Quotes About Purpose

What is the meaning of it, Watson? said Holmes solemnly as he laid down the paper. What object is served by this circle of misery and violence and fear? It must tend to some end, or else our universe is ruled by chance, which is unthinkable. But what end? There is the great standing perennial problem to which human reason is as far from an answer as ever.

What object is served by this circle of misery and violence and fear? It must tend to some end, or else our universe is ruled by chance, which is unthinkable. But what end? There is the great standing perennial problem to which human reason is as far from an answer as ever.

Holy men? Holy cabbages! Holy bean-pods! What do they do but live and suck in sustenance and grow fat? If that be holiness, I could show you hogs in this forest who are fit to head the calendar. Think you it was for such a life that this good arm was fixed upon my shoulder, or that head placed upon your neck? There is work in the world, man, and it is not by hiding behind stone walls that we shall do it.

I assure you, my good Lestrade, that I have an excellent reason for everything that I do.

My profession is its own reward

Sometimes I think that it is only the monstrous conceit of mankind which makes him think that all this stage was erected for him to strut upon.

Ningún hombre carga su mente con asuntos pequeños, salvo que tenga algún buen motivo para hacerlo.

Mi dica, dottore, a cosa serve avere determinate facoltà se non c'è modo di impiegarle? Il delitto è banale, la vita è banale, e soltanto le qualità banali hanno ormai una funzione sulla terra.

You seem very anxious to lose your life." "To justify my life, Sir.

cocaine. I cannot live without brain-work. What else is there to live for? Stand at the window here. Was ever such a dreary, dismal, unprofitable world? See how the yellow fog swirls down the street and drifts across the dun-colored houses. What could be more hopelessly prosaic and material? What is the use of having powers, doctor, when one has no field upon which to exert them? Crime

What is the meaning of it, Watson? said Holmes solemnly as he laid down the paper. What object is served by this circle of misery and violence and fear? It must tend to some end, or else our universe is ruled by chance, which is unthinkable. But what end? There is the great standing perennial problem to which human reason is as far from an answer as ever.

My mind is like a racing engine, tearing itself to pieces because it is not connected up with the work for which it was built.

De qué sirve tener talento, doctor, si no se tiene campo en el que aplicarlo?

Vestigia nulla retrorsum. Never look rearwards.

everyone by nature was suited to a particular activity, which ideally they would pursue.

Choose the duty that you can most effectively execute: that is, finally, all we can do in life.

Dun came to realize that a man whose entire purpose for living is to command a war will not want to spend his life waiting for its possibility. He was going to have one, and he was going to see to it—after all, it made military sense—that he would have it on his own terms, the ones with which he expected to win

You might contemplate the purpose of a court…" You brainless, twaddling idiot, I thought scornfully. I wished he were before me. I wished I could personally flout him and his busy searchers, and make him look like the fool he was. And watch the reaction, and walk away laughing.

Men go through life telling themselves a moment must come when they will show what they're made of. And the moment comes, and they do show. And they spend the rest of their days explaining that was neither the moment nor the true self.

I hated them anyway, and wondered why it had been worth while creating them in the first place.

La comida viene de la tierra y no podemos permitir que se quede allí y se pudra; hay que hacer algo con ella.

The Goal is what the Character wants. The Motivation is why they want it. The Conflict is the buts (roadblocks) that keep getting in the way.

I think of life itself now as a wonderful play that I've written for myself, and so my purpose is to have the utmost fun playing my part.

If so, you're liable to ask, if there's no profit in geese, why bother? Here's my answer—what else do you want me to do after working with geese all these years?