Quotes About Purpose

Quid est, Catulle? quid moraris emori? [...]

I remember arguing that moral greatness had little meaning without action to effect the moral end.

Who are we, really? Are our souls shaped, our fates written in full by God, before we draw our first breath? Do we make ourselves, by the choices we our selves make? Or are we clay merely, that is molded and pushed into the shape that our betters propose for us?

I ceased to serve a king and began, instead, to serve a kingdom.

Whatever his father said about angles of stifles, cow hocks or spavins, all horses were handsome and good. You just had to find the right use for them.

Dentre meus novos deveres, tinha certeza, finalmente nenhum seria indigno de ser narrado à minha mulher. Por fim, eu me encarregaria de um trabalho cujo objetivo era melhorar a vida, em vez de assistir a seu fim.

To have saved this small, singular one—this alone seemed reason enough that I lived. I knew then that this was how I was meant to go on: away from death and toward life, from birth to birth, from seed to blossom, living my life amongst wonders.

All the world is full of inscape and chance left free to act falls into an order as well as purpose.

Men kan weg moeten, zonder dat men ergens heen moet. Dat zijn de gevallen, dat men ergens vandaan moet.

Dat reizen om ergens een deeltje van toen en toen te ontdekken, dat is toch tijdverspilling? U bent toch schrijver, en geen bibliothecaris? Het gaat in het leven om geheel andere deeltjes.

Sooner or later your life is going to flash before your eyes; make sure it's worth watching.

The difference between great people and everyone else is that great people create their lives actively, while everyone else is created by their lives, passively waiting to see where life takes them next. The difference between the two is living fully and just existing.

With no clear picture of how you wish your life to be, how on earth are you going to live it? What is your Primary Aim? Where is the script to make your dreams come true? what is the first step to take and how do you measure your progress? How far have you gone and how close are you to getting to your goals?

we can find a balanced way forward that will allow us to embrace technology but not become technology, to use it as a tool and not as a purpose.

I cannot think that we are useless or God would not have created us. There is one God looking down on us all. We are all the children of one God. The sun, the darkness, the winds are all listening to what we have to say.

You have to know what you want to get it.

Being asked for what purpose he thought men were bom, he laughingly replied: " To realise how much better it were not to be born.

As soon as the child is born, the mother who has just brought him into the world must console him, quiet his crying, and lighten the burden of the existence she has given him. And in truth it is only fitting that the good father and the good mother, in trying to console their children, correct as best they can, and ease, the damage they have done by procreating them. Good God! Why then is man born? And why does he procreate? To console those he has given birth to for having been born?

In una vita così strema e consunta, la mia ambizione più urgente sarebbe quella di scrivere qualcosa che potesse intitolarsi, proprio letteralmente, De Amicitia. [...] Essere un amico concreto, non so se la mia vita potrà mai proporsi altri scopi. Aspirazione estrema, e chi sa se raggiungibile.

Forse questa è filosofia a buon mercato, ma io credo che certi lavori dovrebbero essere fatti da quelli che non si sentono adatti [...]. Sentirsi un po' fuori posto aiuta, rende più vigili.

He merely added that often you don't do what you would have liked to do in life, but that what you'd like to do isn't necessarily what you would be good at doing. Which, needless to say, is true.

Every glorious Gift comes from God. It is meant to change lives and lift His name on high.

God is great, because He created and predestined you for greatness.

There is no goal too gigantic, for God not to see you accomplish.