Quotes about Purpose
Labor, if it were not necessary for existence, would be indispensable for the happiness of man.
— Samuel Johnson
There are no weeds, and no worthless men. There are only bad farmers.
— Victor Hugo
If purpose, then, is inherent in art, so is it in Nature also. The best illustration is the case of a man being his own physician, for Nature is like that - agent and patient at once.
— Aristotle
No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
Life is a task to be done. It is a fine thing to say defunctus est; it means that the man has done his task.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
The purpose of man's life...is to become an abject zombie who serves a purpose he does not know, for reasons he is not to question.
— Ayn Rand
The most depraved type of human being ... (is) the man without a purpose.
— Ayn Rand
We were made to be neither cerebral men nor visceral men, but Men. Not beasts nor angels but Men - things at once rational and animal.
— CS Lewis
All the wide world is but the husbandry of God for the development of the one fruit-man.
— Henry Ward Beecher
All men were created to busy themselves with the labor for the common good.
— John Calvin
Man created the checkerboard; God created the karass.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose.
— DH Lawrence