“Better to die of something than to die in old age of nothing.”
“Don't become a wandering generality. Be a meaningful specific.”
“If you don't stand up for something, you may fall for anything.”
“It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.”
“Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.”
“Be the business never so painful, you may have it done for money.”
“Everything happens for a reason and a purpose, and it serves you.”
“You, betrayed by time and space, Seek and find your proper place.”
“To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.”
“Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.”
“What we determine we often break. Purpose is but the slave to memory.”
“Men achieve a certain greatness unawares, when working to another aim.”
“The great and glorious masterpiece of man is how to live with purpose.”
“The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.”
“The crowning blessing of life is to be born with a bias to some pursuit.”
“Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.”
“I just wake up and say, ''You're a bum, go do something worthwhile today.''”
“The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.”
“The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do.”
“The secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for.”
“Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.”
“The only way you can be successful on a post or win at it is to be at cause over it.”
“The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.”
“You have to know what is right for you and go after it regardless of what others say.”
“Many men go fishing their entire lives without knowing it is not fish they are after.”
“Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.”
“Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.”
“The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.”
“Lack of something to feel important about is almost the greatest tragedy a man may have.”
“Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?”