Quotes About Purpose

The progressive development of man [has as its] ultimate purpose the complete mastery of mind over the material world.

One monster there is in the world, the idle man.

Without God man has no reference point to define himself.

Work is the only meanin' I've ever known. Like the man in the song says, I just gotta keep on keepin' on.

God does not choose a person for ease and comfort and selfish joy but for a task that will take all that head and heart and hand can bring to it. God chooses a man in order to use him.

Dreams, goals, ambitions - these are the stuff man uses for fuel.

Every man's highest, nameless though it be, is his 'living God'.

That man is idle who can do something better.

Merely gathering knowledge may become the most useless work a man can do. What can you do to help and heal the world? That is the educational test.

There is a difference between being a good man and being good at being a man.

Man shoot at nothing, sure to hit it.

Every man serves a useful purpose: a miser, for example, makes a wonderful ancestor.

Man is; it matters to him; this is terrifying unless it matters to God, too, because this is the only possible reason we can matter to ourselves.

Men will not fight and die without knowing what they are fighting and dying for.

A man's drive for profit should be prompted by the desire to give charity.

That all of God's men are immortal until God is through with them is a wonderful comforting thought for today. And when He is through with you, He will remove you from the earth.

Where the mind goes, the man follows.

A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.

I try to be the best man I can for the day.

Work seemed something fundamental for man, something which enabled him to endure the aimless flight of time.

Functionally, a man is somewhat like a bicycle. A bicycle maintains its poise and equilibrium only so long as it's moving forward towards something.

The liberal says the end of religion is to make man happy while he's alive. And the fundamentalist says the end of religion is to make man happy when he dies.

Men are that they might have joy . . . not guilt trips.

Many a man is given what is intended for another, but no man is given another's fate.