Quotes About Purpose

Find out what you want to do, then do it. Never talk yourself into doing something you don't want. Think

If God meant for people to fly, He would have given them brains.

War is not violence and killing, pure and simple; war is controlled violence, for a purpose. The purpose of war is to support your government's decisions by force. The purpose is never to kill the enemy just to be killing him . . . but to make him do what you want him to do. Not killing . . . but controlled and purposeful violence. But

What's that got to do with it? Learning isn't a means to an end; it is an end in itself.

Surely where a man lives is the least important thing about him.

War is not violence and killing, pure and simple; war is controlled violence, for a purpose. The purpose of war is to support your government's decisions by force. The purpose is never to kill the enemy just to be killing him . . . but to make him do what you want him to do. Not killing . . . but controlled and purposeful violence.

To paraphrase Sherlock Holmes; when you have eliminated what you can't do, what remains is what you must do.

God invented people to amuse Him because He didn't have television

I had to perform an act of faith. I had to prove to myself that I was a man. Not just a producing-consuming economic animal…but a man.

To own one's own shadow is to reach a holy place—an inner center—not attainable in any other way. To fail this is to fail one's own sainthood and to miss the purpose of life.

Did something unique happen physically, or was it "only" psychological? As long as the experience was truly overwhelming for the participants, what purpose can such a question serve? (After all, happiness, bravery, zest and all the other desirable qualities can also be explained away as "only" psychological.)

Boredom is mostly caused by not doing what you want to do which is caused by not knowing what to do or not knowing how to get out of a situation that you are in.

Colin Wilson argues that when we say, Life is boring and meaningless, it means that we are boring and meaningless. Can there be any truth in this?

There stirred behind her face a sense of life and purpose and mirth and caring that made her seem to be in motion even as she was still. There was a kind of rhythm to her, even in motionless repose. I said, "Energy contained by grace, maybe.

it's better to be what I am than to be failing at what I am not.

See, being a person is kind of random and arbitrary business. You may have noticed that. And you need to believe in something to keep it from being too random and arbitrary to handle. Some people take religion, or success, or patriotism, or family, but for a lot of guys those things don't work. A guy like me. I don't have religion or family that sort of thing. So you accept some system of order, and you stick to it.

What I must do concerns me, not what people think.' 

Luck is the residue of design," I said.

I know what I want and what I might gain, and yet, how profitless to know.

Why stay we on earth except to grow?

This world's no blot for us, Nor blank; it means intensely, and means good: To find its meaning is my meat and drink.

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?

O poder do Homem deve exceder o seu alcance. Senão, para que serviria o céu?

Your reach should exceed your grasp, or what's a heaven for