Quotes About Purpose

remember this, that your life is short, your duties many, your assistance great, and your reward sure; therefore faint not, hold on and hold up, in ways of well-doing, and heaven shall make amends for all!

Natura nihil agit frustra, [Nature does nothing in vain] is the only indisputed Axiome in Philosophy.

Now, Joyce being Joyce, he has about five different purposes, one not being enough for genius.

Do you know that I have undergone three quarters of this labour entirely for the sake of the fourth quarter?

The perfect woman, you see [is] a working-woman; not an idler; not a fine lady; but one who [uses] her hands and her head and her heart for the good of others.

So that, whatever the stars were made for, they were not made to please our eyes. It is just the same in everything; nothing is made for man.

Let me enjoy the earth no less because the all-enacting light that fashioned forth its loveliness had other aims than my delight.

But it was also obvious that man could not live by work alone; that the particular man Jude, at any rate, wanted something to love.

And all this while the subtle-souled girl asking herself why she was born, why sitting in a room, and blinking at the candle; why things around her had taken the shape they wore in preference to every other possible shape.

She saw that he had singled her out from the three, as a woman is singled out in such cases, for no reasoned purpose of further acquaintance, but in commonplace obedience to conjunctive orders from headquarters, unconsciously received by unfortunate men when the last intention of their lives is to be occupied with the feminine.

Like a certain philosopher I would, upon my soul, have all young men from eighteen to twenty-five kept under barrels; seeing how often, in the lack of some such sequestering process, the woman sits down before each as his destiny, and too frequently enervates his purpose, till he abandons the most promising course ever conceived!

Your next world is your next world, and not to be squandered offhand.

The 'appetite for joy' which pervades all creation, that tremendous force which sways humanity to its purpose, as the ride sways the helpless weed, was not to be controlled by vague lucubrations over the social rubric

Ah, want of an object to live for - that's all is the matter with me!

But what is Wisdom really? A steady handling of any means to bring about any end necessary to happiness. Yet whether one's end be the usual end — a wealthy position in life — or no, the name of wisdom is seldom applied but to the means to that usual end.

ThÆ°Æ¡ng thay nh?ng k? om sòm ?i tìm ng?n lá»­a thiêu mòn th? gian L?i không hi?u ???c cho tròn CÆ¡n s?t g?y mòn là ng?n lá»­a kia ?

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That which struck the present writer most forcibly on his first perusal of the 'Origin of Species' was the conviction that Teleology, as commonly understood, had received its deathblow at Mr. Darwin 's hands. For the teleological argument runs thus: an organ or organism (A) is precisely fitted to perform a function or purpose (B); therefore it was specially constructed to perform that function.

Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture and very much to our credit.

According to Teleology, each organism is like a rifle bullet fired straight at a mark; according to Darwin, organisms are like grapeshot of which one hits something and the rest fall wide.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action. Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.

Respice finem; that is to say, in all your actions, look often upon what you would have, as the thing that directs all your thoughts in the way to attain it.

set of daily, weekly, monthly, annual, and lifetime goals

At thirty a man steps out of the darkness and wasteland of preparation into active life it is the time to show oneself, the time of fulfillment.