Quotes About Purpose

Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves.

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.

Labor, if it were not necessary for existence, would be indispensable for the happiness of man.

God never does anything wrong. He knows what is best for me. No man can understand God, or know why He deals with us as He does.

Could anything be absurder than a man? The animal who knows everything about himself--except why he was born and the meaning of his unique existence.

With out some kind of god, man is not very intresting

The purpose of man is in action not thought.

Neither in tailoring nor in legislating does man proceed by mere accident.

The end of Man is an Action, and not a Thought, though it were the noblest?

No man is born without ambitious worldly desires.

At any moment, man must decide, for better or for worse, what will be the monument of his existence.

A man is a form of life that dreams in order to act and acts in order to dream.

The 'advancing man' in medicine, who holds to a clear mental image of himself as successful, and who obeys the laws of faith, purpose, and gratitude, will cure every curable case he undertakes.

And indeed, no man has found his religion until he has found that for which he must sell his goods and his life.

There's place and means for every man alive.

Every man has business and desire, Such as it is.

A man really and practically looking onwards to an immortal life, on whatever grounds, exhibits to us the human soul in an enobled attitude.

In sum, thought and reflection have been rendered thoroughly pointless by the circumstances in which modern men and women live and act.

No one yet knows what a man's province is, and how far that province, as conceived of today, is artificial.

If purpose, then, is inherent in art, so is it in Nature also. The best illustration is the case of a man being his own physician, for Nature is like that - agent and patient at once.

...for all men do their acts with a view to achieving something which is, in their view, a good.

No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.

Life is a task to be done. It is a fine thing to say defunctus est; it means that the man has done his task.

Nothing is worth anything to dead men.