purpose Quotes

It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything.

My trade and art is to live.

No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.

The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.

The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.

I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.

The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.

Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything.

The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the righteous are like carvings upon stone, For their smallest act is durable.