Quotes About Purpose

The fate of man is man.

Man is not the centre. God does not exist for the sake of man. Man does not exist for his own sake.

Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become the next moment. By the same token, every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.

Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men.

Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend.

Life is not worth living for which a man is not prepared to die at any moment.

Manliness means perfect manhood, as womanliness implies perfect womanhood. Manliness is the character of a man as he ought to be, as he was meant to be.

To survive, men and business and corporations must serve.

A man can't just sit around.

Man what's the point of living if I'm living for myself Lord empty out my life before I put you on the shelf

What the hell kind of man decides to dress up as a bat and run around the city? There's got to be something a little bit loose in there.

Men are not free when they're doing just what they like. Men are only free when they're doing what the deepest self likes. And there is getting down to the deepest self! It takes some diving.

A man of God in the will of God is immortal until His work is done.

"You marked the minutes," the old man said. "But did you use them wisely? To be still? To cherish? To be grateful? To lift and be lifted?"

A man does not have himself killed for a half-pence a day or for a petty distinction. You must speak to the soul in order to electrify him

Love will never separate a man from his personal legend.

Man was not made for himself alone

Man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away... A man should wait, and not take his own life until God summons him.

The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action.

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

I am not sure that God always knows who are his great men; he is so very careless of what happens to them while they live.

It is all right when God sends us the approval of our fellow men; however, we must never make that approval a motive in our life.

You must be the kind of man who can get things done. But to get things done, you must love the doing, not the secondary consequences.

If a man is not made for God, why is he happy only in God?