Quotes About Purpose

When are you going to stop thinking about things that don't matter and start thinking about what lies ahead for you?

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If greatness is the objective, we are headed the wrong way.

We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts.

Surely another story could serve the same purpose, and lift her out of her solitude.

Money buys many things, but typically not a sense of either authenticity or meaning.

He is a weapon, a killer. Do not forget it. You can use a spear as a walking stick, but that will not change its nature.

You can use a spear as a walking stick, but that will not change its nature.

Little by little I began to listen better: to the sap moving in the plants, to the blood in my veins. I learned to understand my own intention, to prune and to add, to feel where the power gathered and speak the right words to draw it to its height. That was the moment I lived for, when it all came clear at last and the spell could sing with its pure note, for me and me alone.

Who was he if not destined for fame?

Success in such a war as this comes only through men sewn to a single purpose, funnelled to a single spear thrust rather than a thousand needle-pricks.

No wonder I have been so slow, I thought. All this while, I have been a weaver without wool, a ship without the sea. Yet now look where I sail.

Are you frightened?" I asked. The first call of a nightingale in the trees at our backs. "No," he answered. "This is what I was born for.

I was used to unhappiness, formless and opaque, stretching out to every horizon. But this had shores, depths, a purpose and a shape. There was hope in it.

He had never been hungry for glory, only for life.

I would not go on anymore weaving my cloths by day and unravelling them again at night, making nothing.

No wonder I had been so slow, I thought. All this while I had been a weaver without wool, a ship without sea. Yet look where I sail.

you can use a spear as a walking stick, but that will not change its nature. ~ Odysseus

Washed, anointed, oiled, combed and curled, catered for and courted by lovely attendants, and his purpose crowned by a miraculous concatenation of convenient conditions, Bonaventura's instinctive reaction, when he heard this unusual wailing in the rafters of the roof above him and this long-drawn melancholy moaning in the corridors and landings and stairways and cellars beneath him, was simply to feel peevishly annoyed with the God he worshipped.

Education is something which should be apart from the necessities of earning a living, not a tool therefor. It needs contemplation, fallow periods, the measured and guided study of the history of man's reiteration of the most agonizing question of all: Why?

the glue that seems to hold mankind in some kind of lasting stasis is everyone's desire to be useful.

Education is something which should be apart from the necessities of earning a living, not a tool therefor.

My purpose is to entertain myself first and other people secondly.

I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake.