Quotes about Purpose
A man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder - never likely to reach home port. To us comes the signal: chart your course, set your sail, position your rudder, and proceed.
— Thomas Monson
God blesses man, not for having found but for having sought.
— Victor Hugo
Man's search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.
— Viktor E. Frankl
Man hath his daily work of body or mind appointed, which declares his dignity, and the regard of Heav'n on all his ways.
— John Milton
The purpose of the church is to make bad men good and good men better.
— David O. McKay
Without a goal we are much like the man with a boat and nowhere to go. Goals give us the drive and energy we need to remain on track long enough for their accomplishment.
— Earl Nightingale
A man's true delight is to do the things he was made for.
— Marcus Aurelius
A man is most efficient and will more quickly and easily succeed when engaged in work that he loves, or work that he performs in behalf of some person whom he loves.
— Napoleon Hill
Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and to persist in affirming the worth of an end is to make an ideal.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
What God chooses for us children of men is always the best.
— Karl Barth
Men are not flattered by being shown that there has been a difference of purpose between the Almighty and them.
— Abraham Lincoln
Some men turn every quality or art into a means of making money; this they conceive to be the end, and to the promotion of the end all things must contribute.
— Aristotle