Quotes About Purpose

Man is not made to understand life, but to live it.

The man who loves his job never works a day in his life.

Men die the way they lived.

God has made all men to be happy.

Why do people embrace God? In my opinion, belief in God and an afterlife is a necessary extension of man's need to feel that this life does not end with what we call death.

The wind is not helpless for any man's need, Nor falleth the rain but for thistle and weed.

A man's greatest care should be for that place where he lives longest; therefore eternity should be his scope.

Why seeketh thou revenge, O man! with what purpose is it that thou pursuest it? Thinkest thou to pain thine adversary by it? Know that thou thyself feelest its greatest torments.

There is a verse [in the Koran] that says God swears by time. Anything you gain in life, you pay for with your time. Time is the most important thing that has been given to man.

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Down to earth advice about the path that leads away from the kingdom of the hollow men.

A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason. Let us be like the man of the frontier and always reveal with utmost honesty our real reasons for all that we do.

To die is nothing. One is here, one is no longer here. It is only at the end one must be able to say 'I was a man'.

No man can be ideally successful until he has found his place. Like a locomotive he is strong on the track, but weak anywhere else.

A man's most glorious actions will at last be found to be but glorious sins, if he hath made himself, and not the glory of God, the end of those actions.

If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life.

The measure of a man's life is the well spending of it, and not the length.

A man can be so busy making a living that he forgets to make a life.

What man is a man who does not make the world better.

A man should be what he can do.

A man must know his destiny.

The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.

Meaning is man-created. And because you constantly look for meaning, you start to feel meaninglessness.

The unhappiest man on earth is the one who has nothing to do.