; they frequently know why they do what they do; but what they don't know is what what they do does.