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Quotes About Purpose

I feel that I am a man of destiny.
~ Friedrich Schiller
All things must; man is the only creature that wills.
~ Friedrich Schiller
When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves he isn't a man of action.
~ Georges Clemenceau
Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Men are not put into this world to be everlastingly played on by the harping fingers of joy.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
A man without ambition is like a beautiful worm - it can creep, but it cannot fly.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
~ Tennessee Williams
We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.
~ Tennessee Williams
All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.
~ Tennessee Williams
If you don't have a plan, you become part of somebody else's plan.
~ Terence McKenna
God's will is that no bounds should be set to His works.
~ Teresa of Avila
the Lord knows everyone as he really is and gives each his work to do -- according to what He sees to be most fitting for his soul, and for His own Self, and for the good of his neighbor.
~ Teresa of Avila
All the trials that we have suffered will, I believe, have been endured to good purpose. The rule is rather strict, for meat is never eaten except in cases of necessity
~ Teresa of Avila
Some people aspire to achieve, others are content with just existing. Question is - are you a sheep or a herder?
~ Terpsichore Lindeman
To navigate in a world without value is to be without rudder or destination, and yet without science, we navigate blind. To many, apparently, blindness is preferable.
~ Terrence W. Deacon
every time you make a decision to be less than what God wants for you, you're denying yourself some of God's blessings. It's up to you. You can live a life with God's blessings, or just exist with all the consequences of choosing wrong.
~ Terri Blackstock
time wasted is not always a waste of time.
~ Terri Blackstock
So could it be that good can come out of suffering? That God uses it to build things into us? Things we might need?
~ Terri Blackstock
She had always asked him what, exactly, he was training for. Now she knew.
~ Terri Blackstock
You cannot discover the purpose of life by asking someone else - the only way you'll ever get the right answer is by asking yourself.
~ Terri Guillemets
It was the tiniest thing I ever decided to put my whole life into.
~ Terri Guillemets
Worry ducks when purpose flies overhead.
~ Terri Guillemets
The goal of life: simple but not empty.
~ Terri Guillemets
When he walks he casts a shadow of purpose.
~ Terri Guillemets