Quotes About Purpose

a man could scarcely make his writing a reason for living unless he believed in the validity of that writing.

Dotar la vida de significado requiere energía y, en aquel momento, estaba falto de ella.

Each arrow you shoot off carries its own target into the decidedly secret tangle

Making things . . . And making things work . . . That's where satisfaction is in this life.

I don't enjoy money for its own sake, Miss Sedláková," he told me. "But it's an important resource for my mission.

Youth was not made for pleasure, but for heroism.

Il y a une chose plus triste à perdre que la vie, c'est la raison de vivre, Plus triste que de perdre ses biens, c'est de perdre son espérance.

Maybe the journey isn't so much about becoming anything. Maybe it's about un-becoming everything that isn't really you, so you can be who you were meant to be in the first place.

Stories are about endings,' he'd said. 'They don't mean anything unless they come to an end.

Only fools and criminals didn't know why they did things.

The need is not always the call.

Jesus] protected what was valuable and didn't allow himself to be disrespected and abused until doing so had a divine purpose at his crucifixion.

perfection is an earthly illusion and is used as an excuse not to complete workplace or kingdom-purpose projects. For many, it's the fear of failure in disguise.

life lived in search of God is real life, the only life worth living.

There's plenty about my life I can't change. Can't bring the dead back to life on this earth. Can't make the world loving and kind. Can't change myself into a millionaire. But a patch of ground in this trashy lot -- I can change that. Can change it big. Better to put my time into that than moaning about the other all day.

To be happy I think you have to be doing something you not only enjoy, but admire.

The stated purpose of schools is to educate the kids. But there is no external pressure to do this well.

In almost any group of people you'll find hierarchy. When groups of adults form in the real world, it's generally for some common purpose, and the leaders end up being those who are best at it. The problem with most schools is, they have no purpose. But hierarchy there must be. And so the kids make one out of nothing.

you need to start doing something people want. You don't need to join a company to do that. All a company is is a group of people working together to do something people want. It's doing something people want that matters, not joining the group.6

Someone graduating from college thinks, and is told, that he needs to get a job, as if the important thing were becoming a member of an institution. A more direct way to put it would be: you need to start doing something people want. You don't need to join a company to do that. All a company is is a group of people working together to do something people want. It's doing something people want that matters, not joining the group.

People think that what a business does is make money. But money is just the intermediate stage — just a shorthand — for whatever people want. What most businesses really do is make wealth. They do something people want.

When a student comes and asks, Should I become a mathematician? the answer should be no. If you have to ask, you shouldn't even ask.

They all held that man is meant to serve God.

At the sessions of the organization department, the importance of establishing good contacts with the religious organizations so that the Communists could infiltrate the missions in China and use them for Communist purposes, was given serious consideration and special attention was drawn to the effective work which Dr. Harry F. Ward did for communism in China.