Quotes About Purpose

Do the duty which lieth nearest to thee! Thy second duty will already have become clearer.

The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder - 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.

Have a purpose in life, and having it, throw into your work such strength of mind and muscle as God has given you.

Of all the paths a man could strike into, there is, at any given moment, a best path .. A thing which, here and now, it were of all things wisest for him to do .. To find this path, and walk in it, is the one thing needful for him.

Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.

We looked out on Life, with its strange scaffolding

Not what I Have," continues he, "but what I Do is my Kingdom.

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

let him who gropes painfully in darkness or uncertain light, and prays vehemently that the dawn may ripen into day, lay this other precept well to heart, which to me was of invaluable service: 'Do the duty which lies nearest thee,' which thou knowest to be a Duty! Thy second duty will already have become clearer.

Know thyself': long enough has that poor 'self' of thine tormented thee; thou wilt never get to 'know' it, I believe! Think it not thy business, this knowing of thyself; thou art an unknowable individual: know what thou canst work at; and work at it, like a Hercules! That will be thy better plan.

What are you doing in God's fair Earth and Task-garden; where whosoever is not working is begging or stealing? Wo, wo to themselves and to all, if they can only answer: Collecting tithes, Preserving game!

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

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

A person usually has two reasons for doing something, a good reason and the real reason.

It does a bullet no good to go fast; and a man, if he be truly a man, no harm to go slow; for his glory is not at all in going, but in being.

Thus for some 4,400 years the people living in closest association with honeybees have focused on devising housing arrangements for bees that serve human purposes and have largely ignored what the bees' themselves seek in a home.

To him who, though by no means near the end, is yet advancing, He is the way; to him who has put off all that is dead He is the life.

Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.

I think life doesn't necessarily have an endgame.

Literature is about as unnecessarily necessarily as tableware or ironed shirts.

Your mind, which is yourself, can be likened to a house. The first necessary move then, is to rid that house of all but furnishings essential to success.

I don't see myself ever retiring, unless it's for something that I like better, and so far I like directing a lot but I don't see the necessity to retire from anything unless there's a really great alternative.

When a real artist creates something, it has to be a necessity, the only way he can say something.

I'm not one of these people who likes to do as little as possible. I really do feel the hot breath of time on the back of my neck these days. And there are certain things I want to do before my time is up.