Quotes About Purpose

When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.

Men want power in order to do something. Boys want power in order to be something.

Evolution teaches us the original purpose of language was to ritualize men's threats and curses, his spells to compel the gods; communication came later.

There, comrades, is the answer to all our problems. It is summed up in a single word-- Man

The center of every man's existence is a dream.

No man can ever raise above that that which he aims.

Man is to be understood only in his relationship to God.

The span of a man's life - that is nothing. But what a man makes of that span - that is something. A man must make his own meaning for life. Meaning is not automatically given to life.

A man must fill his life with meaning, meaning is not automatically given to life.

The Three Armies can be deprived of their commanding officer, but even a common man cannot be deprived of his purpose.

A new question has arisen in modern man's mind, the question, namely, whether life is worth living...No sensible answer can be given to the question...because the question does not make any sense.

Man's task is simple. He should cease letting his existence be a thoughtless accident.

Neither man nor nation can exist without a sublime idea.

Man's greatest concern is to know how he shall properly fill his place in the universe and correctly understand what he must be in order to be a man.

It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Boys go to Washington to be somebody...men go to do something.

Man is a means for turning things into spirit and turning spirit into things.

Man actually needs the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him.

The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.

Moses was a forgotten man in the wilderness, But God had Moses right where he wanted him and met him at a burning bush.

A fanatic is a man who, when he's lost sight of his purpose, redoubles his effort.

The successful men of today are men of one overmastering idea, one unwavering aim, men of single and intense purpose.

Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him.

Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.