Quotes About Purpose

A man without vision is a man without God.

Because all things are necessary to man's complete unfoldment, all things in human life are the work of God.

Jesus was clear that He had come, not to make life easy, but to make men great.

What can a man do to move along in some kind of grace through his days and years?

Men who reach decisions promptly usually have the capacity to move with definiteness of purpose in other circumstances.

Man's true end is to glorify God and to enjoy Him for ever.

Meaninglessnes s inhibits fullness of life and is therefore the equivalent to illness. Meaning makes a great many things endurable--perh aps everything.

All the various component parts of the Hebrew worship subserve this great purpose, the bringing of man into communication with God.

Health alone does not suffice. To be happy, to become creative, man must always be strengthened by faith in the meaning of his own existence.

Honorable men don't settle for lives of regret.

Nothing can be more obvious than that all animals were created solely and exclusively for the use of man.

A man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder - never likely to reach home port. To us comes the signal: chart your course, set your sail, position your rudder, and proceed.

Man's search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.

It is a peculiarity of man that he can only live by looking to the future.

I have heard men talk about the blessings of freedom," he said to himself, "but I wish any wise man would teach me what use to make of it now that I have it.

The finest fruit earth holds up to its Maker is a finished man.

The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are but different means chosen to arrive at it.

The gifted man bears his gifts into the world, not for his own benefit, but for the people among whom he is placed; for the gifts are not his, he himself is a gift to the community.

Animals... are there merely as a means to an end. That end is man.

Idleness is the sepulchre of a living man.

The poet's business is not to save the soul of man but to make it worth saving.

It is through accomplishment that man makes his contribution and contribution is life's greatest reward.

The world was not meant to be a prison in which man awaits his execution.

Quench love, and what is left of a man's life but the folding of a few jointed bones and square inches of flesh? Who would call that life?