PURPOSE QUOTES
quotations about purpose
Does not the latent feeling that much of their striving is to no purpose tend to infuse large quantities of sham into men's work?
WILLIAM ALLINGHAM
A Diary
Until thought is linked with purpose there is no intelligent accomplishment.
JAMES ALLEN
As a Man Thinketh
What men want is not talent, it is purpose; in other words, not the power to achieve but the will to labour.
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON
Lucretia; or, The children of Night
Now I shall be of some use in the world, as every one ought to be; it is the only way to be happy.
HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN
"The Flax"
If we crave some cosmic purpose, then let us find ourselves a worthy goal.
CARL SAGAN
Pale Blue Dot
Ah, only he who knows where he sails, knows what wind is good, and a fair wind for him.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
I would rather work with five people who really believe in what they are doing rather than five hundred who can't see the point.
PATRICK DIXON
Building a Better Business
There's no escaping reason, no denying purpose, for as we both know, without purpose we would not exist. It is purpose that created us, purpose that connects us, purpose that pulls us, that guides us, that drives us; it is purpose that defines us, purpose that binds us.
LILLY & LANA WACHOWSKI
The Matrix Reloaded
My purpose in life--despite what fashion magazines say--is something more sublime than just looking good for men.
YASMIN MOGAHED
Reclaim Your Heart
I have never done anything in my life that did not have a purpose, usually hidden, sometimes even from myself.
JOHN BANVILLE
The Untouchable
Great minds have purposes, others have wishes.
WASHINGTON IRVING
attributed, Business Philosopher, 1913
Perchance it is that work, definite, useful activity, and along with it the satisfaction of accomplishment, is necessary to growth and development, and unquestionably growth, development, attainment is the purpose, the object of life. However this may be, we know one thing, that we always feel better when we can look back when night comes and feel that the day has been good in accomplishment, or at least in effort.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Thoughts I Met on the Highway and Other Truths
It's only ... when we're stripped of purpose that we know who we are.
SAMUEL R. DELANY
Dhalgren
He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
Twilight of the Idols
They who have no central purpose in their life fall an easy prey to petty worries, fears, troubles, and self-pitying, all of which are indications of weakness, which lead, just as surely as deliberately planned sins (though by a different route), to failure, unhappiness, and loss, for weakness cannot persist in a power evolving universe.
JAMES ALLEN
As a Man Thinketh
We all engage in purposeful activity, and we judge ourselves and others in terms of success in achieving the purposes that we set before ourselves. Yet we accept as the final product of this purposeful activity a picture of the world from which purpose has been eliminated. Purpose is a meaningful concept in relation to our own consciousness of ourselves, but it is allowed no place in our understanding of the world of facts.
LESSLIE NEWBIGIN
Foolishness of the Greeks: Gospel and Western Culture
If we want greater clarity in our purpose or deeper and more meaningful spiritual lives, vulnerability is the path.
BRENE BROWN
Daring Greatly
God created man on purpose, and for a purpose.
ZIG ZIGLAR
The One Year Daily Insights with Zig Ziglar
Give a man health and a course to steer; and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
Captain Brassbound's Conversion
Nothing is more creative ... nor destructive ... than a brilliant mind with a purpose.
DAN BROWN
Inferno