Quotes about Purpose
I do not understand what the man who is happy wants in order to be happier.
— Cicero
The poorest man in the world is a man without a dream.
— Myles Munroe
Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny.
— Paul Tillich
Man is unique in that, unlike animals, he knows he is going to die, and unlike animals he can do something about it.
— Ray Comfort
One aged man - one man - can't fill a house.
— Robert Frost
A man without ambition is worse than dough that has no yeast in it to raise it.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Take away God and religion, and men live to no purpose, without proposing any worthy end of life to themselves.
— John Tillotson
Man lives more by affirmation than by bread.
— Victor Hugo
The world has yet to see what God will do with a man fully consecrated to Him. By God's help, I aim to be that man.
— DL Moody
If then nature makes nothing without some end in view, nothing to no purpose, it must be that nature has made all of them for the sake of man.
— Aristotle
The only proper purpose of a government is to protect man's rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence.
— Ayn Rand
What is man? Ally of God or simply his toy? His triumph or his fall?
— Elie Wiesel