Quotes About Purpose

No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There's too much work to do.

Do noble things, do not dream them all day long.

I myself must mix with action, lest I wither by despair.

This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

The end of man is action.

Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.

If you have something to do that is worthwhile doing, don't talk about it ... do it.

One's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into action ... which bring results.

A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.

We must not waste life in devising means. It is better to plan less and do more.

It is in your act that you exist, not in your body. Your act is yourself, and there is no other you.

Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

It's where we go, and what we do when we get there, that tells us who we are.

To do is to be.

To be is to do.

To be busy with material affairs is the best preservative against reflection, fears, doubts ... all these things which stand in the way of achievement. I suppose a fellow proposing to cut his throat would experience a sort of relief while occupied in stropping his razor carefully.

Action is the antidote to despair.

Action is the only reality; not only reality, but morality as well.

For purposes of action, nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.

Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act.

The significance of a man is not in what he attains but rather in what he longs to attain.

Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.

Well is it known that ambition can creep as well as soar.

You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.