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Quotes About Purpose

Take away God and religion, and men live to no purpose, without proposing any worthy end of life to themselves.
~ John Tillotson
Spiritual awakening is the most essential thing in man's life, and it is the sole purpose of being. Is not civilization, in all its tragic forms, a supreme motive for spiritual awakening?
~ Khalil Gibran
The fullness or emptiness of life will be measured by the extent to which a man feels that he has an impact on the lives of others.
~ Kingman Brewster, Jr.
Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.
~ Leo Tolstoy
My belief in God is responsible for what I am... How can I refuse to talk about something which is so much a prt of my life both as a man and as a actor?
~ Robert Vaughn
If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A young man without ambition is an old man waiting to be.
~ Steven Brust
Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.
~ Viktor E. Frankl
You can serve God and man in no more effective way than by getting rich; that is, if you get rich by the creative method and not by the competitive one.
~ Wallace D. Wattles
The immature man wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mature man wants to live humanely for one
~ Wilhelm Stekel
Man lives for science as well as bread.
~ William James
Whatever call a man may pretend to have, if he has not been called to holiness, he certainly has not been called to the ministry.
~ Charles Spurgeon
If man limits himself to a satisfied animal existence, and asks from life only what such an existence can give, the higher values of life at once disappear.
~ Christopher Dawson
How can a man learn navigation Where there's no rudder?
~ Christopher Fry
The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.
~ Dalai Lama
Men who have lived significant lives are men who never waited: not for money, security, ease, or women.
~ David Deida
The world has yet to see what God will do with a man fully consecrated to Him. By God's help, I aim to be that man.
~ Dwight L. Moody
Some men spend their whole life furnishing for themselves the things proper to life without realizing that at our birth each of us was poured a mortal brew to drink.
~ Epicurus
The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why - Warren Bennis, Leadership Guru It is not so much that man is a herd animal, said Freud, but that he is a horde animal led by a chief
~ Ernest Becker
All the research shows that being married, with all its ups and downs, is by far the most effective way of making young men law-abiding and giving them a sense of purpose and self-worth.
~ Ferdinand Mount
When you show a man what he wants he will move heaven and earth to get it.
~ Frank Bettger
This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world, is truer still of the world to come.
~ Frederick William Robertson
For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Man wants three things; life, knowledge, and love.
~ Fulton J. Sheen