Quotes About Purpose

It was not really a career choice that I had to make. It was something I knew right from the beginning. I had to be an actress... period.

Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?

There is not a single indication in man's wonderful mechanism that he was created for a life of poverty. There is something larger and grander for him in the divine plan than perpetual slavery to the bread-winning problem.

If people didn't know me and only knew my public persona, what I'd want them to know is everything that I do, I do for the Glory of Lord. Because of my Christian faith, that's who I am. I wasn't always that way, but I'm very proud that I am.

Do not forget that the value and interest of life is not so much to do conspicuous things...as to do ordinary things with the perception of their enormous value.

I ask to live a worker; otherwise I will die a warrior.

Why did things have to be so complicated with human beings?...Yet if we were not what we were, creatures with at least the awareness of purpose and honor, what would we be? Empty knights in armor, seeming so strong on the outside, yet hollow inside?

There was one question, however, which Inciarte had asked him and he could not answer. Why was it that he had lived while others had died? What purpose had God in making this selection? What sense could be made out of it? 'None,' replied Father Andrés. 'There are times when the will of God cannot be understood by our human intelligence. There are things which in all humility we must accept as a mystery.

?statymai, - kart? pasak? jis Džonui, - n?ra Dievo duoti, bet žmogaus sugalvoti. Pasiži?r?k gerai ? žmones, kurie juos kuria, ir pagalvok, kokiems tikslams jie tarnauja - juk dažniausiai apginti nuosavyb? t?, kurie j? turi, nuo t?, kurie jos neturi.

A WORD TO THE WISE Let the world pass in its time-ridden race; never get caught in its snare. Remember, the only acceptable case for being in any particular place is having no business there.

Omul este visul unei umbre.

For long you live and high you fly, For smiles you give and tears you cry, For all you touch and all you see Is all your life will ever be.

The day is short, the task is great, the master is insistent. It is not your duty to complete the task, but neither are you free to desist from it…

I work because I need to have two thousand francs in my pocket every month, but I have no desire to glorify work either by enthusiasm or envy or emulation. Life is a mere waiting room in which we spend time before entering into the void. Who would think of working in a waiting room? While awaiting our turn we chat, we look at the pictures on the walls. But work? There is no point in it, if when our turn comes to go into the next room we shall no longer see anything.

Life is about your destiny.

Your destiny will always remain your destiny.

If money was my only motivation, I would organize myself differently.

Nothing is more unworthy of a wise man, or ought to trouble him more, than to have allowed more time for trifling, and useless things, than they deserved.

Man - a being in search of meaning.

I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident they came by work.

The life which is unexamined is not worth living.

True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written; in writing what deserves to be read; and in so living as to make the world happier for our living in it.

It is best not to be born or to die as soon as possible.

that it is better to have no work to do than to work at nothing.