Quotes About Purpose

Death is not only an unusually severe punishment, unusual in its pain, in its finality and in its enormity, but it serves no penal purpose more effectively than a less severe punishment; therefore the principle inherent in the clause that prohibits pointless infliction of excessive punishment when less severe punishment can adequately achieve the same purposes invalidates the punishment.

Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.

If a man's good for nothing else, he can at least teach philosophy.

There is but one unconditional commandment, which is that we should seek incessantly, with fear and trembling, so to vote and to act as to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.

Man lives for science as well as bread.

This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it, from the moral point of view.

The great use of life is to spend it for something that outlasts it.

Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.

The difference between a good man and a bad man is the choice of cause.

Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, 'This is the real me,' and when you have found that attitude, follow it.

The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.

The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.

Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

An education is incomplete which does not place a noble purpose behind mental training and make the hands willing to work.

Destiny is not a matter of chance but a matter of choice; It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved

RockChristopher: Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice.

Destiny is not a matter of chance, but of choice. Not something to wish for, but to attain

Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, but a thing to be achieved.

Why the hell's he preachin' if he don't preach to people that need it?

Spirit and purpose in all things. For all creation, respect.

If you throw yourself onto the fire of guilt, it will be a useless sacrifice. We do not know, any of us, the Great Mystery's purpose in this. But purpose there is.

A man's reach should exceed his grasp; else what's a heaven for? (Quote by Robert Browning)

TRADITIONALLY THE ANISHINAABE were a quiet people. Before the whites came, they lived in the silence of great woods and more often than not, the voices they heard were not human. The wind spoke. The water sang. All sound had purpose. When an Anishinaabe approached the wigwam of another, he respectfully made noise to announce his coming. Thunder, therefore, was the respectful way of the storm in announcing its approach. Spirit and purpose in all things. For all creation, respect.