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Quotes About Purpose

When God at first made man, Having a glass of blessings standing by, 'Let us,'said he,'pour on him all we can: Let the world's riches, which disperse' d lie, Contract into a span'.
~ George Herbert
A wise man needes not blush for changing his purpose.
~ George Herbert
Every man must die, Jon Snow. But first he must live.
~ George R. R. Martin
God created man to share friendship with Him and share in His happiness.
~ Greg Koukl
I didn't want to make a man the No. 1 quest in my life.
~ Linda Evans
Perhaps the early grave Which men weep over may be meant to save.
~ Lord Byron
Every man's life is, consciously or unconsciously, a quest for the infinite and the eternal reality.
~ Lyman Abbott
It is satisfaction to a man to do the proper works of a man.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Understand however that every man is worth just so much as the things are worth about which he busies himself.
~ Marcus Aurelius
A man's happiness,-to do the things proper to man.
~ Marcus Aurelius
I am called to man's labour; why then do I make a difficulty if I am going out to do what I was born to do and what I was brought into the world for?
~ Marcus Aurelius
The man of science dissects the statement, verifies the facts, and demonstrates connection even where he cannot its purpose.
~ Margaret Fuller
I wonder if God created man because He was disappointed with the monkey.
~ Mark Twain
No man that has ever lived has done a thing to please God--primarily. It was done to please himself, then God next.
~ Mark Twain
If a man hasn't found anything worth dying for, he hasn't anything worth living for.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
A man who hasn't found anything he'd die for doesn't deserve to live.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Unless man anchors the real love, man will always drift in the middle of nowhere!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Life is meaningless; man's biggest challenge is to make it meaningful!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
To die for a cause is insanity; man's greatest cause is to live; his biggest purpose is to stay alive! Only fools die for a cause! Which cause can be superior to man's life?
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
No man can go to Heaven, but everyman can build one!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Horses are not for riding! They do not exist for riding! Horse riding is man's invention! It is the making up of human benefit!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
In the eye of the universe, man is nothing! And man's hardest job is to be able to get rid of this nothingness!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
..a man may live long, yet live very little. Satisfaction in life depends not on the number of your years, but on your will.
~ Michel de Montaigne
The great and glorious masterpiece of men is to live to the point. All other things-to reign, to hoard, to build-are, at most, but inconsiderable props and appendages.
~ Michel de Montaigne