Quotes About Purpose

There is not a man born among us who dreams—at first—of service, although in the end, many are bent that way.

Was man made for science, or was science made for man?

But man, because he has only one life to live, cannot conduct experiments to test whether to follow his passion (compassion) or not.

There is a reason God limits man's days.

God had no problem with the man's separateness, his uniqueness, or his wholeness.

The space that every man occupies in the world is measured by the faith he expresses in connection with his aims and purposes.

The soul of man createth its own destiny.

I would like it to be said: here lies a man who has done his duty on earth

What's to be the reason for becoming man and wife, is it love that brings you here, or love that gives you life?

A man only has a soul to be won or lost.

When a man forgets his ideals he may hope for happiness, but not till then.

It is not without a purpose when a rich man greets a poor one with kindness.

Man has been lent, not given, to life.

The world has been made by fools that wise men may live in it.

Every man is not so much a workman in the world as he is a suggestion of that he should be. Men walk as prophecies of the next age.

Every man has a vocation. The talent is the call.

A cultivated man, wise to know and bold to perform, is the end to which nature works.

A man is a beggar who only lives to the useful, and, however he may serve as a pin or rivet in the social machine, cannot be saidto have arrived at self-possession.

No man who has managed to keep out of an office can be called a failure in life.

Until he has been part of a cause larger than himself, no man is truly whole.

When a man loses his vision of the future he dies.

Every instance of a man's suffering the penalty of the law is an instance of the failure of that penalty in effecting its purpose, which is to deter.

Each must in virtue strive for to excel; That man lives twice that lives the first life well.

Hell of a thing when a man's got good health, plenty of money and absolutely nothing to do.