Quotes About Purpose

Any talent that we are born with eventually surfaces as a need.

Everything keeps its best nature only by being put to its best use.

Are you doing the kind of work you were built for, so that you can expect to be able to do very large amounts of that kind and thrive under it? Or are you doing a kind of which you can do comparatively little?

The high prize of life, the crowning fortune of a man, is to be born with a bias to some pursuit which finds him in employment and happiness.

The road to happiness lies in two simple principles: find what interests you and that you can do well, and put your whole soul into it-every bit of energy and ambition and natural ability you have.

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he to be at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be.

What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Man is not born to solve the problems of the universe, but to find out what he has to do ... within the limits of his comprehension.

The weakest among us has a gift, however seemingly trivial, which is peculiar to him and which worthily used will be a gift also to his race.

Do what you love, the money will follow.

You must be holy in the way God asks you to be holy. God does not ask you to be a Trappist monk or a hermit. He wills that you sanctify your everyday life.

The first duty of a human being is to assume the right relationship to society-more briefly, to find your real job, and do it.

If Heaven made him, earth can find some use for him.

Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants, lives so as to give a meaning and a value to his own life.

If we are intended for great ends, we are called to great hazards.

The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath.

I would live to study, not study to live.

Science must constantly be reminded that her purposes are not the only purposes and that the order of uniform causation which she has use for, and is therefore right in postulating, may be enveloped in a wider order, on which she has no claim at all.

Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered; it is something moulded.

If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.

Every man must at last accept himself for his portion, and learn to do his work with the tools and talents with which he has been endowed.

To find the good life you must become yourself.

A sobering thought: what if, right at this very moment, I am living up to my full potential?

Shall a man go and hang himself because he belongs to the race of pygmies, and not be the biggest pygmy that he can?