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