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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


Worry ducks when purpose flies overhead.  ~C. Astrid Weber


When he walks he casts a shadow of purpose.  ~Emme Woodhull-Bäche


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


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

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