Purpose Quotes

I think as a young actress, it's very rare that you read something where you're not either 'the girl...

Belief in immortality is harmful because it is not in our power to conceive of the soul as really in...

The New Dimension is peaceful, and all work here just as they do on Earth. It’s a place where learni...

Has your soul a special mission? Yes. Your mission is in the inmost recesses of your heart, and you ...

What gave you this idea of an imperfect god?''I don't know. It seems quite feasible to me. That is t...

As a society of unbelief, Western culture is devoid of a sense of journey, of adventure, because it ...

For example, when Christians discuss sex, it often sounds as if we are somehow "against sex". What w...

If I am going to be drowned—if I am going to be drowned—if I am going to be drowned, why, in the nam...

When you get just a complete sense of blackness or void ahead of you, that somehow the future looks ...

Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.

Part of him wanted to weep... but his purpose was rigid within him. He felt he could not bend to gen...

She watched with morbid fascination as they gathered at the stumps at the ends of the man's wrists, ...

What could be more fundamental to our sense of meaning and purpose than a conception of whether the ...

If there is no point in the universe that we discover by the methods of science, there is a point th...

The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend ...

The reason why I hadn't washed my clothes or my hair was because it seemed so silly.I saw the days o...

And when the hourglass has run out, the hourglass of temporality, when the noise of secular life has...

Let each become all that he was created capable of being.

Don't be led away to think this part of the world important and that unimportant. Every corner of th...

The most fortunate of us, in our journey through life, frequently meet with calamities and misfortun...

If you want to identify me, ask me not where I live, or what I like to eat, or how I comb my hair, b...

When faith replaces doubt, when selfless service eliminates selfish striving, the power of God bring...

No further evidence is needed to show that 'mental illness' is not the name of a biological conditio...

Although each of her nurses was markedly different from the others in looks, dress, manner of speech...

- It doesn't do anything obvious. But it might be able to do something in here. - Then she touched h...

Success demands singleness of purpose.

There is a great difference between one idler and another idler. There is someone who is an idler ou...

Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.

This the touch of my lips to yours, this the murmur of yearning,   This the far-off depth and height...

I do not snivel that snivel the world over,That months are vacuums and the ground but wallow and fil...

It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapabl...

It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance...

The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful peop...

Great minds have purpose, others have wishes. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortunes; but...

Even if we have a reliable criterion for detecting design, and even if that criterion tells us that ...

a man in earnest finds means, or if he cannot find he creates them. A vigorous purpose makes much ou...

a man in earnest finds means, or if he cannot find he creates them. A vigorous purpose makes much ou...

a man in earnest finds means, or if he cannot find he creates them. A vigorous purpose makes much ou...

a man in earnest finds means, or if he cannot find he creates them. A vigorous purpose makes much ou...

It is not a single cowardice that drives us into fiction's fantasies. We often fear that literature ...

I believe and I say it is true Democratic feeling, that all the measures of the Government are direc...

All the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poo...

‎"If there is no God, then man and the universe are doomed. Like prisoners condemned to death, we aw...

The purpose of technology is not to confuse the brain but to serve the body.

Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict; those who seek happiness for itself see...

We have different forms assigned to us in the school of life, different gifts imparted. All is not a...

You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spir...

Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.

Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an i...

You can have anything you want if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do a...

This was genius at close quarters, and genius had that something above normal in it that was a great...

I suppose what I really am is restless. I want to go everywhere, see everything, do everything. I wa...

Widespread state control over art and culture has left no room for freedom of expression in the coun...

It may be true that the only reason the comic book industry now exists is for this purpose, to creat...

We must mend what has been torn apart, make justice imaginable again in a world so obviously unjust,...

the real purpose of socialism is precisely to overcome and advance beyond the predatory phase of hum...

How was I able to live alone before, my little everything? Without you I lack self-confidence, passi...

Man is here for the sake of other men - above all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own...

It makes me happier, more secure, to think that I do not have to plan and manage everything for myse...

The purpose of human life and the sense of happiness is to give the maximum what the man is able to ...

If it were not my purpose to combine barbarian things with things Hellenic, to traverse and civilize...

I have not the slightest pretension to call my verses poetry I write now and then for no other purpo...

God created paper for the purpose of drawing architecture on it. Everything else is, at least for me...

The purpose of life is to emit positive vibrations in every direction in every way.

Your purpose is your identity focus your energy on great purposes.

It does not matter how long you are spending on the earth, how much money you have gathered or how m...

A compassionate heart radiates rays of beauty that remove the clouds of million hearts.

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the ...

Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things no one wanted even one of in the first plac...

The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.

I honestly think in order to be a writer, you have to learn to be reverent. If not, why are you writ...

I am no scientist. I explore the neighbourhood. An infant who has just learned to hold his head up h...

I am a fugitive and a vagabond, a sojourner seeking signs.

I am a sacrifice bound with cords to the horns of the world's rock altar, waiting for worms. I take ...

Our eulogies are always about the other stuff: what we gave, how we connected, how much we meant to ...

Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degr...

The fundamental purpose of government is to protect its citizens.

to cheat your way into a job bigger than your mind can handle is to become a fear-corroded ape on bo...

Then she understood that what she needed was the motion to a purpose, no matter how small or in what...

She watched the tunnels as they flowed past: bare walls of concrete, a net of pipes and wires, a web...

No! I don't want to speak of that! But I'm going to. I want you to hear. I want you to know what's i...

I searched modern fiction and poetry for clues to how we confronted and evaded reality, how we artic...

I felt the most intense pleasure in piercing the stone in order to make an abstract form and space q...

Each suburban wife struggles with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched sli...

More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent.

She has man's brain--a brain that a man should have were he much gifted--and woman's heart. The good...

But we are strong, each in our purpose, and we are all more strong together.

What was the purpose, then, of everything they taught in here? If it couldn't prevent men from actin...

Lord, when I feel that what I'm doing is insignificant and unimportant, help me to remember that eve...

Vulnerability is the birthplace of love, belonging, joy, courage, empathy, and creativity. It is the...

Spirituality is recognizing and celebrating that we are all inextricably connected to each other by ...

Act with purpose, courage, confidence, competence and intelligence until these qualities 'lock in' t...

Getting an audience is hard. Sustaining an audience is hard. It demands a consistency of thought, of...

The purpose of going to Mars is for humans to first begin to occupy, permanently, another planet in ...

The pilgrims on the Mayflower landed at Plymouth Rock. To my knowledge, they didn't wait around for ...

Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of ...

The significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and c...

There is something stunningly narrow about how the Anthropic Principle is phrased. Yes, only certain...

We make our purpose.

I'm not unhappy," he said. "Only people with no purpose are unhappy. I've got a purpose.