Quotes about Purpose
The goal of Bethlehem College and Seminary cannot be expressed with man as the end point. Christ is the endpoint.
— John Piper
Life is a problem; mortal man was made to solve the solemn problem right or wrong.
— John Quincy Adams
The great end of being is to harmonize man with the order of things, and the church has been a good pitch-pipe, and may be so still.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Man is made for something better than disturbing dirt.
— Oscar Wilde
Every man is made to reach out beyond his grasp.
— Oswald Chambers
It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.
— Samuel Johnson
Perhaps man is the only being that can properly be called idle.
— Samuel Johnson
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