Quotes About Purpose

The man without religion is as a ship without a rudder.

Art is man determined to die sane.

The wise man thinks about his troubles only when there is some purpose in doing so; at other times he thinks about other things, or, if it is night, about nothing at all.

The modern man thinks that everything ought to be done for the sake of something else, and never for its own sake.

Why does man create? Is it man's purpose on earth to express himself, to bring form to thought, and to discover meaning in experience? Or is it just something to do when he's bored?

All men seek happiness. There are no exceptions.... This is the motive of every act of every man, including those who go and hang themselves.

All is one, all is different. How many natures exist in man? How many vocations? And by what chance does each man ordinarily choose what he has heard praised?

The end of all activity in the church is to see that a man and a woman with their children are happy at home, sealed for eternity.

The God gives simpler problems to lesser men.

An unfulfilled life makes a hard man.

You would not call a man humane for ceasing to set mousetraps if he did so because he believed there were no mice in the house.

The pursuit of excellence is the proper vocation of man.

A man whose yesterdays rest on his horizon travels forward into his past. The result is that he goes a very long way to nowhere.

Everything is a trifle to a man who is a Christian except the glorifying of Christ

It is our duty and our privilege to exhaust our lives for Jesus. We are not to be living specimens of men in fine preservation, but living sacrifices, whose lot is to be consumed

The purpose of man is like the purpose of a pollywog - to wiggle along as far as he can without dying; or, to hang to life until death takes him.

Men, who achieve much, die as do those who achieve nothing.

Every branch of knowledge which a good man possesses, he may apply to some good purpose.

I do not understand men. They spend their lives to use their health to make money and then they spend their money to restore their health.

Until man is nothing, God can make nothing of him. - Martin Luther

A man who thinks he has a higher purpose can do terrible things, even to those he professes to love.

Diogenes lighted a candle in the daytime, and went round saying, "I am looking for a man.

The substance of man cannot be measured by Gross National Product.

A man does not fight to win; it is better to fight in vain.