Quotes About Purpose

Our current obsession with creativity is the result of our continued striving for immortality in an era when most people no longer believe in an afterlife.

Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.   Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Live the life you want.

Have you found out the meaning of your life? Yes. I've finally figured it out. It's to find something more important to me than my own life. Finding something more important to us than our own lives is why we are all born. We're all given with one life inside us. And God wants us to use that life to set out on lifelong journey to find something that is more important to us. You too are someone more important to me than my own life.

Have you found out the meaning of your life?' 'Yes. I've finally figured it out. It's to find something more important to me than my own life. Finding something more important to us than our own lives is why we are all born. We're all given with one life inside us. And God wants us to use that life to set out on lifelong journey to find something that is more important to us than ourselves

The happy life is thought to be one of excellence; now an excellent life requires exertion, and does not consist in amusement.

Happiness is an expression of the soul in considered actions.

The single harmony produced by all the heavenly bodies singing and dancing together springs from one source and ends by achieving one purpose, and has rightly bestowed the name not of \""disordered\"" but of \""ordered universe\"" upon the whole.

Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids

Purpose is a desire for something in our own power, coupled with an investigation into its means.

Purpose ... is held to be most closely connected with virtue, and to be a better token of our character than are even our acts.

If there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake, clearly this must be the good. Will not knowledge of it, then, have a great influence on life? Shall we not, like archers who have a mark to aim at, be more likely to hit upon what we should? If so, we must try, in outline at least, to determine what it is.

But the merchant, if faithful to his principles, always employs his money reluctantly for any other purpose than that of augmenting itself.

Now ends clearly differ from one another. For, firstly, in some cases the end is an act, while in others it is a material result beyond and besides that act. And, where the action involves any such end beyond itself, this end is of necessity better than is the act by which it is produced.

Wealth is clearly not the absolute good of which we are in search, for it is a utility, and only desirable as a means.

What, then, is in each case the chief good? Surely it will be that to which all else that is done is but a means. And this in medicine will be health, and in tactics victory, and in architecture a house, and so forth in other cases.

Happiness consists in the consciousness of a life in which the highest Virtue is actively manifested.

All action presupposes an end.

One may perhaps be led to suppose that it is virtue that is the end of the statesman's life. Yet even virtue itself would seem to fall short of being an absolute end.

Nature makes nothing incomplete, and nothing in vain.

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

Every science and every inquiry, and similarly every activity and pursuit, is thought to aim at some good.

The final cause, then, produces motion through being loved.