Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
~Walter Savage Landor

The purpose of life is a life of purpose.
~Robert Byrne

To have no set purpose in one's life is the harlotry of the will.
~Stephen MacKenna

Great minds have purposes, others have wishes.
~Washington Irving

We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years, and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation.
~George Bernard Shaw

An "unemployed" existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.
~José Ortega y Gasset

A useless life is an early death.
~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When he walks he casts a shadow of purpose.
~Terri Guillemets

I love the valiant; but it is not enough to wield a broadsword, one must also know against whom.
~Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra, 1892

There is a purpose to our lives that each day tugs at our sleeve as an annoying distrPurpose.
~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com

We all possess the thunder of pure fury and the calm breeze of tranquility. If it wasn't for tomorrow, how much would we get done today? Whatever your purpose... embrace it completely. Get lost in the clouds every now and then so you never lose sight of God's wonder.
~Paul Vitale

When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
~Seneca

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

To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life.
~Alan Coren, The Sanity Inspector, 1974

If Heaven made him - earth can find some use for him.
~Chinese Proverb