Quotes about Purpose
Love leads to misery. Love is a very ancient force, which served its purpose in its day but no longer is essential for the survival of the species. Remember that woman's mistake, the pain.
— Frank Herbert
Humans live best when each has his own place, when each knows where he belongs in the scheme of things. Destroy the place and destroy the person
— Frank Herbert
Humans live best when each has his own place, when each knows where he belongs in the scheme of things.
— Frank Herbert
Knowledge, you see, has no uses without purpose, but purpose is what builds enclosing walls.
— Frank Herbert
When God hath ordained a creature to die in a particular place. He causes that creature's wants to direct him to that place.
— Frank Herbert
Humans live best when each has his own place, when each knows where he belongs in the scheme of things. Destroy the place and destroy the person. You and I, Thufir, of all those who love the Duke, are most ideally situated to destroy the other's place.
— Frank Herbert
Let us not bandy philosophical nonsense. Every question can be boiled down to the one: 'Why is there anything?' Every religious, business and governmental question has the single derivative: 'Who will exercise the power?
— Frank Herbert
In short, the goal of the gospel is not to get you out of hell and into heaven, but to get God out of heaven and into you so that He may be displayed visibly and glorified in His creation.
— Frank Viola
It is the depravity of institutions and movements that given in the beginning to express life, they often end in throttling that very life. Therefore, they need constant review, perpetual criticism and continuous bringing back to the original purposes and spirit.
— Frank Viola
The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.
— William James
If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it.
— Jim Rohn