Quotes about Purpose
Just as a man does not desire food until he is hungry, so does he not desire the salvation of Christ until he knows why he needs Christ.
- Ezra Taft Benson
Most men go through life unchallenged, except at the final moment.
- Frank Herbert
Our true destiny is not to be ministered unto but to minister to ourselves and to our fellow men.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
For men are made for happiness, and any one who is completely happy has a right to say to himself, 'I am doing God's will on earth.'
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
It is necessary that every man have at least somewhere to go. For there are times when one absolutely must go at least somewhere!
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
It is in the hour of trial that a man finds his true profession.
- George Bernard Shaw
God created man to share friendship with Him and share in His happiness.
- Greg Koukl
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.