Quotes About Purpose

It is a great thing to have a big brain, a fertile imagination, grand ideals, but the man with these, bereft of a good backbone, is sure to serve no useful end.

Man's main concern is not to gain pleasure or to avoid pain but rather to see a meaning in his life.

Millions do not always add up to what a man needs out of life.

What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualizat ion.

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.

Happy is the man who can make a living by his hobby

A man must know his destiny. if he does not recognize it, then he is lost.

The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less.

If a man tried to take his time on earth and prove before he died, what one man's life could be worth, well I wonder what would happen to this world?

Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.

If you make yourself more than just a man, if you devote yourself to an ideal, you become something else entirely.

This was the purpose of the whole creation, that man should recognize and know Him and give praise to His Name.

Every man is born with the ability to do something well. This is what the Lord intended him to do. Using that ability - what life is all about.

Does the Lord intend to make man happy? Sure... but it's a byproduct, not a prime product.

If you ain't using all the talents God provided you with For the betterment of Man, understand, You ain't nothing but a waste.

The secret of the Christian's passion is simple: Everything we do in life we do it as to the Lord and not to men.

The central conception of Man in the Gospels is that he is an unfinished creation capable of reaching a higher level by a definite evolution which must begin by his own efforts.

Here is the manliness of manhood, that a man has a good reason for what he does, and has a will in doing it.

A man must live like a great brilliant flame and burn as brightly as he can. In the end he burns out. But this is far better than a mean little flame.

To serve the Word is to fulfill the highest function of which man is capable.

If we do not catch men, we are in great danger of losing even the desire to catch them. Our purposed activity is in peril of becoming a dream.

Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.

...a man does not die for business, but for ideals.

If a man can reach the latter days of his life with his soul intact, he has mastered life.