Aim Quote by Karl G. Maeser

A man with a half volition goes backwards and forwards, and makes no way on the smoothest road; a man with a whole volition…

— Thomas Carlyle

The man without a purpose is a man who drifts at the mercy of random feelings or unidentified urges and is capable of any…

— Ayn Rand

One who neglects or disregards the existence of earth, air, fire, water and vegetation disregards his own existence which is entwined with them.

— Mahavira

A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work,…

— Anonymous

“To be possessed of no more than momentary existence, and to have even that momentary existence filled up with more evil than good; to…

— Augustus Toplady

He whose inflowing thoughts are dried up, who is unattached to food, whose dwelling place is an empty and imageless release - the way…

— Gautama Buddha

Without a conscious life-purpose a man is totally lost, drifting, adapting to events rather than creating events. Without knowing his life-purpose a man lives…

— David Deida

“You must have purpose in your life. A person without purpose is like a mighty river without its source, a soaring tree without its…

— Val Edward Simone

A man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder - never likely to reach home port. To us comes the signal:…

— Thomas S. Monson

The absence of temptation is the absence of virtue.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The man whose whole activity is diverted to inner meditation becomes insensible to all his surroundings. His passions are mere appearances, being sterile. They…

— Emile Durkheim

Life is a vexatious trap; when a thinking man reaches maturity and attains to full consciousness he cannot help feeling that he is in…

— Anton Chekhov