Quotes about Purpose
Often does good come out of evil. But that is God's, not man's plan.
— Mahatma Gandhi
[JF] Kennedy was a deceitful man. He was a cold-blooded politician whose purpose was to get elected.
— Malcolm X
Understand however that every man is worth just so much as the things are worth about which he busies himself.
— Marcus Aurelius
The man of science dissects the statement, verifies the facts, and demonstrates connection even where he cannot its purpose.
— Margaret Fuller
If a man hasn't found anything worth dying for, he hasn't anything worth living for.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
A man who hasn't found anything he'd die for doesn't deserve to live.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
The space that every man occupies in the world is measured by the faith he expresses in connection with his aims and purposes.
— Napoleon Hill
What men call accident is God's own part.
— Philip James Bailey
Every man is not so much a workman in the world as he is a suggestion of that he should be. Men walk as prophecies of the next age.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
When a man loses his vision of the future he dies.
— Richard Paul Evans
The strongest wind cannot stagger a Spirit; it is a Spirit's breath. A just man's purpose cannot be split on any Grampus or material rock, but itself will split rocks till it succeeds.
— Henry David Thoreau
There is considerable danger that a man will be crazy between dinner and supper; but it will not directly answer any good purposethat I know of, and it is just as easy to be sane.
— Henry David Thoreau