Sayings about Purpose
Accomplishment of purpose is better than making a profit. ~Nigerian Proverbs
Speak little and to the purpose. ~ Traditional Proverb
Power acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose. ~Latin Proverbs
People blame themselves for the purpose of being praised. ~ Traditional Proverb
Battle doesn’t need a purpose; the battle is its own purpose. ~ Traditional Proverb
If Heaven made him — earth can find some use for him. ~Chinese Proverbs
Begin each day as if it were on purpose. ~ Saying
Quotations about Purpose
The purpose of life is not to be happy–but to matter. ~ Leo Rosten
Having purpose and vision during retirement is one of the most important determinants of mental, social, spiritual, and physical well-being in later life. ~ Harold G. Koenig
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
What we must try to be, of course, is ourselves and wholeheartedly. We must find out what we really are and what we really want. ~ Nelson Boswell
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
The purpose of life is a life of purpose. ~ Robert Byrne
I just wake up and say, “You’re a bum, go do something worthwhile today.” ~ Garth Brooks
Purpose is what gives life a meaning. ~ Charles Henry Parkhurst
If you don’t stand up for something, you may fall for anything. ~ Les Brown
I don’t think life is absurd. I think we are all here for a huge purpose. I think we shrink from the immensity of the purpose we are here for. ~ Norman Mailer
You have to know what is right for you and go after it regardless of what others say. ~ Les Brown
What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, drama, and challenges, is a sense of purpose and meaning. ~ Barbara De Angelis
Nothing contributes so much to tranquillize the mind as a steady purpose— a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye. ~ Mary Shelley
Purpose… is held to be most closely connected with virtue, and to be a better token of our character than are even our acts. ~ Aristotle
He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers. ~ Henry Brooks Adams
Purpose is a desire for something in our own power, coupled with an investigation into its means. ~ Aristotle
Nothing is more creative … nor destructive … than a brilliant mind with a purpose. ~ Dan Brown
Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it. ~ Buddha
The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose. ~ John Mason Brown
It may be that there was no reason or purpose, for mankind must always be finding reasons where there are none, and comfort in a purpose that hardly exists. ~ Jeanette Winterson
The purpose firm is equal to the deed. ~ Edward Young
It’s only … when we’re stripped of purpose that we know who we are. ~ Samuel R. Delany
Great minds have purposes, others have wishes. ~ Washington Irving
Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it. ~ James Allen
Childhood may do without a grand purpose, but manhood cannot. ~ Josiah Gilbert Holland
No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going. ~ Oliver Cromwell
Purpose directs energy, and purpose makes energy. ~ Charles Henry Parkhurst
Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose direction and begin to bend. ~ Walter Savage Landor
To have no set purpose in one’s life is the harlotry of the will. ~ Stephen MacKenna
When through one man a little more love and goodness, a little more light and truth comes into the world, then that man’s life has had meaning. ~ Alfred Delp
There may be ways in which we can work for change. We don’t have to do dramatic things or devote our entire lives to it. We can lead normal lives but at the same time try hard not to be bystanders. ~ Helen Bamber
The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder — waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpose in life, and, having it, throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work as God has given you. ~ Thomas Carlyle
Purpose has no place in biology, but history has no meaning without it. ~ George Kubler
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
He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
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
A useless life is an early death. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Until thought is linked with purpose there is no intelligent accomplishment. ~ James Allen
If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable. ~ Seneca
Some people give time, some money, some their skills and connections, some literally give their life’s blood … but everyone has something to give. ~ Barbara Bush
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
Each of our acts makes a statement as to our purpose. ~ Leo Buscaglia
God created man on purpose, and for a purpose. ~ Zig Ziglar
If we crave some cosmic purpose, then let us find ourselves a worthy goal. ~ Carl Sagan
What am I living for and what am I dying for are the same question. ~ Margaret Atwood
Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men. ~ Walter Lippmann
An “unemployed” existence is a worse negation of life than death itself. ~ José Ortega y Gasset
Life, to be worthy of a rational being, must be always in progression; we must always purpose to do more or better than in time past. ~ Samuel Johnson
We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years, and justify our existence… on pain of liquidation. ~ George Bernard Shaw
Never be afraid to treat the path alone. Know which is your path and follow it wherever it may lead you; do not feel you have to follow in someone else’s footsteps. ~ Gita Bellin
To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life. ~ Alan Coren
The man who is happy is fulfilling the purpose of existence. ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Ah, only he who knows where he sails, knows what wind is good, and a fair wind for him. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
All persons are puzzles until at last we find in some word or act the key to the man, to the woman; straightway all their past words and actions lie in light before us. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Irrigators guide water; arrow-makers straighten arrows; carpenters bend wood; wise people shape themselves. ~ Buddha
When you walk in purpose, you collide with destiny. ~ Ralph Buchanan
The purpose of man is in action not thought. ~ Thomas Carlyle
The purposes of the Almighty are perfect, and must prevail, though we erring mortals may fail to accurately perceive them in advance. ~ Abraham Lincoln
From the first, I made my learning, what little it was, useful every way I could. ~ Mary McLeod Bethune
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