Quotes About Purpose

Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning.

In dreams begin responsibility.

Even when the poet seems most himself… he is never the bundle of accident and incoherence that sits down to breakfast; he has been reborn as an idea, something intended, complete.

The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obedience to the heart.

In dreams begins responsibility.

The years like great black oxen tread the world And God, the herdsman, goads them on behind.

The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.

The intellect of man is forced to choose Perfection of the life, or of the work.

Hearts with one purpose alone/Through summer and winter seem/Enchanted to a stone/To trouble the living stream.

In respect to the danger of being killed by them, it is true that whoever does go must put his life in his hand, and not consult with flesh and blood; but do not the goodness of the cause, the duties incumbent on us as the creatures of God, and Christians, and the perishing state of our fellow men, loudly call upon us to venture all and use every warrantable exertion for their benefit?

I'm not afraid of failure, I'm afraid of succeeding at things that don't matter.

Perhaps our role on this planet is not to worship God but to create Him.

An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands.

Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

Here is the sequence of steps we have identified in achieving a path of purpose: Inspiring communication with persons outside the immediate family Observation of purposeful people at work First moment of revelation: something important in the world can be corrected or

Hunger is not the worst feature of unemployment; idleness is.

Once you decide to do right, life is easy, there are no distractions.

He is to be educated because he is a man, and not because he is to make shoes, nails, and pins.

Life has a higher end, than to be amused.

Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.

I find that a man is as old as his work. If his work keeps him from moving forward, he will look forward with the work.

To live one's myth is to think in its terms. To fulfill one's myth is to suffer through its source.

An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.

What's wrong with this world is, it's not finished yet. It is not competed to the point where man can put his final signature to the job and say, "It is finished. We made it and it works."