Quotes about Purpose

The most important thing in our lives is what we are doing now.

Only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find his right road.

Seek out that particular mental attitude which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, "This is the real me," and when you have found that attitude, follow it.

Everything keeps its best nature only by being put to its best use.

The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath.

Science must constantly be reminded that her purposes are not the only purposes and that the order of uniform causation which she has use for, and is therefore right in postulating, may be enveloped in a wider order, on which she has no claim at all.

Shall a man go and hang himself because he belongs to the race of pygmies, and not be the biggest pygmy that he can?

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

All my life I have risen regularly at four o'clock and have gone into the woods and talked to God. There He gives me my orders for the day.

The strength of a man consists in finding out the way in which God is going, and going in that way too.

The soul is awakened through service.

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.