Quotes about Purpose
Most men die at 27, we just bury them at 72.
— Mark Twain
The secret of the Christian's passion is simple: Everything we do in life we do it as to the Lord and not to men.
— David Jeremiah
To serve the Word is to fulfill the highest function of which man is capable.
— G Campbell Morgan
If we do not catch men, we are in great danger of losing even the desire to catch them. Our purposed activity is in peril of becoming a dream.
— John Henry Jowett
I think it not improbable that man, like the grub that prepares a chamber for the winged thing it never has seen but is to be - that man may have cosmic destinies that he does not understand.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
A man's greatest care should be for that place where he lives longest; therefore eternity should be his scope.
— Thomas Watson
The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.
— Napoleon Hill
A man can be so busy making a living that he forgets to make a life.
— William Barclay
The unhappiest man on earth is the one who has nothing to do.
— Henry Ford
Without God man has no reference point to define himself.
— RC Sproul
God does not choose a person for ease and comfort and selfish joy but for a task that will take all that head and heart and hand can bring to it. God chooses a man in order to use him.
— William Barclay
God's work is not man working for God; it is God's own work, though often wrought through man's hands.
— Hudson Taylor