Quotes About Purpose

As for boredom ... I notice that it leaves me as soon as I am doing something that has got to be done.

Man doth not live by bread only.

Labour is not a commodity, or a standard, or a means to an ulterior end, but an end in itself.

It is in changing that things find purpose.

For many are called, but few are chosen.

A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.

To be a man is to feel that one's own stone contributes to building the edifice of the world.

Now I am steel-set: I follow the call to the clear radiance and glow of the heights.

Men, like snails, lose their usefulness when they lose direction and begin to bend.

The height of your accomplishments will equal the depth of your convictions.

The dedicated life is the life worth living.

This one thing I do ... I press toward the mark.

Purity of heart is to will one thing.

It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment.

Those who serve a cause are not those who love that cause. They are those who love the life which has to be led in order to serve it - except in the case of the very purest, and they are rare.

The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.

The life of the creative man is led, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.

An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.

The End of every maker is himself.

You were placed on this earth to create, not to compete.

Think that day lost whose (low) descending sun Views from thy hand no noble action done.

Human life consists in mutual service. No grief, pain, misfortune, or 'broken heart' is excuse for cutting off one's life while any power of service remains. But when all usefulness is over, when one is assured of an unavoidable and imminent death, it is the simplest of human rights to choose a quick and easy death in place of a slow and horrible one.

You are the one who must choose your place.

Living is a constant process of deciding what we are going to do.