Purpose Quotes

Are we interested in sight seeing or soul saving?

Source Unknown

Pep without purpose is piffle.

Source Unknown

Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance.

Friedrich von Schiller

The crowning blessing of life is to be born with a bias to some pursuit.

S. G. Tallentyre

His designs were strictly honorable, as the phrase is; that is, to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage.

Henry Fielding

The greatest events occur without intention playing any part in them; chance makes good mistakes and undoes the most carefully planned undertaking. The world's greatest events are not produced, they happen.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

Your cause belongs to those that can avenge your wrongs.

Winkworth

What we determine we often break. Purpose is but the slave to memory.

William Shakespeare

I just wake up and say, You're a bum, go do something worthwhile today.

Garth Brooks

For I say unto you in all sadness of conviction that to think great thoughts you must be heroes as well as idealists. Only when you have worked alone -- when you have felt around you are a black gulf of solitude more isolating than that which surrounds the dying man, and in hope and despair have trusted to your own unshaken will -- then only can you gain the secret isolated joy of the thinker, who knows that a hundred years after he is dead and forgotten men who have never heard of him will be moving to the measure of his thought -- the subtle rapture of postponed power, which the world knows not because it has no external trappings, but which to his prophetic vision is more real than that which commands an army. And if this joy should not be yours, still it is only thus you can know that you have done what lay in you to do -- can say that you have lived, and be ready for the end.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

George Eliot

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

George Eliot

I am sure of nothing so little as my own intentions.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron