Quotes About Purpose

Ambition can creep as well as soar.

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought.

The fundamental magic of flying is a miracle that has nothing to do with any of its practical purposes - purposes of speed, accessibility and convenience - and will not change as they change.

Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted?

God made me on a morning when he had nothing else to do.

Do not commit the error, common among the young, of assuming that if you cannot save the whole of mankind you have failed.

Every why hath a wherefore.

Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire.

You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to live.

Live as you will wish to have lived when you are dying.

Of all the paths a man could strike into, there is, at any given moment, a best path ... a thing which, here and now, it were of all things wisest for him to do ... to find this path, and walk in it, is the one thing needful for him.

To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problem of contentment.

Let them know a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.

Only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find his right road.

Those who love a cause are those who love the life which has to be led in order to serve it.

Do you know that disease and death must needs overtake us, no matter what we are doing? ... What do you wish to be doing when it overtakes you?... If you have anything better to be doing when you are so overtaken, get to work on that.

Follow your bliss. Find where it is and don't be afraid to follow it.

To have no set purpose in one's life is harlotry of the will.

Seek out that particular mental attitude which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, "This is the real me," and when you have found that attitude, follow it.

The possibilities are unlimited as long as you are true to your life's purpose.

In the world to come they will not ask me, "Why were you not Moses?" They will ask me, "Why were you not Zusya?"

Follow what you love! Don't deign to ask what "they" are looking for out there. Ask what you have inside. Follow not your interests, which change, but what you are and what you love, which will and should not change.

All men have happiness as their object: there is no exception. However different the means they employ, they aim at the same end.

It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires.