Purposefulness Quotes

What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.

Ambition is an uncomfortable companion many times. He creates a discontent with present surroundings and achievements; he is never satisfied but always pressing forward to better things in the future. Restless, energetic, purposeful, it is ambition that makes of the creature a real man.

He who saddens at thought of idleness cannot be idle, / And he's awake who thinks himself asleep.

Nature never writes a blind hand.

When I went to school, it was right after the '60s and before this general wave of practical purposefulness had set in.... The idealistic wind of the '60s was still at our backs, though, and most of the people I know who are my age have that engrained in them forever.

If you want to be great in what you're doing, you really need to limit yourself, so I consider my life as the life of a monk.

Anything I do, I always have a reason for.

Meaningful work is very different than drudgery.

Christmas can be the end of emptiness and waywardness; The beginning of happiness and purposefulness.

Concentrate on something useful. Having decided to achieve a task, achieve it at all costs.

To be constant is to be useful. To be useful is to realize one's true nature. Realization of one's true nature is happiness. When one reaches happiness, one is close to perfection.

There's been a thoughtfulness to everything I do. Even the stupidest things I do have some kind of point.

I walk fast. I have an aversion to wasting time. My sense of constant motion is one of the reasons that my eldest daughter, Amy, nicknamed me 'the Tasmanian Devil' when she was in her teens.

Twentieth century man must boldly reach out... And purposefully strive to discover the hidden secrets of our universe.

When we accept any discipline for ourselves, we try to avoid everything except that which is necessary for our purpose; it is this purposefulness, which belongs to the adult mind, that we force upon school children. We say, "Never keep your mind aler.

Reason is a bee, and exists only on what it makes; his usefulness takes the place of beauty.

Perhaps basketball and poetry have just a few things in common, but the most important is the possibility of transcendence. The opposite is labor. In writing, every writer knows when he or she is laboring to achieve an effect. You want to get from here to there, but find yourself willing it, forcing it. The equivalent in basketball is aiming your shot, a kind of strained and usually ineffective purposefulness. What you want is to be in some kind of flow, each next moment a discovery.

There is nothing quite as potent as a focused life, one lived on purpose.

The great isn't something accidental; it must be willed.

Let no act be done without purpose.

By puberty I learned that nothing worth having could be easily attained and to succeed one must be single minded.

[What for] was the first question he asked about any activity proposed to him - and nothing would make him act, if he found no valid answer. He flew through the days of his summer month like a rocket, but if one stopped him in mid-flight, he could always name the purpose of his every random moment. Two things were impossible to him: to stand still or to move aimlessly.

At the core of life is a hard purposefulness, a determination to live.

Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.