John Dewey Quotes

I always have a reason for why I do something.

I like everything I do to have some kind of meaning.

Anything I do, I always have a reason for.

Do you serve a purpose, or purposely serve?

To live consciously means to seek to be aware of everything that bears on our actions, purposes, values, and goals—to the best of our ability, whatever that ability may be—and to behave in accordance with that which we see and know.

Who are you now? Who have you decided to become? Make this decision consciously. Make it carefully. Make it powerfully. Then act upon it.

I would have to think about it for two or three months before I decided to do something which would have meaning. And it would have to be more than just an impression or pleasure. I would need an objective, a meaning. That is the only thing that could help me.

Everything that I decide to do means something, otherwise I don't do them.

When you know your intention, you are in a position to choose the consequences that you will create for yourself. When you choose an intention that creates consequences for which you are willing to be responsible, that is a responsible choice.

There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

Have a very good reason for everything you do.

The big thing is that you know what you want.

Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

I don't want to put meaning on what I do because I don't know what it is.

No matter what decision I make, I want people to know that there's a reason I made it, and it's because it was something I felt like needed to happen. I don't want people to think that I've just gone crazy.

If you knew what you were doing, that it would hinder you, you wouldn't do it.

I don't want to do things to do things. I want them all to make sense to me.

In this era, soul is not a sound or a color: it's an intention.

I know what I have to do in order to do good.

Each of our acts makes a statement as to our purpose.

You get to choose what you want, but you must get clear about what you want.

It didn't take long to realize I didn't hardly know nothing. And that if you ast yourself why you black or a man or a woman or a bush it don't mean nothing if you don't ast why you here, period

Don't get too comfortable. We are here for a certain period of time, and how much of your life are you gonna choose to spend with distractions? How do you make your choices? What is important?

What is the why behind everything you do?

No acts are random or wasted.