Purpose Quotes
Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose direction and begin to bend. ~Walter Savage Landor
The purpose of life is a life of purpose. ~Robert Byrne
To have no set purpose in one’s life is the harlotry of the will. ~Stephen MacKenna
Great minds have purposes, others have wishes. ~Washington Irving
We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years, and justify our existence… on pain of liquidation. ~George Bernard Shaw
An “unemployed” existence is a worse negation of life than death itself. ~José Ortega y Gasset
A useless life is an early death. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Worry ducks when purpose flies overhead. ~C. Astrid Weber
When he walks he casts a shadow of purpose. ~Emme Woodhull-Bäche
I love the valiant; but it is not enough to wield a broadsword, one must also know against whom. ~Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra, 1892
When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind. ~Seneca
This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. ~George Bernard Shaw
To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life. ~Alan Coren, The Sanity Inspector, 1974
If Heaven made him - earth can find some use for him. ~Chinese Proverb
