Quotes About Purpose

There never yet was flower fair in vain.

Write what you love. That's really the most important thing—and believe it or not, the most important thing to making a living.

That's what's this is.

If your mind is dirty you can run 10,000 miles, but where have you gotten? If you go for a 1-mile run and you're passionately engaged with the world, who cares about the other 9,999?

All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why

All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from and to and why.

I would rather live my life than not live it.

There is a reason for all things and all things have a reason.

Do not commit the error so common among the young of assuming that if you cannot save the whole of mankind, you have failed.

helped them find dignity in meaningful work

Time is there for a purpose, to keep things in order. Once you change chronology you change history. The past could eat up the present . . .

A dairymaid can milk cows to the glory of God. — MARTIN LUTHER

It is easy to become the dupe of a deferred purpose, of the promise the future can never keep, and I had fallen into the meanest type of self-deception in making myself believe that all this was in preparation for great things to come.

We can all recall acquaintances of whose integrity of purpose we can have no doubt, but who cause much confusion as they proceed to the accomplishment of that purpose, who indeed are often insensible to their own mistakes and harsh in their judgments of other people because they are so confident of their own inner integrity.

Life could do nothing for her, beyond giving time for a better preparation for death.

And you are never to stir out of doors till you can prove that you have spent ten minutes of every day in a rational manner.

I do not wish to avoid the walk. The distance is nothing when one has a motive.

There is nothing like employment, active indispensable employment, for relieving sorrow. Employment, even melancholy, may dispel melancholy.

My real purpose was to see you, and to judge, if I could, whether I might ever hope to make you love me.

No hay distancias cuando se tiene un motivo - Elizabeth

Todo impulso del sentimiento debe estar dirigido por la razón, y a mi juicio, el esfuerzo debe ser proporcional a lo que se pretende - Mary

There is one thing, Emma, which a man can always do, if he chuses, and that is, his duty; not by manoeuvring and finessing, but by vigour and resolution.

There is always one thing a man can do, if he so chooses, and that is his duty.

He became what he ought to be: useful to his father, steady and quiet, and not living merely for himself.