Quotes About Purpose

A marciful Providunce fashioned us holler O' purpose thet we might our principles swaller.

The thing to understand here is that gang rapes and gang or cult killings in times of peace and war are not "senseless violence." They are instead powerful acts of group bonding and criminal enabling that, quite often, have a hidden purpose of promoting the wealth, power, or vanity of a specific leader or cause…at the expense of the innocent.

Do what you will, only do something.

To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.

Thinking nothing done while anything remained to be done.

Keep to moderation, keep the end in view, follow nature.

It's daring to be curious about the unknown, to dream big dreams, to live outside prescribed boxes, to take risks, and above all, daring to investigate the way we live until we discover the deepest treasured purpose of why we are here.

A life of adventure is ours for the taking, whether we're seven or seventy. Life for the most part is what me make it. We have been given a responsibility to live it fully, joyfully, completely, and richly, in whatever span of time God grants us on this earth.

The illusion that there might be a single, correct, absolute answer independently of context, purpose and perspective, that is independently of the relevant interface, leads to paradoxical nonsense.

You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.

There's so many other things to write about than unrequited love.

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

As is a tale, so is life not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

Life is a gift of the immortal Gods, but living well is the gift of philosophy.

No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it.

Whatever is to make us better and happy, God has placed either openly before us or close to us.

Scale is not a destination. Don't get caught up in the narrative telling you to grow if growth isn't what you really want. Remember, big isn't the same as great.

Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen describes the approach of building an entire brand around a job to be done as 'purpose branding'. Purpose branding involves naming the product after the purpose it serves. In other words, as Clarissa Rayward, Director of Brisbane Family Law Centre, likes to say, it does what it says on the tin.

Growth for growth's sake is not a good strategy and, according to Collins, is the beginning of the end. Big is not the same as great, and neither is bigger necessarily more profitable.

Marvel not," she said. "God clears the way for me. I was born for this.

There were blows to be struck there that only she could strike. She must go to Compiègne. Jeanne was but a young girl. She could not realize that her allotted time was over. It is hard for one to accept the fact one is not needed; that everything can go on as usual without one, and Jeanne was very young.

We must have ideals and try to live up to them, even if we never quite succeed. Life would be a sorry business without them. With them it's grand and great.

M]an places the aim of his action in God, but God has no other aim of action than the moral and eternal salvation of man: thus man has in fact no other aim than himself.

I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good.