PURPOSE

Related Subjects: Decision, End, Intention, Reason, Will

1. Purposeless activity may be a phase of death.—PEARL BUCK, I Believe
   

2. No good fish goes anywhere without a porpoise.—LEWIS CARROLL, Alice in Wonderland
   

3. He trudg'd along unknowing what he sought,
   And whistled as he went, for want of thought.—DRYDEN, Cyncon & Iphigenia
   

4. Life has a value only when it has something as its object.—HEGEL
   

5. Hedda's despair is that there are doubtless so many chances of happiness in the world, but that she cannot discover them. It is the want of an object in life that torments her.—IBSEN, Hedda Gabler: Notes
   

6. Show us not the aim without the way.
   For ends and means on earth are so entangled
   That changing one, you change the other too;
   Each different path brings other ends in View.—FERDINAND LASSALE, Franz von Sickingen
   

7. I feel myself driven towards an end that I do not know. As soon as I shall have reached it, as soon as I shall become unnecessary, an atom will suffice to shatter me.—NAPOLEON, in Russia
   

8. Drift is as bad as unthrift.—Proverb
   

9. My purpose is, indeed, a horse of that colour.—SHAKESPEARE, Twelfth Night
   

10. That no compunctious visitings of nature
    Shake my fell purpose.—SHAKESPEARE, Macbeth
    

11. What, pray, is there to do with one's life in this twentieth century of ours except to take part in the struggle to build a world of security and peace?—JOHN STRACHEY, I Believe
    

12. Thy purpose firm is equal to the deed:
    Who does the best his circumstance allows
    Does well, acts nobly; angels could do no more.—EDWARD YOUNG, Night Thoughts