Quotes About Purpose

True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it.

Procrastination is illogical from every viewpoint. It is like the man who wanted to cross the stream, so he sat on the bank to wait for all the water to run by.

Blessed is that man who knows his own distaff and has found his own spindle.

It is only when men associate with the wicked with the desire and purpose of doing them good, that they can rely upon the protection of God to preserve them from contamination.

No matter what a man does, he is not fully sane or human unless there is a spirit of freedom in him, a soul unconfined by purpose and larger than the practicable world.

where a man feels at home, outside of where he's born, is where he's meant to go.

Boys do what they can; men do what they want

Man is a messenger who forgot the message.

The mighty hopes that make us men.

Man's activity consists in either a making or doing. Both of these aspects of the active life depend for their correction upon the contemplative life (that is, the Hero).

Man is sent into the world to perform his duty even at the cost of his life.

A man without a heroic bent starts dying at the age of thirty.

Before God can use a man greatly he must wound him deeply.

The man who is just and resolute will not be moved from his settled purpose, either by the misdirected rage of his fellow citizens, or by the threats of an imperious tryant.

The chiefest action for a man of great spirit is never to be out of action... the soul was never put into the body to stand still.

One of the rarest things that a man ever does, is to do the best he can.

Through faith man experiences the meaning of the world through action he is to give to it meaning.

Every man is the painter and the sculptor of his own life.

LIFE + DESIRE = MAN; LIFE - DESIRE = GOD.

The real things about man are not his body.

When a man cannot find meaning, he numbs himself with pleasure.

A man is simple when his chief care is the wish to be what he ought to be, that is honestly and naturally human.

Just as God's will is creation and is called 'the world' so His intention is the salvation of men, and it is called 'the Church.'

Man is the only thing that has no further use after something goes amiss.