The purpose of life
Is a life of purpose.
- Robert Byrne
More men fail through
Lack of purpose
Than lack of talent.
- Billy Sunday
A great river is not aimless.
It has direction and purpose.
So also must a good life
Have a definite aim;
All its strength and fullness
Must be turned in one direction.
To many the whole object
Of life is work.
Ask a man what he is doing
With his life and ninety-nine
Times out of a hundred
He will reply by telling you
His trade or profession.
- Grenville Kleiser
Have a purpose for everything
You do.
Study, work, travel, etc.…
Live for a purpose.
- A.A.M.
The purpose of human life
Is to serve,
And to show compassion
And the will to help others.
- Albert Schewitzer
Success…
Success is reached by
Being active, awake,
ahead of the crowd,
By aiming high,
pushing ahead,
honestly, diligently,
patiently,
by climbing, digging,
saving;
by forgetting the past,
using the present,
trusting in the future;
by honoring God,
having a purpose,
fainting not,
determining to win,
And striving to the end.
- Russell Conwell
Doing Nothing…
He made no mistakes;
He took no wrong turns,
He never fumbled the ball.
He never went down
‘neath the weight of the load,
He simply did nothing at all.
He lost no hard fight
In defense of the right,
He never bled
With his back to the wall,
He never felt faint
In his climb to the light,
He simply did nothing at all.
So death came neigh,
Life had slipped by,
He feared for the judgment hall.
And when asked why,
He said with a sigh,
“I’ve done nothing at all.”
O, God will pardon your blunders,
My friends,
Or regard with pity your fall,
But the one great sell,
That surely means Hell,
Is simply to do nothing at all.
- Anonymous
Via Beacon 06/26/2006
When I read this poem I couldn’t
Help but think about the one talent
Man in the scriptures…
24 The one who had received one piece of money worth
much came. He said, ‘Sir, I know that you are a hard man.
You gather grain where you have not planted.
You take up where you have not spread out.
25 I was afraid and I hid your money in the ground.
See! Here is your money.’
26 His owner said to him, ‘You bad and lazy servant.
You knew that I gather grain where I have not planted.
You knew that I take up where I have not spread out.
27 You should have taken my money to the bank.
When I came back, I could have had my own money
and what the bank paid for using it.
28 Take the one piece of money from him.
Give it to the one who has ten pieces of money.’
29 For the man who has will have more given to him.
He will have more than enough. The man who has nothing,
even what he has will be taken away.
30 Throw the bad servant out into the darkness.
There will be loud crying and grinding of teeth.
- Matthew 25:24-30 TLV
