Quotes About Purpose

Life is pain. War is change. The raw materials of life hammered and shaped into something with a purpose.

That isn't a desperate act. That's a PLAN.

Remember that life is not measured in hours but in accomplishments.

Nature, Mr. Allnut, is what we are put into this world to rise above.

Who are you who will read these words and study these photographs, and through what cause, by what chance, and for what purpose, and by what right do you qualify to, and what will you do about it?

How far we all come. How far we all come away from ourselves. So far, so much between, you can never go home again. You can go home, it's good to go home, but you never really get all the way home again in your life. And what's it all for? All I tried to be, all I ever wanted and went away for, what's it all for?

Any marnin' th' good Lord lets'ee open your eyes, that's a day he's got somethin' f'r ye t' do.

Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it.

Thought allied fearlessly to purpose becomes creative force.

To follow, under all circumstances, the highest promptings within you; to be always true to the divine self; to rely upon the inward Voice, the inward Light, and to pursue your purpose with a fearless and restful heart, believing that the future will yield unto you the need of every thought and effort; knowing that the laws of the universe can never fail, and that your own will come back to you with mathematical exactitude -- this is faith and the living of faith.

Possessions are mere transient effects that come when they are required, and after their purpose has been served, pass away.

The world steps aside for the man who knows where he is going

The visions you glorify in your mind, The ideals you enthrone in your heart.. This you will build your life by... This you will become.

Forget purpose. It's okay to be happy without one. The quest for a single purpose has ruined many lives.

the only things that really matter in this world are the relationships you have with the people you love, and the meaningful things that you do. Haters don't fit anywhere into that. Don't devote any mental space to them.

You're only working with if you count the money at the end of the night. Otherwise you're working for.

Time passes in a linear trajectory, utilize your path along it wisely.

l'unica cosa su cui sarai giudicata è se l'hai chiesto.

No wonder Americans seemed crazy to everybody else--they were utterly alone in the vastness of this ridiculously immense land. They all skittered about, alighting and flying off again like frantic butterflies. Looking for--what? What were they looking for?

If you were born to be a nail, you cannot curse the hammer.

If you were born to be a flood, you cannot insult Heaven by insisting you are a drought.

Slowly, both the vaguely ironic and the deeply sincere among them came to see how seriously the Red Cross and the army took this service. And they started to take it seriously, too. They didn't feel like cooks, didn't feel like waitresses. Ellie said they were ass-kicking bitches, and they knew that they were. Though Irene said: "I was thinking of Amazons." Ellie and Dorothy stared at her—she made a soft little muscle—and laughed.

IF SOMEONE were to tell me I had twenty years left, and ask me how I'd like to spend them, I'd reply: "Give me two hours a day of activity, and I'll take the other twenty-two in dreams Ã¢â'¬Â¦ provided I can remember them.

The real purpose of surrealism was not to create a new literary, artistic, or even philosophical movement, but to explode the social order, to transform life itself.