Quotes About Purpose

Whatever you do, do it with intelligence, and keep the end in view.

Many are secretly seeking their own ends in what they do, yet know it not.

If you gave more frequent thought to your death than to a long life, you would unquestionably be more eager to amend your life.

Let all things be loved for the sake of Jesus, but Jesus for His own sake.

Pour un petit avantage, on entreprend une longue route; et pour la vie éternelle, à peine en trouve-t'on qui veuillent faire un pas.

Your sole desire should be the glory of God, not the praise of others.

If thou seekest Jesus in all things, thou shalt surely find Jesus.

Homo proponit, sed Deus disponit

It is vanity to desire a long life, and to have little care for a good life.

As soon as you have given yourself to God with all your heart and seek neither this nor that for your own pleasure and purpose, but place yourself completely in His charge, you shall find yourself at peace, united with Him, because nothing will be so sweet, nothing will please you so much as the good pleasure of His will.

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Why seekest thou rest when thou art born to labour? Prepare thyself for patience more than for comforts, and for bearing the cross more than for joy.

You were born to work, so why do you look for rest?

How many perish through empty learning in this world, who care little for serving God.

The resolve of the just depends upon the grace of God, not on their own wisdom; in Him they trust, whatever they undertake. For man proposes, but God disposes; it is not for man to choose his lot.

It is vanity to wish for a long life and to care little about a well-spent life.

A life without a purpose is a languid, drifting thing. Every day we ought to renew our purpose, saying to ourselves: This day let us make a sound beginning, for what we have hitherto done is nought.

I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident they came by work.

Even in situations which appeared to end tragically, in loss and death, much fruit will come from them.

You can't realize your dreams unless you have one to begin with.

To live well is to work well, to show a good activity.

Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.

Now in matters of action the reason directs all things in view of the end:

No more does one who is on a journey have to think at every step of his destination.