Quotes About Purpose

I have from the first felt sure that the writer, when he sits down to commence his novel, should do so, not because he has to tell a story, but because he has a story to tell. The novelist's first novel will generally have sprung from the right cause.

Buying and selling is good and necessary; it is very necessary, and may, possibly, be very good; but it cannot be the noblest work of man; and let us hope that it may not in our time be esteemed the noblest work of an Englishman.

I have all the world to choose from, but no reason whatever for a choice.

You can't alter a man's nature. Oswald was born to be a master of hounds, and you were born to be a Secretary of State.

Whether it be a bad life or a good life," said Lady Laura, "you and I understand equally well that no other life is worth having after it. We are like the actors, who cannot bear to be away from the gaslights when once they have lived amidst their glare.

What is any public question but a conglomeration of private interests? What is any newspaper article but an expression of the views taken by one side? Truth! it takes an age to ascertain the truth of any question! The idea of Tom Towers talking of public motives and purity of purpose!

Young people don't always fall in love," said the father. "But people will say that he is brought here on purpose," said the mother, using her second argument. The parson, who in family matters generally had his own way, expressed an opinion that if they were to be governed by what other people might choose to say, their course of action would be very limited indeed.

In social life we hardly stop to consider how much of that daring spirit which gives mastery comes from hardness of heart rather than from high purpose, or true courage.

I have never felt that the work is a burden; it is a duty — more than a duty, something I have to do.

Every work is great when it is in exact measure. A work that exceeds its proper limits is the least of all. We have said repeatedly that your work, your proper work, is unique; another man's work is equally so, do not interchange with him. You alone can do well what is laid upon you; you would do badly what your neighbor will do well. God is satisfied in all.

El que quiera el fin tiene que querer también los medios.

If Kayla is alive, I wonder if she really wants to be.

Look where you want to go.

what he wants. And

Treba se, dakle, baviti filozofijom ili se oprostiti od života i oti?i odavde, jer sve ostalo je golema besmislica i naklapanje.

Lo scopo del lavoro è quello di guadagnarsi il tempo libero.

Il primo motore è la cosa più perfetta che c'è, è pensiero che pensa a se stesso; dunque esso muove come ciò che è amato, cioè secondo il fine, mentre tutte le altre cose muovono essendo mosse, cioè secondo la causa efficiente. Il mondo lo ama per la sua perfezione e non per la sua bontà, e lui stesso è immobile perchè, essendo perfetto, non ha nulla da attuare.

Das Ziel des Weisen ist nicht Glück zu erlangen, sondern Unglück zu vermeiden.

Nature does nothing uselessly.

Wise men speak when they have something to say, fools speak because they have to say something

Happiness is a state of activity.

happiness does not consist in amusement. In fact, it would be strange if our end were amusement, and if we were to labor and suffer hardships all our life long merely to amuse ourselves.... The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue. It is a life which involves effort and is not spent in amusement....

Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.

Choice not chance determines your destiny [my family motto...credited to Aristotle]