Quotes About Purpose

William Shakespeare

There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will.

If there is a good will, there is great way.

What is a man, if his chief good and market of his time be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, looking before and after, gave us not that capability and god-like reason to fust in us unused.

Conceal me what I am, and be my aid for such disguise as haply shall become the form of my intent.

There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will

the time of life is short; To spend that shortness basely were too long.

Forward, I pray, since we have come so far, And be it moon, or sun, or what you please. And if you please to call it a rush candle, Henceforth I vow it shall be so for me.

Strong reasons make strong actions.

Infirm of purpose! Give me the daggers: the sleeping and the dead are but as pictures: 'tis the eye of childhood that fears a painted devil

Tush! Fear not, my lord, we will not stand to prate; Talkers are no good doers: be assured We come to use our hands and not our tongues.

Purpose is but the slave to memory, Of violent birth, but poor validity;

Well, we were born to die.

Are you up to your destiny?

What is the course and drift of your compact?

Time, thou anticipat'st my dread exploits. The flighty purpose never is o'ertook Unless the deed go with it. From this moment The very firstlings of my heart shall be The firstlings of my hand. And even now, To crown my thoughts with acts, be it thought and done

Lastima del amor! A pesar de la venda que lleva, ve, aun sin ojos, la manera de lograr su proposito

for naught so vile on the Earth doth live, but to the Earth some special good doth give

I want that glib and oily art to speak and purpose not, since what I well intend, I'll do't before I speak.

Come, we burn daylight, ho!

My determinate voyage is mere extravagancy

If we offend, it is with our good will.    That you should think, we come not to offend, But with good will. To show our simple skill,    That is the true beginning of our end.

Astros extinguíos! No aclare vuestra luz mis oscuros designios.

What pleasure, sir, find we in life to lock it / From action and adventure?