Quotes about Purpose
I am not built for academic writings. Action is my domain.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Purity of heart is to will one thing.
— Soren Kierkegaard
The End of every maker is himself.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
All things come to him who waits- provided he knows what he is waiting for.
— Woodrow Wilson
To do my duty in that state of life unto which it shall please God to call me.
— Anonymous
What one has, one ought to use; and whatever he does, he should do with all his might.
— Cicero
Every night before I turn out the lights to sleep, I ask myself this question: Have I done everything that I can.... Have I done enough?
— Lyndon B. Johnson
The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.
— George Eliot
Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
There goes a man made by the Lord Almighty and not by his tailor.
— Andrew Jackson
I myself must mix with action, lest I wither by despair.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.
— Herbert Hoover