Quotes about Purpose
The purpose of the church is to make bad men good and good men better.
— David O. McKay
Without a goal we are much like the man with a boat and nowhere to go. Goals give us the drive and energy we need to remain on track long enough for their accomplishment.
— Earl Nightingale
A man's true delight is to do the things he was made for.
— Marcus Aurelius
A man is most efficient and will more quickly and easily succeed when engaged in work that he loves, or work that he performs in behalf of some person whom he loves.
— Napoleon Hill
Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and to persist in affirming the worth of an end is to make an ideal.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
What God chooses for us children of men is always the best.
— Karl Barth
Men are not flattered by being shown that there has been a difference of purpose between the Almighty and them.
— Abraham Lincoln
Some men turn every quality or art into a means of making money; this they conceive to be the end, and to the promotion of the end all things must contribute.
— Aristotle
I do not understand what the man who is happy wants in order to be happier.
— Cicero
The poorest man in the world is a man without a dream.
— Myles Munroe
Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny.
— Paul Tillich
Man is unique in that, unlike animals, he knows he is going to die, and unlike animals he can do something about it.
— Ray Comfort