Purpose Quotes

The aim of science is to discover and illuminate truth. And that, I take it, is the aim of literatur...

But because truly being here is so much; because everything here apparently needs us, this fleeting ...

I live my life in widening circleThat reach out across the world. I may not ever complete the last o...

The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness...

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to...

I have no expectation that any man will read history aright who thinks that what was done in a remot...

Right after 'Raymond' I had a world-is-my-oyster attitude, but I found out I don't like oysters. I h...

Those who might be tempted to give way to despair should realize that nothing accomplished in this o...

all of us have a place in history. mine is clouds.

The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation. Duri...

There seemed no answer. He wasn't resigned to anything, he hadn't accepted or adjusted to the life h...

When I launched the development of the GNU system, I explicitly said the purpose of developing this ...

The Bible tells us that Jesus Christ came to do three things. He came to have my past forgiven, you ...

The purpose of influence is to "speak up for those who have no influence." (Pr.31:8) It's not about ...

God made you for a reason and your life has profound meaning! We discover that meaning and purpose o...

In Psalm 72, Solomon prays for power and fame but he says the purpose of influence is to speak up fo...

You didn’t create yourself, so there is no way you can tell yourself what you were created for! If I...

Without God, life has no purpose, and without purpose, life has no meaning. Without meaning, life ha...

You cannot arrive at your life’s purpose by starting with a focus on yourself. You must begin with G...

It’s not about you. The purpose of your life is far greater than your own personal fulfillment, your...

He gave us taste buds, then filled the world with incredible flavors like chocolate and cinnamon and...

It’s a strange myth that atheists have nothing to live for. It’s the opposite. We have nothing to di...

The purpose that brought the fourteenth amendment into being was equality before the law, and equali...

To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not ...

I decided that life rationally considered seemed pointless and futile, but it is still interesting i...

The heart of the matter is whether knowing evil (or sin or crime or whatever you want to call it) is...

There is a certain sense in which I would say the universe has a purpose. It's not there by chance.

Finding the center of strength within ourselves is in the long run the best contribution we can make...

The Church is the new creation, it is life and joy, it is the sacramental fellowship in which we sha...

I think we're much smarter than we were. Everybody knows that abstract art can be art, and most peop...

I should never have dreamed of purpose, I am coming to the conclusion that privacy, the small indivi...

To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten.

I was proud to share the stories of my friends at Georgetown Law who have suffered dire medical cons...

You're a Dark One," said Anton. "All you see in everything is evil, treachery, trickery.""All I do i...

I'm a Christian, and I believe that God has a plan and a purpose for each one of our lives and that ...

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.