Quotes About Purpose

Only when men are connected to large, universal goals are they really happy-and one result of their happiness is a rush of creative activity.

Man is programmed to find the programmer.

Man created the checkerboard; God created the karass.

If a man can dream, if a man can have goals, he can be happy and he can be alive. If he has no goals he doesn't even have a future.

At some point, you've got to realize, you're either a leading man or you're not.

Most men are of naught more use in their lives but as machines for turning food into sh*t.

Each man's destiny is hung like a medallion around his neck.

I want to be a good creature for reasons beyond sharing a life with a good man.

Man is a means and not an end, and he is a means to economic or political ends which are not really ends in themselves but means to other ends which in their turn are means and so ad infinitum

I feel as I always have, that the earth is the home and the only home of man, and I am convinced that whatever he is to get out of his existence he must get while he is here.

Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose.

A man has a right to want to live.

Unto the man of yearning thought And aspiration, to do nought Is in itself almost an act.

By the time I'm old, I'm sure I'll have lived a full enough life. I think we're mortal for a reason. Life gets tiring, man!

A man's acts are usually right, but his reasons seldom are.

What frightens me is that men are content with what is not life at all.

And he who lives a hundred years, idle and weak, a life of one day is better if a man has attained firm strength.

There are some men whose only mission among others is to act as intermediaries; one crosses them like bridges and keeps going.

The lot assigned to every man is suited to him, and suits him to itself.

Man was born for two things--thinking and acting.

The man who has submitted his will and purposes entirely to God, carries God with him in all his works and in all circumstances.

Men are just like unlit lamps: in themselves they are no good for anything, but, when lit, they can be handy to have around the house.

The man who actually knows just what he wants in life has already gone a long way toward attaining it.

Let each man pass his days in that endeavor wherein his gift is greatest.