Quotes About Purpose

What God chooses for us children of men is always the best.

I live, like every real man, in my work.

Men are not flattered by being shown that there has been a difference of purpose between the Almighty and them.

Woe to that man who runs when God has not sent him; and woe to him who refuses to run, or who ceases to run, when God has sent him.

This divorce between man and his life, the actor and his setting, is properly the feeling of absurdity.

Without mysticism man can achieve nothing great.

Some men turn every quality or art into a means of making money; this they conceive to be the end, and to the promotion of the end all things must contribute.

No man is lost while he yet lives.

There is no loftier mission than to approach the Divinity nearer than other men, and to disseminate the divine rays among mankind.

Pray look upon the plants and birds, the ants, spiders, and bees, and you will see them all exerting their nature, and busy in their station. Pray, shall not a man act like a man?

I do not understand what the man who is happy wants in order to be happier.

Man errs not that he deems His welfare his true aim, He errs because he dreams The world does but exist that welfare to bestow.

The poorest man in the world is a man without a dream.

Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny.

Cultivated leisure is the aim of man.

In the twentieth century, death terrifies men less than the absence of real life.

One aged man - one man - can't fill a house.

In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.

A man without ambition is worse than dough that has no yeast in it to raise it.

As I see it then, the formula runs something like this: a man must choose a path which will let his ABILITIES function at maximum efficiency toward the gratification of his DESIRES.

A man generally has two reasons for doing a thing. One that sounds good, and a real one.

No one knows where we are going, the aim of life has been forgotten, the end has been left behind. Man has set out at tremendous speed- to go nowhere.

For a man not to achieve the things he has an opportunity to do is such a waste of life.

And as long as man has walked on this Earth, there has been God. And man's purpose is for the glorification of God.