Quotes About Purpose

A man without passion would be like a body without a soul. Or even more grotesque, like a soul without a body.

Man was created to complete the horse.

That in the human plan nothing is worth the making if it does not make the man.

If men will not act for themselves, what will they do when the benefit of their effort is for all?

Life belongs to man, but the meaning of life is beyond him.

Man's chief goal in life is still to become and stay human, and defend his achievements against the encroachment of nature.

Just as a man does not desire food until he is hungry, so does he not desire the salvation of Christ until he knows why he needs Christ.

I think my purpose was just to get out and sing. I love to sing. I wasn't even in it for the - you know, the prize. I was, like, 'Hey, man, I'm going to sing.

Our true destiny is not to be ministered unto but to minister to ourselves and to our fellow men.

Only so far as a man believes strongly, mightily, can he act cheerfully, or do anything that is worth doing.

Heroism--that is the disposition of a man who aspires to a goal compared to which he himself is wholly insignificant. Heroism is the good will to self-destruction.

Man would sooner have the Void for his purpose than be void of Purpose.

If we have our own why of life, we shall get along with almost any how. Man does not strive for pleasure; only the Englishman does.

When man does not have firm, calm lines on the horizon of his life- mountain and forest lines, as it were- then a man's innermost will becomes agitated, preoccupied, and wistful.

I want to teach men the sense of their existence, which is the Superman, the lightning out of the dark cloud man.

Whoever does not know how to find the way to his ideal lives more frivolously and impudently than the man without an ideal.

Without a clear perception of his reasons for living, man will never consent to live, and will rather destroy himself than tarry on earth, though he be surrounded with bread".

For men are made for happiness, and any one who is completely happy has a right to say to himself, 'I am doing God's will on earth.'

It is necessary that every man have at least somewhere to go. For there are times when one absolutely must go at least somewhere!

Angels play a very active role in the purposes of God and the affairs of men, but do not control human events or violate the free will of human beings.

Ek gret effect men write in place lite; Th'entente is al, and nat the lettres space.

Truly, men make too little use of their lives; and so it is no wonder that the world should still be in such a poor way.

It is in the hour of trial that a man finds his true profession.

The school depends not on man, or any set of men. God planted it, and we are but gardeners to take care of it.