Quotes About Purpose

The Son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God." ~ Mere Christianity, By C. S. Lewis

Meaning makes a great many things endurable---per haps everything.

No life is a waste. The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we're alone.

The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self.

A man isn't really alive till he has something bigger than himself and his own little happiness, for which he'd gladly die.

I fight for the man next to me. It don't matter about me, what matters about me is sacrificing for you; for the ultimate goal which is us.

Ambition is not what man does... but what man would do.

A man must have a battle to fight, a great mission to his life that involves and yet transcends even home and family.

Salvation is so great a thing, so glorious an attainment, that 'tis worth the while for a man to do his utmost every day during his whole life in the use of all proper means that he may attain.

Abasement, degradation is simply the manner of life of the man who has refused to be what it is his duty to be.

Seek above all for a game worth playing- such is the advice of the oracle to modern man.

The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning. If it can be written or thought, it can be filmed.

A man has to have goals - for a day, for a lifetime.

Not to be born at all would be the best thing for man.

Eventually every man gotta face the problem of tryin' to figger if it's worthwhile to prove that he is himself.

Whatever the mind sets itself on is what the man walks after.

Great offices will have great talents, and God gives to every man the virtue, temper, understanding, taste, that lifts him into life, and lets him fall just in the niche he was ordained to fill.

Man does not drift into goodness...the chance port of an aimless voyage. He must fight ever for his destination.

A man's task is to find himself, and if he fails in this, it doesn't much matter what else he finds.

God created man on purpose, and for a purpose.

What makes men happy is liking what they have to do. This is a principle on which society is not founded

Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.

The man who starts out going nowhere, generally gets there.

Pleasure is not the purpose of man's existence. Joy is.