Purpose Quotes

"The object in war is to attain a better peace."

B. H. Liddell Hart

"We do not seek peace in order to be at war, but we go to war that we may have peace."

Saint Augustine

"The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them."

Michel de Montaigne

"The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for."

"The unexamined life is not worth living."

"The great end of life is not knowledge but action."

Thomas Henry Huxley

"First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do."

"What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?"

George Eliot

"What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make."

Jane Goodall

"My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style."

"Life need not be easy, provided only that it is not empty."

Lise Meitner

"When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music."

Kahlil Gibran

"Work keeps at bay three great evils: boredom, vice, and need."

Voltaire

"Work is about a search for daily meaning as well as daily bread, for recognition as well as cash."

Studs Terkel

"Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness."

Thomas Carlyle

"There are some who question the relevance of space activities in a developing nation. To us, there is no ambiguity of purpose."

Vikram Sarabhai

"They alone live who live for others."

"Work without faith is like an attempt to reach the bottom of a bottomless pit."

"Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it."

Stephen Hawking

"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does."

William James

"We should certainly count our blessings, but we should also make our blessings count."

Neal A. Maxwell

"Live your life by a compass, not a clock."

Stephen Covey

"Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it."

"Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons."

R. Buckminster Fuller

"We must be second to none in the application of advanced technologies to the real problems of man and society."

Vikram Sarabhai