Purpose

Quote link. Other quotes about: people life deep Other quotes by Albert Einstein.: "How strange is the lot of us mortals Each of us is here for a brief sojourn for what purpose he knows not, though he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people."
Quote link. Other quotes about: duty power Other quotes by Albert Einstein.: "We scientists, whose tragic destiny it has been to make the methods of annihilation ever more gruesome and more effective, must consider it our solemn and transcendent duty to do all in our power in preventing these weapons from being used for the brutal purpose for which they were invented."
Quote link. Other quotes about: human world Other quotes by Ruth Benedict.: "The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences."
Quote link. Other quotes about: live mind grow Other quotes by Morris Adler.: "The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live."
Quote link. Other quotes about: bad sin single Other quotes by William Adams.: "You can have anything you want--if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose."
Quote link. Other quotes about: die first time Other quotes by Roger Anderson.: "Christ's first coming was to fulfill a mission, a purpose. He came to suffer, die, and be raised again. These happened and yielded results effective for the present time and into eternity."
Quote link. Other quotes about: children love child Other quotes by Don Barthelme.: "The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love."
Quote link. Other quotes about: happiness Other quotes by John Mason Brown.: "The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose."
Quote link. Other quotes about: life education Other quotes by John Mason Brown.: "She knows what is the best purpose of education not to be frightened by the best but to treat it as part of daily life."
Quote link. Other quotes about: world never people today Other quotes by George Herbert Walker Bush.: "America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world."
Quote link. Other quotes about: power world people Other quotes by George Herbert Walker Bush.: "Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people."
Quote link. Other quotes about: death live Other quotes by Sir Thomas Bowell Buxton.: "The longer I live, the more I am certain that the great difference between the great and the insignificant, is energy - invincible determination--a purpose once fixed, and then death or victory."
Quote link. Other quotes about: reason plans ideas Other quotes by Steven Patrick Callahan.: "Dreams, ideas, and plans not only are an escape, they give me purpose, a reason to hang on."
Quote link. Other quotes about: americans america good forget hard Other quotes by William Jefferson Clinton.: "I am often troubled as I try hard here to create a new sense of common purpose ... that sometimes we forget that we are all in this because we are seeking a good that helps all Americans."
Quote link. Other quotes about: life Other quotes by Alen Coren.: "To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life."
Quote link. Other quotes about: happy live Other quotes by The 14th. Dalai Lama.: "The purpose of our lives is to be happy."
Quote link. Other quotes about: nothing good evil Other quotes by Charles Robert Darwin.: "The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference."
Quote link. Other quotes about: happiness Other quotes by William Cowper.: "The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose."
Quote link. Other quotes about: today Other quotes by Bette Davis.: "My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today I knew it then as purpose."
Quote link. Other quotes about: human good evil hard Other quotes by Richard Dawkins.: "Nature is not cruel, pitilessly, indifferent. This is one of the hardest lessons for humans to learn. We cannot admit that things might be neither good nor evil, neither cruel nor kind, but simply callous -- indifferent to all suffering, lacking all purpose."
Quote link. Other quotes by Tryon Edwards.: "Thoughts lead on to purposes purposes go forth in action actions form habits habits decide character and character fixes our destiny."
Quote link. Other quotes about: light deep Other quotes by Sophia Blanche Lyon Fahs.: "Life becomes religious whenever we make it so when some new light is seen, when some deeper appreciation is felt, when some larger outlook is gained, when some nobler purpose is formed, when some task is well done."
Quote link. Other quotes about: child Other quotes by Dennis Fakes.: "Any child can tell you that the sole purpose of a middle name is so he can tell when he's really in trouble."
Quote link. Other quotes about: human day house need grow Other quotes by Betty Naomi Friedan.: "American housewives have not had their brains shot away, nor are they schizophrenic in the clinical sense. But if ... the fundamental human drive is not the urge for pleasure or the satisfaction of biological needs, but the need to grow and to realize one's full potential, their comfortable, empty, purposeless days are indeed cause for a nameless terror."
Quote link. Other quotes about: rest child Other quotes by Michael.: "The purpose of parenting is to provide steady and wide-ranging opportunities for a child. The child does the rest."
Quote link. Other quotes about: believe government making rich Other quotes by William Henry Harrison.: "I believe and I say it is true Democratic feeling, that all the measures of the government are directed tot he purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer."
Quote link. Other quotes about: live Other quotes by Kenneth Hildebrand.: "Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes."
Quote link. Other quotes about: god seed education Other quotes by Anna James.: "The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us to develop, to their fullest extent, the capacities of every kind with which the God who made us has endowed us."
Quote link. Other quotes about: find men lies Other quotes by Denis Johnston.: "Men do not invent Myths. They only invent fables, and tell lies. True Myths create themselves, and find their expression in the men who serve their purpose."
Quote link. Other quotes about: human history man nature mankind perfect Other quotes by Immanuel Kant.: "The history of the human race, viewed as a whole may be regarded as the realization of a hidden plan of nature to bring about a political constitution, internally, and for this purpose, also externally perfect, as the only state in which all the capacities implanted by her in mankind can be fully developed."
Quote link. Other quotes about: human light Other quotes by Carl Gustav Jung.: "As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being."
Quote link. Other quotes about: men understand education teach Other quotes by Otto Kleppner.: "The purpose of all higher education is to make men aware of what was and what is to incite them to probe into what may be. It seeks to teach them to understand, to evaluate, to communicate."
Quote link. Other quotes by Arthur Koestler.: "If the creator had a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely meant us to stick it out."
Quote link. Other quotes about: live world beauty nature love past future forget Other quotes by Dean Koontz.: "Perhaps extreme danger strips us of all pretenses, all ambitions, all confusions, focusing us more intensely than we are otherwise ever focused, so that we remember what we otherwise spend most of our lives forgetting that our nature and purpose is, more than anything else, to love and to make love, to take joy from the beauty of the world, to live with an awareness that the future is not as real a place for any of us as are the present and the past."
Quote link. Other quotes about: live life Other quotes by Richard Leider.: "The purpose of life is to live a life of purpose."
Quote link. Other quotes about: books die human live men man book understand wise wisdom words hard Other quotes by Alan Stewart Paton.: "Who knows why we live, and struggle, and die... Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom."
Quote link. Other quotes about: time love grow Other quotes by Australian Aboriginal Proverb.: "We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love... and then we return home."
Quote link. Other quotes about: america first Other quotes by Andrew A. Rooney.: "Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things no one wanted even one of in the first place is giving America a new sense of purpose."
Quote link. Other quotes about: christ earth right god man understand mankind heaven Other quotes by Paul Sadler.: "As we study the Word of God rightly divided we are to understand that God has arranged His dealings with mankind into two programs. We have His prophesied purpose and His secret purpose. Prophecy has to do with the earth and Christ's reign upon it during the millennial kingdom, while the Mystery concerns our exaltation with Christ in the heavenlies."
Quote link. Other quotes about: bad work god day live world little time man mother plans worse words teach Other quotes by Paul Sadler.: "Why Paul God already had called twelve apostles of the kingdom Although Judas had fallen in transgression, the seat of his apostolic office was filled by Matthias preceding the day of Pentecost. Insofar as Paul was unconverted at the time, he could not have possibly fulfilled the qualificatios set down by the Holy Spirit to be numbered with the twelve (Acts 121-26). Of course, there are many dispensationalists who would agree with this interpretation, but teach that God ordained Paul to be the thirteenth apostle of the kingdom. Perhaps you have heard the saying, 'They jumped out of the frying pan into the fire.' In other words, we have gone from bad to worse, which is certainly the case with this view. the number twelve is stamped throughout the pages of prophecy, thus eliminating the possibility of a thirteenth apostolic office (Matt. 1928 cf. Rev. 12-21). What logical explanation then can we give for Paul's apostleship Before the foundation of the world, God foreordained that He would raise up a new apostle to reveal His eternal purpose for the parenthetical age of Grace in which we now live. Hence, Paul says 'But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by His grace, to reveal His Son in me, that I might preach Him among the heathen Gentiles...' (Gal. 115.16). When God temporarily rolled up the building plans of prophecy and placed them aside, He made known a secret set of plans. With this program came a completely new set of blueprints. According to the counsel of His will, He had predetermined to call Paul as the masterbuilder of the project. So then, the instructions for our building program are found in Paul's epistles. Little wonder the apostles says 'I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon. But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon.' (1 Cor. 310). It is essential to use Pauline constructio materials (grace doctrines), simply because someday soon the Building Inspector will examine our workmanship to determine if we followed His codes."
Quote link. Other quotes about: happy right life Other quotes by Charles Monroe Schultz.: "My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right"
Quote link. Other quotes about: mind soul Other quotes by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley.: "Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye."
Quote link. Other quotes about: christ god Other quotes by Cornelius Stam.: "Paul was to know and proclaim God's will, His purpose, in view of Israel's rejection of christ. Had god been taken by surprise in the crucifixion of Christ Would He now be forced to resort to some makeshift arrangement No, for the crucifixion was all part of--indeed, the central part of, His secret, eternal plan, now revealed to Paul."
Quote link. Other quotes about: hope man Other quotes by C. Neil Strait.: "A man can go on without wealth, and even without purpose, for a while. But he will not go on without hope."
Quote link. Other quotes about: time grow Other quotes by Annie Sullivan.: "Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over gain, and you will grow stronger until have accomplished a purpose--not the one you began with perhaps, but one you'll be glad to remember."
Quote link. Other quotes about: integrity human man respect Other quotes by Paul Sweezy.: "The real danger from advertising is that it helps to shatter and ultimately destroy our most precious non-material possessions the confidence in the existence of meaningful purposes of human activity and respect for the integrity of man."
Quote link. Other quotes about: men Other quotes by William Ashley.: "More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent."
Quote link. Other quotes about: work think success hard Other quotes by Margaret Hilda Thatcher.: "What is success I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose."
Quote link. Other quotes about: die live man important Other quotes by Howard Thurman.: "Commitment means that it is possible for a man to yield the nerve center of his consent to a purpose or cause, a movement or an ideal, which may be more important to him than whether he lives or dies."
Quote link. Other quotes about: work reason world man understand sin Other quotes by James Grover Thurber.: "One has but to observe a community of beavers at work in a stream to understand the loss in his sagacity, balance, cooperation, competence, and purpose which Man has suffered since he rose up on his hind legs.... He began to chatter and he developed Reason, Thought, and Imagination, qualities which would get the smartest group of rabbits or orioles in the world into inextricable trouble overnight."
Quote link. Other quotes about: work day people men respect success women future Other quotes by Brian Tracy.: "All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose."
Quote link. Other quotes about: important Other quotes by Walter F. Ulmer.: "The essence of a general's job is to assist in developing a clear sense of purpose ... to keep the junk from getting in the way of important things."
Quote link. Other quotes about: hope life dreams plans game Other quotes by Denis Watley.: "Where there is life, there is hope. Where there are hopes, there are dreams. Where there are vivid dreams repeated, they become goals. Goals become the action plans and game plans that winners dwell on in intricate detail, knowing that achievement is almost automatic when the goal becomes an inner commitment. The response to the challenges of life -- purpose -- is the healing balm that enables each of us to face up to adversity and strife."
Quote link. Other quotes about: art human education Other quotes by Barbara M. White.: "The basic purpose of a liberal arts education is to liberate the human being to exercise his or her potential to the fullest."
Quote link. Other quotes about: reason Other quotes by Woodrow Wilson.: "Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation."
Quote link. Other quotes about: happiness life Other quotes by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.: "The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness."
Quote link. Other quotes about: thinking art think man Other quotes by William Hart Coleridge.: "There is an art of which every man should be a master the art of reflection. If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all"
Quote link. Other quotes about: mind Other quotes by Malcolm Forbes.: "Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one."
Quote link. Other quotes about: life Other quotes by Richard Guggenheimer.: "Unless a life is activated by sustained purpose it can become a depressingly haphazard affair."
Quote link. Other quotes by Herbert Hoover.: "America - a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose."
Quote link. Other quotes about: human light Other quotes by Carl Jung.: "As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being."
Quote link. Other quotes about: life Other quotes by David Letterman.: "Everyone has a purpose in life. Perhaps yours is watching television."
Quote link. Other quotes about: life Other quotes by Cynthia Ozick.: "To want to be what one can be is purpose in life."
Quote link. Other quotes about: life good need look Other quotes by Robert Pante.: "If you look good and dress well, you don't need a purpose in life."
Quote link. Other quotes about: america first Other quotes by Andy Rooney.: "Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things no one wanted even one of in the first place is giving America a new sense of purpose."
Quote link. Other quotes about: live life Other quotes by Oswald Spengler.: "This is our purpose to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been bestowed upon us to live in such a way that we may be proud of ourselves to act in such a way that some part of us lives on."
Quote link. Other quotes about: human world nothing Other quotes by Andrew Schneider.: "There is nothing sadder in this world than the waste of human potential. The purpose of evolution is to raise us out of the mud, not have us grovelling in it."
Quote link. Other quotes about: happy right life Other quotes by Charles M. Schulz.: "My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right"
Quote link. Other quotes about: world people nature person Other quotes by James Thurber.: "The wit makes fun of other persons the satirist makes fun of the world the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people--that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature."
Quote link. Other quotes about: success Other quotes by Lyndon B. Johnson.: "Our purpose in Vietnam is to prevent the success of aggression. It is not conquest, it is not empire, it is not foreign bases, it is not domination. It is, simply put, just to prevent the forceful conquest of South Vietnam by North Vietnam."
Quote link. Other quotes about: america strength country Other quotes by Lyndon B. Johnson.: "I report to you that our country is challenged at home and abroad that it is our will that is being tried and not our strength our sense of purpose and not our ability to achieve a better America."
Quote link. Other quotes about: think Other quotes by James Allen.: "To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment."
Quote link. Other quotes about: happy world little life nature making Other quotes by George Bernard Shaw.: "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."
Quote link. Other quotes about: love Other quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson.: "Four snakes gliding up and down a hollow for no purpose that I could see -- not to eat, not for love, but only gliding."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man good Other quotes by Josh Billings.: "It is true that wealth won't make a man virtuous, but I notice there ain't anybody who wants to be poor just for the purpose of being good."
Quote link. Other quotes about: little mind wish Other quotes by Washington Irving.: "Great minds have purposes, little minds have wishes."
Quote link. Other quotes about: life book good Other quotes by John Milton.: "...A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life."
Quote link. Other quotes about: men government understand teach Other quotes by Louis D. Brandeis.: "Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficial. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding."
Quote link. Other quotes about: right time person Other quotes by Aristotle.: "Anyone can become angry. That is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose and in the right way - that is not easy."
Quote link. Other quotes about: right man law Other quotes by U.S. vs Cruikshan.: "The right of bearing arms for a lawful purpose is not a right granted by the Constitution neither is it in any manner dependent upon that instrument for its existence."
Quote link. Other quotes about: physical power right good war Other quotes by John Stuart Mill.: "The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant."
Quote link. Other quotes about: human Other quotes by Benjamin Disraeli.: "Nothing can resist the human will that will stake even its existence on its stated purpose."
Quote link. Other quotes about: life Other quotes by Dick Werthimer.: "The purpose of life is to fight maturity."
Quote link. Other quotes about: success Other quotes by Benjamin Disraeli.: "The secret of success is constancy of purpose."
Quote link. Other quotes about: light Other quotes by Henry Kissinger.: "The real distinction is between those who adapt their purposes to reality and those who seek to mold reality in the light of their purposes."
Quote link. Other quotes about: america work time man Other quotes by William Gladstone.: "The American Constitution is, so far as I can see, the most wonderful work ever struck off at a given time by the brain and purpose of man."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man Other quotes by Laurence J. Peter.: "Every man serves a useful purpose A miser, for example, makes a wonderful ancestor."
Quote link. Other quotes about: children child Other quotes by P. J. O'Rourke.: "Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs."
Quote link. Other quotes about: life silence Other quotes by Elizabeth Kubler-Ross.: "Learn to get in touch with silence within yourself, And know that everything in this life has purpose. There are no mistakes, No coincidences, All events are blessings given to us to learn from."
Quote link. Other quotes about: mind Other quotes by Malcolm Stevenson Forbes.: "Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one."
Quote link. Other quotes about: life silence Other quotes by Elizabeth Kubler-Ross.: "Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose."
Quote link. Other quotes about: important Other quotes by Victor Borge.: "The essence of a general's job is to assist in developing a clear sense of purpose . to keep the junk from getting in the way of important things."
Quote link. Other quotes about: creative Other quotes by Charles Du Bos.: "Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose."
Quote link. Other quotes about: nothing dreams understand sleep mind Other quotes by Erich Fromm.: "We all dream we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake."
Quote link. Other quotes about: life Other quotes by Robert Byrne.: "The purpose of life is a life of purpose."
Quote link. Other quotes about: first wise Other quotes by William Shakespeare.: "See first that the design is wise and just that ascertained, pursue it resolutely do not for one repulse forego the purpose that you resolved to effect."
Quote link. Other quotes about: strength work god nothing little man life mind Other quotes by Thomas Carlyle.: "A man with a half volition goes backwards and forwards, and makes no way on the smoothest road a man with a whole volition advances on the roughest, and will reach his purpose, if there be even a little worthiness in it. The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder - a waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpose in life and having it, throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work as God has given you."
Quote link. Other quotes about: wrong happiness person Other quotes by Hellen Keller.: "Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose."
Quote link. Other quotes about: talk people Other quotes by Louis Vermeil.: "The prime purpose of eloquence is to keep other people from talking."
Quote link. Other quotes about: art mind young teach Other quotes by Anatole France.: "The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards."
Quote link. Other quotes about: live food Other quotes by Eric Hoffer.: "The poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be engaged in a desperate struggle for food and shelter is to be wholly free from a sense of futility."
Quote link. Other quotes by Peter Nivio Zarlenga.: "To come to be you must have a vision of Being, a Dream, a Purpose, a Principle. You will become what your vision is."
Quote link. Other quotes about: bad think Other quotes by Richard Milhous Nixon.: "My own view is that taping of conversations for historical purposes was a bad decision on the part of all the presidents. I don't think Kennedy should have done it. I don't think Johnson should have done it, and I don't think we should have done it."
Quote link. Other quotes about: first Other quotes by Bertrand Russell.: "Education, which was at first made universal in order that all might be able to read and write, has been found capable of serving quite other purposes. By instilling nonsense it unifies populations and generates collective enthusiasm."
Quote link. Other quotes about: earth war heaven Other quotes by Ronald Reagan.: "Some say it will bring war to the heavens, but its purpose is to deter war, in the heavens and on earth."
Quote link. Other quotes by Hermann Hesse.: "It is not our purpose to become each other it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is."
Quote link. Other quotes about: right Other quotes by Dumb & Dumber.: "Lloyd Hey, I guess they're right senior citizens although slow and dangerous behind the wheel--can still serve a purpose. I'll be right back, don't you go dying on me"
Quote link. Other quotes about: work honest Other quotes by Thomas Alva Edison.: "Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing."
Quote link. Other quotes about: book Other quotes by William Hazlitt.: "If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago."

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