Quotes About Purpose

When a man is of no use to himself or to others, when his days and nights are filled with pain and sorrow, why should he remain to endure them longer?

Keeping busy was the only answer: action had always been his drug of choice.

She couldn't understand a vocation. Some people can't; at best, work's about status and pay cheques for them, it hasn't got value in itself.

Strike missed the absence of an overriding objective, in pursuit of which he could shelve his sadness; missed the imperative to dismiss pain and distress in the service of something greater, which had sustained him in the military.

Keeping busy was the only answer: action had always been his drug of choice. Sure

She couldn't understand a vocation. Some people can't; at best, work's about status and paychecks for them, it hasn't got value in itself.

Why were you born when the snow was falling?

Friends of friends had offered everything from management roles in the close protection industry to business partnerships, but the itch to detect, solve, and reimpose order on the moral universe could not be extinguished in him. He doubted it ever would be.

Some people need to be needed . . .

Pan Am was providing what amounted to a private 707 to carry the boss back and forth to Eleuthera. On most days the flight's only purpose was to deliver Trippe's Wall Street Journal.

Always remember that there are more important things than being rich.

We want to do something with the time we have, something that will give that time a certain meaning, a certain weight.

He walked home, completely at peace. He knew now he would go on doing the things he was doing -- going to work, buying up land he didn't understand, seeing Sylvan Glass for reasons he couldn't help. But he also knew it would all be fine, whatever happened. He knew it was the right thing to do. He was in the place he was meant to be. He was home, finally, at the happy and complete end of his long and troubled road. He was home.

Under the government of Nature, what you call punishments and rewards are simply consequences. Nature does not punish. Nature does not reward. Nature has no purpose.

Method is not (as we often think) subservient to goal but rather contains the goal within itself.

Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.

Goals must never be from your ego, but problems that cry for a solution.

The natural impulse of men is to follow, he thought, and whoever has the strongest sense of purpose will always dominate the rest.

The only meaning our lives have is the meaning we give them.

I am interested in art as a means of living a life; not as a means of making a living.

A common defect of modern art study is that too many students do not know why they draw.

Art is certainly not a pursuit for anyone who wants to make money.

Art need not be intended. It comes inevitably as the tree from the root, the branch from the trunk, the blossom from the twig. None of these forget the present in looking backward or forward. They are occupied wholly with the fulfillment of their own existence.

Concentrate on a single feature – as, build all toward one eye – make all lines lead toward that eye. (Robert Henri)