Quotes About Purpose

Don't you know the quickest way to die is to retire?

And he'll learn that his index and second fingers are meant for something other than playing the game of stink-finger and pulling his bow.

Every action is measured by the depth of the sentiment from which it proceeds.

The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going

Every spirit builds itself a house; and beyond its house, a world; and beyond its world a heaven. Know then, that the world exists for you: build, therefore, your own world.

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficient distance, and it straightens itself to the average tendency. Your genuine action will explain itself, and will explain your other genuine actions. Your conformity explains nothing. Act singly, and what you have already done singly will justify you now.

The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul

Music takes us out of the actual and whispers to us dim secrets that startles out wonder as to who we are, and for what, whence, and whereto.

It is not the length of life, but the depth of life. He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.

To fill the hour,—that is happiness; to fill the hour, and leave no crevice for a repentance or an approval.

The days come and go but they say nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them as silently away.

Every industrious man, in every lawful calling, is a useful man. And one principal reason why men are so often useless is that they neglect their own profession or calling, and divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits.

The day is always (hers or) his, who works in it with serenity and great aims.

My life should be unique; it should be an alms, a battle, a conquest, a medicine.

Good luck is another name for tenacity of purpose.

The days come and go like muffled and veiled figures sent from a distant party, but they say nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them as silently away.

And truly it demands something godlike in him who has cast off the common motives of humanity, and has ventured to trust himself for a taskmaster. High be his heart, faithful his will, clear his sight, that he may in good earnest be doctrine, society, law, to himself, that a simple purpose may be to him as strong as iron necessity is to others!

A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life.

What would be the use of immortality to a person who cannot use well half an hour?

Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun.

Life is too short to waste The critic bite or cynic bark, Quarrel, or reprimand; 'Twill soon be dark; Up! mind thine own aim, and God speed the mark!

Nothing in nature is exhausted in its first use...In God, every end is converted into a new means.

Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.