Quotes on PurposeJuly 21st, 2007
“A purpose is the eternal condition of success.”
Theodore T. Munger
“Have a purpose in life, and having it, throw into your work such strength of mind and muscle as God has given you.”
Thomas Carlyle
“Purpose is what gives life meaning.”
Charles Henry Parkhurst, D.D.
“The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder — a wait, a nothing, a no man.”
Thomas Carlyle
“The purpose of life is to believe, to hope and to strive.”
Indira Gandhi
“Find a purpose in life so big it will challenge every capacity to be at your best.”
David O. McKay
“He who wishes to fulfill his mission in the world must be a man of one idea, that is, of one great overmastering purpose, overshadowing all his aims, and guiding and controlling his entire life.”
Julius Bate
“What men want is not talent, it is purpose; in other words, not the power to achieve, but will to labor. I believe that labor judiciously and continuously applied becomes genius.”
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
“āEverything — a horse, a vine –is created for some duty…For what task, then, were you yourself created? A man’s true delight is to do the things he was made for.”
Marcus Aurelius
“To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment.”
James Lane Allen