purpose

Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.

—Thomas Edison

“If you want to try your luck at speculation, put aside a portion—the smaller the better—of your capital in a separate fund for this purpose… Never mingle your speculative and investment operations in the same account, nor in any part of your thinking.”

— Benjamin Graham

A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose.

—Immanuel Kant

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

—Carl Jung

One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don’t throw it away.

—Stephen Hawking

One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don’t throw it away.

—Stephen Hawking

It is possible to lose ground because of some private refusal to the will of God at the point where it crossed our natural will, and if this happens, the Lord cannot fulfill His purpose in us.

—Amy Carmichael

Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. If you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don’t throw it away.

—Stephen Hawking

The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.

—Aldous Huxley

A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.

—John Milton

The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.

—Pablo Picasso

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is only the enlightened ruler and the wise general who will use the highest intelligence of the army for the purposes of spying, and thereby they achieve great results.

—Sun Tzu

If the immediate and direct purpose of our life is not suffering then our existence is the most ill-adapted to its purpose in the world.

—Arthur Schopenhauer

Our God DOES satisfy. I think sometimes He has to draw us into strange experiences in order that we shall prove Him to the uttermost, for some purpose out of sight.

—Amy Carmichael

Do not sleep under a roof. Carry no money or food. Go alone to places frightening to the common brand of men. Become a criminal of purpose. Be put in jail, and extricate yourself by your own wisdom.

—Miyamoto Musashi

It surprises me how disinterested we are today about things like physics, space, the universe and philosophy of our existence, our purpose, our final destination. Its a crazy world out there. Be curious.

—Stephen Hawking

Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose.

—Leonardo Da Vinci

Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. If you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don’t throw it away.

—Stephen Hawking

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.

—Aristotle

I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.

—Charlie Chaplin

It is in changing that we find purpose.

—Heraclitus

To restore the beauty of God’s world, God sent the Redeemer to put all things back to its creative purpose.

—AW Tozer

Not only is the whole course of history known to God, and His purpose for the Church made plain, but what he has decreed will most certainly come to pass.

—Martyn Lloyd-Jones

All history is being directed by God in order to bring his own purpose with respect to the kingdom to pass.

—Martyn Lloyd-Jones

I know of no better life purpose than to perish in attempting the great and the impossible.

—Friedrich Nietzsche

Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.

—Thomas Edison

“We believe in a God of purposes and plans.

He has not left a blind fate to terrorize the world.”

Charles Spurgeon

“But for what purpose was the earth formed?” asked Candide. “To drive us mad,” replied Martin.”

—Voltaire

All endeavours, all attempts for communion with God, without the supplies of the Spirit of supplications, without his effectual working in the heart, is of no value, nor to any purpose.

—John Owen