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Quotes About Purpose

Every man and woman is born into the world to do something unique and something distinctive and if he or she does not do it, it will never be done.
~ Benjamin E. Mays
The purpose of architecture is to shelter and enhance man's life on earth and to fulfill his belief in the nobility of his existence.
~ Eero Saarinen
Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself. [It is a matter of choice, not chance.] Such is the first principle of existentialism.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
There are many things given to us in this life for the wrong reasons. What we do with such blessings, that is the true test of a man.
~ Gannicus
Happiness is man's greatest aim in life. Tranquility and rationality are the cornerstones of happiness.
~ Epicurus
Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.
~ Socrates
My ancestors were Brahmins. They spent their lives in search of god. I am spending my life in search of man.
~ Muhammad Iqbal
Man intends one thing, but Allah intends another.
~ Khalid ibn al-Walid
Man's thought is always of the punishment that will come to him if he sins. But God's thought is always of the glory man will miss if he sins. God's purpose for redemption is glory, glory, glory.
~ Watchman Nee
A man is a man, until that man finds a plan, a plan that makes that man, a new man
~ Dred Scott
Most men are essentially dead by thirty.
~ Romain Rolland
Don't go to men who are willing to kill themselves driving in circles looking for normality.
~ James Hunt
Every man gives his life for what he believes ... one life is all we have to live and we live it according to what we believe.
~ Joan of Arc
Boys, be ambitious. Be ambitious not for money, not for selfish aggrandizement, not for the evanescent thing which men call fame. Be ambitious for the attainment of all that a man can be.
~ William Clark
A BROKE MAN IS NOT A MAN WITHOUT A NICKLE, BUT A MAN WITHOUT A DREAM
~ Jesse Duplantis
A poor man is not the one without a cent. A poor man is the one without a dream.
~ Henry Ford
The man don't make the vision; the vision makes the man.
~ David Yonggi Cho
We are vanishing from the earth, yet I cannot think we are useless or else Usen would not have created us. He created all tribes of men and certainly had a righteous purpose in creating each.
~ Geronimo
Man is the only animal that must be encouraged to live.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
A man on a mission is far different from a drone on a deadline.
~ Rheta Grimsley Johnson
Dream and deed are not as different as many think. All the deeds of men are dreams at first, and become dreams in the end.
~ Theodor Herzl
The man who is happy is fulfilling the purpose of existence
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
Great men are meteors designed to burn so that earth may be lighted.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.
~ Fidel Castro