Quotes on purpose
The purpose of life is a life of purpose.
Byrne, Robert
A useless life is an early death.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
If Heaven made him - earth can find some use for him.
Proverb, Chinese
To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life.
Hoffer, Eric
Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
Landor, Walter Savage
An "unemployed" existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.
Gasset, José Ortega
To have no set purpose in one's life is the harlotry of the will.
MacKenna, Stephen
I love the valiant; but it is not enough to wield a broadsword, one must also know against whom.
Nietzsche, Friedrich
Great minds have purposes, others have wishes.
Irving, Washington
We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years, and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation.
Shaw, George Bernard
When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus
Worry ducks when purpose flies overhead.
Weber, C. Astrid