Quotes About Purpose

Law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.

It is a perplexing and unpleasant truth that when men already have "something worth fighting for,they do not feel like fighting.

It's too presumptuous and naïve to think you can change society by a photograph or anything else... I equate that with propaganda; I think that's a lower rank of purpose.

Asked what role he believes art plays in society, Baselitz replied, 'The same role as a good shoe, nothing more.

I happen to believe that certain types of assault weapons, which are manufactured and designed for military purposes to kill people very quickly should not be used in civilian society.

Vigorous societies harbour a certain extravagance of objectives.

It is not society's fault that most men seem to miss their vocation. Most men have no vocation.

Purpose is a man-made fiction. Nobody on their deathbed gets a plaque that says "he focused on only one thing for his entire life!" Those are counterfeit thoughts in a counterfeit society.

Our society is run by a managerial bureaucracy, by professional politicians; people are motivated by mass suggestion, their aim is producing more and consuming more, as purposes in themselves.

I always assumed that at some point I would have to quit making jokes, get a real job and do something meaningful and productive that would actually benefit society. Fortunately this never happened.

I am not fully forgiven until I allow God to write his new dream for my life on the blackboard of my mind. .. God has a great plan to redeem society. He needs me and wants to use me.

If leadership requires a fired-up sense of purpose and imagination, it also demands a profound connection to the society to be led.

Society does not exist for itself, but for the individual; and man goes into it, not to lose, but to find himself.

What drives me is exploration with a purpose, more the classic Royal Geographical Society genre.

Our lives our guided by that general conception of the course of things which has been created by society for social purposes.

It is our first duty to serve society, and after we have done that, we may attend wholly to the salvation of our own souls.

There is a sort of economy in Providence that one shall excel where another is defective, in order to make men more useful to each other, and mix them in society.

the real purpose of socialism is precisely to overcome and advance beyond the predatory phase of human development

Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship.

Life is too short to waste being a productive member of society.

Formation of Network of people for common purpose leads to Society with common objectives.

What is it to enjoy life? Sit at the beach? No. What it is is that you have to do something, you have be productive, make a contribution to the society, to the family, to yourself.

Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.

Expect great things from God, attempt great things for God.