Quotes About Purpose

Commitment is not a barrier to freedom. Commitment is the *exercise* of freedom, the act of making a choice or decision and meaning it. The one without the other is meaningless.

Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.

A human being who wakened in the morning with a queesy stomach, with fifteen hours to kill before next bedtime, had not much use for freedom.

Freedom and opportunity are precious gifts and the purpose of our politics is to expand them, for all our people.

To have too much time is not good, you have to force yourself. And human beings aren't meant for true freedom. I've learned that, having had it.

My story is a freedom song of struggle. It is about finding one's purpose, how to overcome fear and to stand up for causes bigger than one's self.

The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.

No friendship is an accident.

I've heard it said that people come into our lives for a reason Bringing something we must learn And we are led to those who help us most to grow If we let them and we help them in return.

My friends, your people have both intellect and heart; you use these to consider in what way you can do the best to live.

Not chance of birth or place has made us friends, Being oftentimes of different tongues and nations, But the endeavor for the selfsame ends, With the same hopes, and fears, and aspirations.

ALL MEANINGFUL KNOWLEDGE IS FOR THE SAKE OF ACTION, AND ALL MEANINGFUL ACTION FOR THE SAKE OF FRIENDSHIP.

Friendship, obligation and greed are not good enough reasons to write anything.

Their friendship was only one aspect of their lives but it seemed to give meaning to all the others.

People meet when they need to meet.

To associate with other like-minded people in small purposeful groups is for the great majority of men and women a source of profound psychological satisfaction.

A man said to the universe: 'Sir, I exist!' 'However,' replied the universe. 'The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation.

A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.

Funny songs, that's my ticket. I can't remember when it started or why it started, it's just something that I NEEDED.

You cannot be anything if you want to be everything.

I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach?

Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.

Things have to be funny first, and if they want to have a point, that's awesome.

I have only one ambition left: I should like to have a good epitaph.