Quotes About Purpose

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all.

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem...

Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem - in my opinion - to characterize our age.

Try not to be a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

In that way imagination and intelligence enter into our existence in the part of servants of the primary instincts

And the high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule, or to impose himself in any other way.

When you examine the lives of the most influential people who have ever walked among us, you discover one thread that winds through them all. They have been aligned first with their spiritual nature and only then with their physical selves.

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

Life isn't worth living, unless it is lived for someone else.

Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age.

A fellow who does things that count, doesn't usually stop to count them.

Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.

The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is always becoming, never being.

The highest destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.

Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.

What is the meaning of human life, or of organic life altogether To answer this question at all implies a religion. Is there any sense then, you ask, in putting it I answer, the man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unfortunate but almost disqualified for life.

Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.

I'm very happy. I like my work and the various aspects of it - going around the world, teaching the gospel according to St. Albert.

Spirit and soul is horseshit of the worst sort. Obviously there are no fairies, no Santa Clauses, no spirits. What there is, is human goals and purposes as noted by sane existentialists. But a lot of transcendentalists are utter screwballs.

Have you ever seen an inchworm crawl up a leaf or a twig, and then, clinging to the very end, revolve in the air, feeling for something, to reach something That's like me. I am trying to find something out there beyond the place on which I have footing.

Daughter," said the grim old Presbyterian, "you can serve God and mankind as worthily with a gift like yours as you could by going as a missionary to the heathen. God gave you the rare power to write. You would be ungrateful to Him if you neglected it. Go on with your work.