Quotes about Purpose

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.

Bad will be the day for every man when he becomes absolutely contented with the life he is living, when there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger.

Remember, if God had wanted this to be perfect, he never would have had me up here.

Study as if you were to live forever. Live as if you were to die tomorrow.

One of the greatest evils of the day among those outside of prison is their sense of futility. Young people say, What is the sense of our small effort? They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time; we can be responsible only for the one action of the present moment.

If, after all, men cannot always make history have a meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.

The worst sin-perhaps the only sin- passion can commit is to be joyless.