Quotes About Purpose

Atheism in its negation of gods is at the same time the strongest affirmation of man, and through man, the eternal yea to life, purpose, and beauty.

To the aircraft I aim, not the man.

The creative life was the only one for a serious man.

Man Proposeth, God disposeth.

A man of learning who makes no use of what he knows, is like a cloud which gives no rain.

Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.

When this is over, I'm not going to be the same guy. I am going to live as if I were a great man.

Each man has some part to play.

I continue to believe that this world has no ultimate meaning. But I know that something in it has a meaning and that is man, because he is the only creature to insist on having one

Check out not to become a man or woman of achievement, but instead seek to become a particular person of price.

In regard to man's final end, all the higher religions are in complete agreement. The purpose of human life is the discovery of Truth, the unitive knowledge of the Godhead.

A leader should not be a man who arbitrarily imported his own ideas but the essential focal point for a group of people who trusted one another and worked for a common aim.

Nothing is more boring than a man with a career.

So man, who here seems principal alone, Perhaps acts second to some sphere unknown Touches some wheel, or verges to some goal; 'Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.

God orders a man to do all he can to save his life.

In this world, all--men, women, and kings--must live for the present. We can only live for the future for God

Nor at all can tell Whether I mean this day to end myself, Or lend an ear to Plato where he says, That men like soldiers may not quit the post Allotted by the Gods.

A hero holds purposes appropriate to man and is, therefore, a thinker.

The world asks, "What does a man own?"; Christ asks, "How does he use it?"

The grace and beauty of life will be clean gone when we all become useful men.

We can generally read a man's purpose towards us in his manner, if his purposes are of much moment to us.

A man seeking publicity works with the noise of voice; A man working for humanity seeks the silence of rejoice in life.

If a man has directed his course to great ends there is compensation even in ruin.

A man's life is like a well, not like a snake--it should be measured by its depth, not by its length.