Quotes about Purpose
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
Shall a man go and hang himself because he belongs to the race of pygmies, and not be the biggest pygmie that he can? Let everyone mind his own business, and endeavor to be what he was made
- Henry David Thoreau
Men have a singular desire to be good without being good for anything, because, perchance, they think vaguely that so it will be good for them in the end.
- Henry David Thoreau
Religion is only another word for the right use of a man's whole self, instead of a wrong use of himself.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Man is that name of power which rises above them all, and gives to every one the right to be that which God meant he should be.
- Henry Ward Beecher
It takes a man to make a devil; and the fittest man for such a purpose is a snarling, waspish, red-hot, fiery creditor.
- Henry Ward Beecher