Quotes About Purpose

I know what I say; I understand my mission and business. God Almighty is my shield; and what can man do if God is my friend?

William Perkins said, "The end of a man's calling is not to gather riches for himself…but to serve God in the serving of man, and in the seeking the good of all men.

A span of life is nothing. But the man who lives that span, he is something. He can fill that tiny span with meaning, so its quality is immeasurable though its quantity may be insignificant.

Life becomes the way it is lived; and man may live the way he wants to live when he learns to think what he wants to think.

For most men, life is a search for the proper Manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.

The purpose of the church is to make bad men good and good men better.

All too much of the man-made is ugly, inefficient, depressing chaos.

Without a goal we are much like the man with a boat and nowhere to go. Goals give us the drive and energy we need to remain on track long enough for their accomplishment.

It is unlikely that the good of a snail should reside in its shell: so is it likely that the good of a man should?

Happiness is a man's greatest achievement; it is the response of his total personality to a productive orientation toward himself and the world outside.

Only in being productively active can man make sense of his life.

Every great mind seeks to labor for eternity. All men are captivated by immediate advantages; great minds alone are excited by the prospect of distant good.

So utterly at variance is Destiny with all the little plans of men.

A man's true delight is to do the things he was made for.

The greatest good [a man] can do is to cultivate himself in order that he may be of greater use to humanity.

We will not be caught in no man's land.

A man is most efficient and will more quickly and easily succeed when engaged in work that he loves, or work that he performs in behalf of some person whom he loves.

The life of man is long, perhaps longer than necessary Or perhaps it is shorter than necessary?

When a book is just a plot, you know, two men fight for the love of a woman in a wild frontier, I immediately ask, 'Why?'

I believed that the way passed through Man, and that it was from there that destiny had to emerge.

Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and to persist in affirming the worth of an end is to make an ideal.

The world exists for the education of each man.

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

The purpose of life is living. Men and women should get the most they can out of their lives.