Purpose Quotes

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.

There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose.

I'm a writer and this is what I do no matter what name we put to it. Year by year, the world is turn...

My help had been needed and claimed; I had given it: I was pleased to have done something: trivial, ...

The enduring attraction of war is this: Even with its destruction and carnage it can give us what we...

...all around George, approaching him, crossing his path from every direction, is the male and femal...

If the citizens of the United States are to turn away from the Communist Manifesto and preserve the ...

We are born and we die; and between these two most important events in our lives more or less time e...

My story is a freedom song of struggle. It is about finding one's purpose, how to overcome fear and ...

God decided that this time in history was perfect for you to glorify Him and make an eternal differe...

Sex joins two people spiritually and emotionally as well as physically. This is its purpose-to bond ...

Men are free when they are obeying some deep, inward voice of religious belief. Obeying from within....

Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Rel...

Nothing is more creative... nor destructive... than a brilliant mind with a purpose.

When kings the sword of justice first lay down,They are no kings, though they possess the crown.Titl...

I am not the only person who uses his computer mainly for the purpose of diddling with his computer.

Whereas purpose provides the juice and the direction, principles define the parameters of action and...

Today, hundreds of millions dwell in freedom, from the Baltic to the Adriatic, from the Western Appr...

Like most North Americans of his generation, Hal tends to know way less about why he feels certain w...

A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.

Other folk thought the Rage was simple bloodlust, a berserk savagery that neither knew nor cared wha...

In spite of where we were, how we had gotten here and why we had come, I felt that at this moment of...

She said...she said don't be scared, we wasn't born to be all the time scared, we was born happy, ba...

My life has a mysterious purpose that I don't understand, and day by day, conflict by conflict, I le...

She says that each of us has his or her role in life, and if we know ourselves well enough to unders...

Because God is never cruel, there is a reason for all things. We must know the pain of loss; because...

The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

In short, superheroes balance the forces of light and dark, rage and serenity, and the sacred and th...

Many atheists might proudly proclaim that our lives have no ultimate meaning, yet the business of fi...

ART: None. The function of art is to hold the mirror up to nature, and there simply isn’t a mirror b...

Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose un...

The best things in life make you sweaty.

The purpose of torture is not getting information. It's spreading fear.

If it's knowledge and wisdom you want, then seek out the company of those who do real work for an ho...

The main purpose of science is simplicity and as we understand more things, everything is becoming s...

Thus, you see, he arrived at the same end, via supposed duty, that he was previously pledged to via ...

When you are walking down the road in Bali and your pass a stranger, the very first question he or s...

The heart must be renewed by divine grace, or it will be in vain to seek for purity of life. He who ...

We should be very concerned: if identity theft is so simple to do, what's to stop me from entering t...

I realize that humans cannot bear very much reality. Most lives are a flight from selfhood. Most pre...

People always want something more than immediate joy or that deeper sense called happiness. This is ...

He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.

Doubt as sin. — Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be s...

No small art is it to sleep: it is necessary for that purpose to keep awake all day.

So I'll do that, and I'll do my best and if my best isn't good enough, at least I will have done eve...

The Clayr saw me, the Wallmaker made me, the King quenched me, the Abhorsen wields me so that no Dea...

Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it

Those who have failed to work toward the truth have missed the purpose of living.

The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.