Quotes about Purpose

After we've discovered what God called us to do, after we've discovered our life's work, we should set out to do that work so well that the living, the dead, or the unborn couldn't do it any better.

And when you discover what you're going to be in life, set out to do it as if God Almighty called you at this particular moment in history to do it. And

Constructive ends can never give absolute moral justification to destructive means, because in the final analysis the end is preexistent in the means.

But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation. That is why I have chosen my own particular profession,--or rather created it, for I am the only one in the world.

There lies the image of our past and of our future, cried Alleyne, as they rode on upon their way. Now, which is better, to till God's earth, to have happy faces round one's knee, and to love and be loved, or to sit forever moaning over one's own soul, like a mother over a sick babe?

Ordinary people merely think how they shall 'spend' their time; a man of talent tries to 'use' it.

What keeps all living things busy and in motion is the striving to exist. But when existence is secured, they do not know what to do: that is why the second thing that sets them in motion is a striving to get rid of the burden of existence, not to feel it any longer, 'to kill time', i.e. to escape boredom.

The ultimate aim of all love affairs ... is more important than all other aims in man's life; and therefore it is quite worthy of the profound seriousness with which everyone pursues it.

You can do what you will: but at each given moment of your life you can will only one determined thing and by no means anything other than this one.

Genius is an intellect that has become unfaithful to its destiny.

Nothing is without a reason why it is rather than it is not

What keeps all living things busy and in motion is the striving to exist. But when existence is secured, they do not know what to do: that is why the second thing that sets them in motion is a striving to get rid of the burden of existence, not to feel it any longer, 'to kill time', to escape boredom.