Quotes About Purpose

The purpose of man's life...is to become an abject zombie who serves a purpose he does not know, for reasons he is not to question.

The most depraved type of human being ... (is) the man without a purpose.

We were made to be neither cerebral men nor visceral men, but Men. Not beasts nor angels but Men - things at once rational and animal.

If a man knew how to live he would never die.

There's some end at last for the man who follows a path; mere rambling is interminable.

These tasks, and therefore the meaning of life, differ from man to man, and from moment to moment. Thus it is impossible to define the meaning in life in a general way.

Your destiny is that of a man, your vows those of a god.

Now the answer ... is plain, but it is so unpalatable that most men will not face it. There is no reason for life and life has no meaning.

Life is simply time given to man to learn how to live.

We bow our heads before Thee, and we laud, And magnify thy name Almighty God! But man is thy most awful instrument, In working out a pure intent.

To be good is not enough; a man must be good for something

All the wide world is but the husbandry of God for the development of the one fruit-man.

Some men think that the globe is a sponge that God puts into their hands to squeeze for their own garden or flower-pot.

Every man's life is a plan of God.

It is the man that makes the motive, and not the motive the man.

Some men are born committed to action: they do not have a choice, they have been thrown on a path, at the end of that path, an act awaits them, their act.

There is nothing scarier than a mediocre man with a mission.

Man ought always to have something that he prefers to life; otherwise life itself will seem to him tiresome and void.

To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.

How many years must a man do nothing, before he can at all know what is to be done and how to do it!

All men were created to busy themselves with the labor for the common good.

Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay To mould me man? Did I solicit thee From darkness to promote me?

Man is a living duty, a depository of powers that he must not leave in a brute state. Man is a wing.

Happy is the man who can do only one thing; in doing it, he fulfills his destiny.