Quotes About Purpose

I used to want to know everything, to be learned; and one thing I did learn thoroughly — I knew that I was not wanted here on earth.

I'd finally found my briar patch. My purpose in life,

An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.

When, on his return to Lud-in-the-Mist, he had been twitted for having wasted so much time on such an unworthy object, he had answered that a pig was thrall to the same master as a Mayor, and that it needed as much skill to cure the one as the other; adding that a good fiddler enjoys fiddling for its own sake, and that it is all the same to him whether he plays at a yokel's wedding or a merchant's funeral.

So fine a medicine is the will to action.

The man who is tenacious of purpose in a rightful cause is not shaken from his firm resolve by the frenzy of his fellow citizens clamoring for what is wrong, or by the tyrant's threatening countenance.

Live as with God; and, whatever be your calling, pray for the gift that will perfectly qualify you in it.

The great aim of human life

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.

Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen

If any man seeks greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both.

To have any goal in your life is to forget about the uselessness of life. To think of interesting ideas. - Isvan Moldovan

Idleness is emptiness; the tree in which the sap is stagnant, remains fruitless.

It is my humble prayer that I may be of some use in my day and generation

In this totally dark world, you can't live unless you're needed by someone.

All of us dream of being part of something greater than ourselves. All of us want to make a contribution. The greatest contribution you make isn't in the money you give to charities. It isn't in the nonprofit foundations you establish. And it isn't in the work you do as a volunteer. Your greatest contribution to something greater, to the lives of others, comes in what you do from nine to five.

But a man is not born too soon, Paine had smiled. The world waits for men and dreamers, so how can a man be born too soon?

There is a mighty interconnection in man's struggle for freedom, a singleness of purpose and endeavor which binds together those who struggle for human liberation, whatever land they live in, whatever tongue they speak, whatever race bears them.

Gruber speaks of an "evolving systems" approach to the study of creativity: that is, one monitors simultaneously the organization of knowledge in a domain, the purpose(s) pursued by the creator, and the affective experiences he or she undergoes. While these systems are only "loosely coupled," their interaction over time helps one understand the ebb and flow of creative activity over the course of a productive human life.

Whatever task God is calling us to, if it is yours it is mine, and if it is mine it is yours. We must do it together-or be cast aside together.

The implied premise of this passage is that life must be everlasting to be meaningful, but there is no obvious reason for thinking that. Why not draw the opposite conclusion—that the fact that life is short is our motivation for filling it with meaning? If we are keenly aware of "time's wingéd chariot,

Some people are intensely competitive in seeking social status; others show little interest in the game. Some people dote on children; others take the attitude of W. C. Fields. Still, it is hard indeed to imagine anyone happy who had achieved none or only a few of those natural goods. Someone without health or wealth or family or social standing or friendship or a sense of purpose would seem to be in a very bad way, perhaps suicidally depressed