Quotes About Purpose

The Philosopher says (Metaph. ii, 2) that "to suppose a thing to be indefinite is to deny that it is good." But the good is that which has the nature of an end. Therefore it is contrary to the nature of an end to proceed indefinitely. Therefore it is necessary to fix one last end.

Happiness consists in self-application to something higher.

Agere sequitur esse.

porque el hombre está dirigido a Dios, en cuanto a un fin que sobrepasa la comprensión de su razón:

The once fashionable myth that crusaders were self-serving, disinherited, land-hungry younger sons must be discarded. Crusading was instead an activity that could bring spiritual and material rewards, but was in the first instance both an intimidating and extremely costly activity. Devotion inspired Europe to crusade, and in the long years to come the First Crusaders proved time and again that their most powerful weapon was a shared sense of purpose and indestructible spiritual resolution.

I did not want to be anything, and naturally I did not want to turn myself into a mere profession: all I ever wanted was to be myself.

The lives of such are most desirable, and the deaths of such will be most lamented, who make it their business to serve their generation.

The first great work that men are to attend in this world is the eternal safety and security of their souls; the next great work is to know, to be assured, that it shall go well with their souls forever.

For a close, remember this, that your life is short, your duties many, your assistance great, and your reward sure; therefore faint not, hold on and hold up, in ways of well-doing, and heaven shall make amends for all.

Human freedom is created by God with a capacity for responsiveness to God.

Yet to decide that this One exists is not quite like deciding that anything else exists. For this decision assumes a wider implication that the decider shall order his or her life around the existence of this One, if this One exists at all. It is not merely a casual or theoretical decision that makes no necessary difference to the way one lives the rest of one's life

God permits sin to come into human life, but only on behalf of a greater good—namely, freedom—and God overrules sin wherever it appears to threaten God's greater purpose

A man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder.

Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness.

Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.

The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder--a waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpose in life and having it, throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work as God has given you.

So here hath been dawningAnother blue Day:Think wilt thou let itSlip useless away.

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

All work, even cotton spinning, is noble; work is alone noble…. A life of ease is not for any man, nor for any god.

It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.

The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

A man with a half volition goes backwards and forwards, and makes no way on the smoothest road a man with a whole volition advances on the roughest, and will reach his purpose, if there be even a little worthiness in it. The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder - a waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpose in life and having it, throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work as God has given you.

A well written life is almost as rare as a well spent one.