Quotes About Purpose

If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.

Have a very good reason for everything you do.

She had been given a wonderful gift: life. Sometimes it was cruelly taken away too soon, but it's what you did with it that counted, not how long it lasted.

Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

Be daring, be different, be impractical; be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers.

I want to make my mark,' he says. But what target, I wonder, are you going to hit?

Technology is the answer, but what was the question?

Clocks served two purposes, in my opinion. The first was to tell people the time, and the second to impress upon me that time is an enigma, an intractable measureless phenomenon into which, out of sheer helplessness, we have introduced a semblance of order.

Wij hebben het nu over jou. Vergeet niet, ik ben notaris geweest. Ik maak die dingen altijd af. Wat wil jij worden?' 'Ik weet het niet.' Hij begreep dat dat geen goed antwoord was, maar het was het enige, zelfs als iemand graag altijd alles afmaakte. Hij had geen flauw idee. Eigenlijk wist hij zeker dat hij nooit iets wou, maar ook nooit iets zóú worden. De wereld was al boordevol met mensen die iets waren, en de meesten waren er duidelijk niet gelukkig mee.

At least I know who I am. What I want,

Turning your energy toward what's to come, leaning into the light. When you were born, your father wanted you to have my name. Miu: a seedling. He liked that idea, you as our little sprout. But I chose his: Gardner. One who makes things grow. I wanted you to be not only the grown, but the grower. To have power over your own life, turning your energy toward what's to come, leaning into the light.

called you by name so insistently unless they

Nothing is an accident,

Nothing is an accident,' Pauline would say, again and again.

Is there anything that gives you a deeper sense of satisfaction?

They dazzled her, these Richardsons: with their easy confidence, their clear sense of purpose, no matter the time of day.

Our lives are all that really belong to us, so it is how we use our lives that determines what kind of men we are

When we are really honest with ourselves we must admit our lives are all that really belong to us. So it is how we use our lives that determines the kind of men we are.

The end of all education should surely be service to others.

Ma la grande, la tremenda verità è questa: soffrire non serve a niente.

Si faccia una vita interiore, di studio, di affetti, che non siano soltanto di "arrivare", ma di "essere" - e vedrà che la vita avrà un significato.

Ma viene un momento, certe volte, che una ha paura del tempo che passa, e non sa più se val la pena di correre tanto.

la naissance ne suffit pas, il faut se créer.

I learned a long time ago, Reuven, that a blink of an eye in itself is nothing. But the eye that blinks, that is something. A span of life is nothing. But the man who lives that span, he is something. He can fill that tiny span with meaning, so its quality is immeasurable though its quantity may be insignificant. Do you understand what I am saying? A man must fill his life with meaning, meaning is not automatically given to life.