Quotes About Purpose

Where man is the end, or the means, all men are mean.

Whatever is is a movement; man is a movement-to something other than man.

The seed must move to the soil; the tree must turn to the sun. The river must leave its source to reach the sea. And man must forget man, the maker, in order to make the world.

The trouble with men is that they are mean-they may mean, but they don't move.

Man is a passion which brings a will into play, which works an intelligence.

It makes no odds where a man goes or stays, if he is only about his business.

The strongest wind cannot stagger a Spirit; it is a Spirit's breath. A just man's purpose cannot be split on any Grampus or material rock, but itself will split rocks till it succeeds.

Shall a man go and hang himself because he belongs to the race of pygmies, and not be the biggest pygmie that he can? Let everyone mind his own business, and endeavor to be what he was made

Men have a singular desire to be good without being good for anything, because, perchance, they think vaguely that so it will be good for them in the end.

A business which exists to make one man or one family rich, and whose existence is of no moment when this is achieved, is not solidly founded.

Man must be doing something, or fancy that he is doing something, for in him throbs the creative impulse; the mere basker in the sunshine is not a natural, but an abnormal man.

Do not be duped by little duties. Do not be a chore man all your days.

Religion is only another word for the right use of a man's whole self, instead of a wrong use of himself.

Man is that name of power which rises above them all, and gives to every one the right to be that which God meant he should be.

It takes a man to make a devil; and the fittest man for such a purpose is a snarling, waspish, red-hot, fiery creditor.

I had grown a thin mustache, I was a full-grown man, and yet I was completely helpless and without a goal in life.

In order to live man must believe in that for which he lives.

For the man who thought he was Man there is no salvation.

It [his brothers assassination] made Robert Kennedy, a man unprepared for introspection, think for the first time in his life, what he wanted to do, and what he stood for.

Man cannot live by profit alone.

There is no escaping, at times, the gloomy suspicion that fiddling with pens and ink is, after all, no fit employment for a grown man.

To the lazy man the world appears bereft of all blessings; if poor, he has no friends; if rich, he has no ambition; he aims at nothing, and generally hits his mark.

Every man has a mission from God to help his fellow beings.

With his head in his hands, God thought and thought, Till he thought: I'll make me a man!