Purpose Quotes

It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.

Andre Gide

Many people flounder about in life because they do not have a purpose, an objective toward which to work.

George Halas

They are not only idle who do nothing, but they are idle also who might be better employed.

Socrates

If you don't stand up for something, you may fall for anything.

Les Brown

Knowing our personal mission further enhances the flow of mysterious coincidences as we are guided toward our destinies. First we have a question, then dreams, daydreams, and intuitions lead us toward the answers, which usually are synchronistically provided by the wisdom of another human being.

James Redfield

To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do.

Pau (Pablo) Casals

A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.

Malcolm X

I know of no such unquestionable badge and ensign of a sovereign mind as that of tenacity of purpose...

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men achieve a certain greatness unawares, when working to another aim.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.

Michel de Montaigne

The great and glorious masterpiece of man is how to live with purpose.

Michel de Montaigne

I think that a lot of women are made to feel that they have not done the one thing that they were put on the earth to do if they didn't do the normal thing, if they didn't take the most traveled path. And it's unfortunate.

Nanci Griffith

You can come to understand your purpose in life by slowing down and feeling your heart's desires.

Marcia Wieder

We know there is intention and purpose in the universe, because there is intention and purpose in us.

George Bernard Shaw

At a turbulent public meeting once I lost my temper and said some harsh and sarcastic things. The proposal I was supporting was promptly defeated. My father who was there, said nothing, but that night, on my pillow I found a marked passage from Aristotle: Anybody can become angry--that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way -- that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.

Arthur Gordon

Battle doesn't need a purpose; the battle is its own purpose.

Proverb

It doesn't matter what you did or where you were...it matters where you are and what you're doing. Get out there! Sing the song in your heart and NEVER let anyone shut you up!!

Steve Maraboli

The most fortunate of us, in our journey through life, frequently meet with calamities and misfortunes which may greatly afflict us; and, to fortify our minds against the attacks of these calamities and misfortunes should be one of the principal studies and endeavors of our lives. The only method of doing this is to assume a perfect resignation to the Divine will, to consider that whatever does happen, must happen; and that, by our uneasiness, we cannot prevent the blow before it does fall, but we may add to its force after it has fallen. These considerations, and others such as these, may enable us in some measure to surmount the difficulties thrown in our way; to bear up with a tolerable degree of patience under the burden of life; and to proceed with a pious and unshaken resignation, till we arrive at our journey's end.

Thomas Jefferson

Art is a human activity having for its purpose the transmission to others of the highest and best feelings to which men have risen.

Leo Tolstoy