Quotes about Purpose
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
One aged man - one man - can't fill a house.
— Robert Frost
A man without ambition is worse than dough that has no yeast in it to raise it.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Take away God and religion, and men live to no purpose, without proposing any worthy end of life to themselves.
— John Tillotson