Quotes About Purpose

Pray look upon the plants and birds, the ants, spiders, and bees, and you will see them all exerting their nature, and busy in their station. Pray, shall not a man act like a man?

The lot assigned to every man is suited to him, and suits him to itself.

Reason and the reasoning faculty need no foreign assistance, but are sufficient for their own purposes. They move within themselves, and make directly for the point in view. Wherefore, acts in accordance with them are called right acts, for they lead along the right road.

All our efforts must be directed towards an end, or we will act in vain. If it is not the right end, we will fail utterly.

As if you had died and your life had extended only to this present moment, use the surplus that is left to you to live from this time onward according to nature.

Even the smallest thing should be done with reference to an end.

Have I been made for this, to lie under the blankets and keep myself warm?

No man can escape his destiny, the next inquiry being how he may best live the time that he has to live.

You will give yourself relief, if you do every act of your life as if it were the last.

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now, take what's left and live it properly. What doesn't transmit light creates its own darkness.

In the morning, when you are sluggish about getting up, let this thought be present: "I am rising to a man's work."

Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.

Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.

Be not careless in deeds, nor confused in words, nor rambling in thought.

One God, One Aim, One Destiny. (Motto of the UNIA)

Salvation Is More About This Life than an Afterlife

Our duty is to serve the mission, and if we're not doing that, then we have no right to call what we do service.

How do you get right with the idea, at the age of thirty-one, that the career you've pursued with every fiber of your being has come suddenly to an end?

He thought of getting out of bed but did not get out of bed. Why? What for? Everyone else seemed to know. Like there had been a meeting no one had told him about, where a secret was shared. Those who knew the secret did not wonder why they should get out of bed. He

He seemed the kind of guy who ran through his whole life heading for something more important.

A story has its purpose and its path. It must be told correctly for it to be understood.

Cui bono? [To whose advantage?]

Non nobis solum nati sumus. ( Not for ourselves alone are we born. )