Quotes About Purpose

God asks no man whether he will accept life. This is not the choice. You must take it. The only question is how.

For so must it be, and help me do my part.

Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.

I am not built for academic writings. Action is my domain.

A = r + p (or Adventure equals risk plus purpose.)

Trust in God and do something.

God alone can finish.

I began to have an idea of my life, not as the slow shaping of achievement to fit my preconceived purposes, but as the gradual discovery and growth of a purpose which I did not know.

The best direction is the least possible direction.

Here am I; send me.

I am like a little pencil in God's hand. He does the writing. The pencil has nothing to do with it.

The soul will take that love and put it where it can best be used.

God's will is not an itinerary, but an attitude.

So much to do; so little done.

Even in the deepest sinking there is the hidden purpose of an ultimate rising. Thus it is for all men, from none is the source of light withheld unless he himself withdraws from it. Therefore the most important thing is not to despair.

This struggle of people against their conditions, this is where you find the meaning in life.

He had come to that time in his life (it varies for every man) when a human being gives himself over to his demon or to his genius, according to a mysterious law which orders him either to destroy or to surpass himself.

It is not death that a man should fear, he should fear never beginning to live.

Death does not frighten me, but dying obscurely and above all uselessly does.

To live your life in the fear of losing it is to lose the point of life.

Some are born to sweet delight, Some are born to endless night.

When I was born I did lament and cry And now each day doth shew the reason why.

One of the worst forms of mental suffering is boredom, not knowing what to do with oneself and one's life. Even if man had no monetary, or any other reward, he would be eager to spend his energy in some meaningful way because he could not stand the boredom which inactivity produces.

Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?