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Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.
-Johann von Goethe
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To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.
-Johann von Goethe
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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
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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
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The purpose in life is to collaborate for a common cause; the problem is nobody seems to know what it is.
-Gerhard Gschwandtner
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Many people flounder about in life because they do not have a purpose, an objective toward which to work.
-George Halas
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The longest journey is the journey inwards. Of him who has chosen his destiny, Who has started upon his quest for the source of his being.
-Dag Hammarskjold
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Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
-Dag Hammarskjold
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It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end
-Ernest Hemingway
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Many good purposes lie in the churchyard.
-Philip Henry
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Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes; lesser ones exist on wishes and inclinations.
-Kenneth Hildebrand
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Multitudes of people, drifting aimlessly to and fro without a set purpose, deny themselves such fulfillment of their capacities, and the satisfying happiness which attends it. They are not wicked, they are only shallow. They are not mean or vicious; they simply are empty -- shake them and they would rattle like gourds. They lack range, depth, and conviction. Without purpose their lives ultimately wander into the morass of dissatisfaction. As we harness our abilities to a steady purpose and undertake the long pull toward its accomplishment, rich compensations reward us. A sense of purpose simplifies life and therefore concentrates our abilities; and concentration adds power.
-Kenneth Hildebrand
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We need not only a purpose in life to give meaning to our existence but also something to give meaning to our suffering. We need as much something to suffer for as something to live for.
-Eric Hoffer
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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.
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He gains everyone's approval who mixes the pleasant with the useful.
-Horace
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The only way you can be successful on a post or win at it is to be at cause over it.
-L. Ron Hubbard
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The meaning of life is to give life meaning.
-Ken Hudgins
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Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.
-Washington Irving
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The aims of life are the best defense against death.
-Primo Levi
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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) Lichtenberg
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Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men.
-Walter Lippmann
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Fear God and work hard.
-David Livingstone
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The one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise that the one whose policy clashes with the demands of the times does not.
-Niccolo Machiavelli
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A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.
-Malcolm X
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What is the quality of your intent?
-Thurgood Marshall
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Books about Purpose
