Quotes About Purpose

I can't imagine anything more worthwhile than doing what I most love. And they pay me for it.

If God has allowed me to earn so much money, it is because He knows I give it all away.

Whether in music, or other things, one never knows what surprisingly satisfying things God has in His plan for the developed talent with is literally 'given' to Him to use or to lay aside.

The main trouble with Bill was that along with nine-tenths of the rest of humanity, he had missed his calling.

The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else.

Ambition can creep as well as soar.

Well is it known that ambition can creep as well as soar.

God's purpose was not simply to deliver Israel from Pharoah's yoke. It was to bring them under His yoke.

meaningless piety, she knew – but to be always meaningful makes a cold world.

I had to philosophize. Otherwise, I could not live in this world.

Life must go on; I forget just why.

Tecnologia é a resposta, mas qual é a questão?

Al final —concluyó con abatimiento—, ya no sabía qué estaba haciendo allí. Sólo sabía que, fuera lo que fuese, no tenía el menor sentido. —Esto que acabas de describir —le dije— se llama trabajar.

Stubborness is no more than a way of approaching things: it can be used for unworthy aims, but also worthy ones.

Without anxiety and illness I should have been like a ship without a rudder.

Growth for the sake of growth is a cancerous madness.

If it's knowledge and wisdom you want, then seek out the company of those who do real work for an honest purpose.

From the point of view of a tapeworm, man was created by God to serve the appetite of the tapeworm.

What is the purpose of the giant sequoia tree? The purpose of the giant sequoia tree is to provide shade for the tiny titmouse.

Certainly, I want to capture the reader's attention from the beginning and hold it until the end: that is half the purpose of my art. The other half must be to tell my story in the most honest way that I can.

Should a writer have a social purpose? Any honest writer is bound to become a critic of the society he lives in, and sometimes, like Mark Twain or Kurt Vonnegut or Leo Tolstoy or Francois Rabelais, a very harsh critic indeed. The others are sycophants, courtiers, servitors, entertainers. Shakespeare was a sychophant; however, he was and is also a very good poet, and so we continue to read him.

If the end does not justify the means - what can?

The Machine may seem omnipotent, but it is not. Human bodies and human wit, active here, there, everywhere, united in purpose, independent in action, can still face that machine and stop it and take it apart and reassemble it-if we wish-on lines entirely new. There is, after all, a better way to live.

With an intelligence too fine to be violated by ideas, she had learned that she was searching not for self-transformation (she liked herself) but for something good to do.