Quotes About Purpose

The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life - he first individualizes.

I will be a man among men; and no longer a dreamer among shadows.

Men live, and then they die. It is the quality of the process of living which matters, that and that alone.

If every man works at that for which nature fitted him, the cows will be well tended.

Man is the being whose project it is to be God.

Worship is ultimate, not missions. Because God is ultimate, not man.

A boy gets to be a man when a man is needed. Remember this thing. I have known boys forty years old because there was no need for a man.

If God were not a necessary Being of Himself, He might almost seem to be made for the use and benefit of men.

I couldn't help wondering if that was what God put me on Earth for--to find out how much a man could take without breaking.

Show me a man or woman with a mission, and I'll show you somebody that's tougher to beat.

Only He who made man makes man happy.

Human values should predominate in men's thoughts. Human life has no meaning without these values.

I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.

Each man has a mission in life, which is the result of all his infinite past Karma.

If a man does not have an ideal and try to live up to it, then he becomes a mean, base and sordid creature, no matter how successful.

Man was made for the highest activity, which is, in fact, his rest.

The real test of a man is not when he plays the role that he wants for himself but when he plays the role destiny has for him.

Men seek fame and high places only to learn that they were happier in obscurity

I insist that the object of all true education is not to make men carpenters, it is to make carpenters men.

When you take of a man's time, you've taken a part of his life.

All men know the utility of useful things; but they do not know the utility of futility.

No man commits evil for the sake of it; even the Devil himself has some farther design in sinning, than barely the wicked part of it.

Men do not invent Myths. They only invent fables, and tell lies. True Myths create themselves, and find their expression in the men who serve their purpose.

The man, most man, works best for men: and, if most man indeed, he gets his manhood plainest from his soul.