Quotes About Purpose

Pleasures and pains must have been evolved as the subjective accompaniment of processes which are respectively beneficial or injurious to the organism, and so evolved the purpose or to the end that the organism should seek the one and shun the other.

Desires must be simple and definite. They defeat their own purpose should they be too many, too confusing, or beyond a man's training to accomplish.

Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning.

Better to fight for something than live for nothing.

A man must know his destiny… if he does not recognize it, then he is lost. By this I mean, once, twice, or at the very most, three times, fate will reach out and tap a man on the shoulder… if he has the imagination, he will turn around and fate will point out to him what fork in the road he should take, if he has the guts, he will take it.

One approaches the journey's end. But the end is a goal, not a catastrophe.

Art for art's sake is an empty phrase. Art for the sake of truth, art for the sake of the good and the beautiful, that is the faith I am searching for.

Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.

Sanity is madness put to good uses.

Fanaticism consists in redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.

Before he sets out, the traveler must possess fixed interests and facilities to be served by travel.

Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.

Sanity is a madness put to good use.

Music is essentially useless, as life is.

In his biggest sacrifices, man finds the biggest fulfillment

Sanity is a madness put to good uses; waking life is a dream controlled.

Why were we put here, so inclined to love, when end of our story = death? That harsh. That cruel. Do not like.

Each of us earns his death, his own death, which belongs to no one else and this game is life.

There are as many reasons for running as there are days in the year, years in my life. But mostly I run because I am an animal and a child, an artist and a saint. So, too, are you. Find your own play, your own self-renewing compulsion, and you will become the person you are meant to be.

If you think that life has passed you by, or, even worse, that you are living someone else's life, you can still prove the experts wrong. T

Today's work does not make us the persons we can be. Work is simply the price to be paid. Having earned our daily bread, we can turn to our daily play.

Only a sense of humor can help each of us face those great unanswerable questions: Why was I born? Why am I here? Why must I die? What must I do to make my life a triumph? —

I am, therefore I write.

If leadership requires a fired-up sense of purpose and imagination, it also demands a profound connection to the society to be led. Like it or not, this is our culture, and we should embrace and celebrate it, even while we strive to refine and shape it.