Our thought has acquired many bad habits, and one of them is thinking without purpose. Our thinking has become automatic; we are quite satisfied if we think of and develop possible side-issues without having any idea why we are doing it. From the point of view of this system such thinking is useless. All study, all thinking and investigation must have one aim, one purpose in view, and this aim must be attaining consciousness.

Without a sense of purpose, no company, either public or private, can achieve its full potential.

You will never have a definite purpose in life, you will never have self-confidence, you will never have initiative and leadership unless you first create these qualities in your imagination and see yourself in possession of them.

We cannot think any true thought unless we want the true. Thinking is itself an aspect of practice.

Nothing happens or comes to be without being thought first:

Thoughts should serve a useful purpose. If they don’t, they’re useless. That’s straight thinking.

Thoughts should serve a useful purpose. If they don’t, they’re useless.

What I’m telling you is, productivity is meaningless unless you know what your goal is,” he says.

No education deserves the name, unless it develops thought,—unless it pierces down to the mysterious spiritual principle of mind, and starts that into activity and growth.

Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt.

Thinkers think and doers do. But until the thinkers do and the doers think, progress will be just another word in the already overburdened vocabulary by sense.

We cannot expect to gain true knowledge without acting upon our ideas.

Action, you see, is the end that thought achieves. Action is its only purpose. What else is it good for? If we don't act, it's worthless.

It is never until one realizes that one means something to others that one feels there is any point or purpose in one's own existence.