Quotes about Purpose
Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die and do not outlive yourself.
— George Bernard Shaw
The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.
— George Eliot
Writing is a calling, not a choice.
— Isabel Allende
Prayer in a combat zone serves exactly the same purpose as it does in peacetime. In war, the stakes are life and death, true; but if you believe in God and in the notion of a human soul, then we are always making decisions of tremendous significance.
— Phil Klay
God asks no man whether he will accept life. This is not the choice. You must take it. The only question is how.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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