Purpose Quotes

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.

Wherever God has given faith, it is given, among other reasons, for the very purpose of being tried.

Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, ...

And if I'm guilty of having gratuitous sex, then I'm also guilty of having gratuitous violence, and ...

I think you can judge from somebody's actions a kind of a stability and sense of purpose perhaps cre...

Too often, we judge other groups by their worst examples - while judging ourselves by our best inten...

We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose ...

The value and utility of any experiment are determined by the fitness of the material to the purpose...

There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish dange...

Find the thing you want to do most intensely, make sure that’s it, and do it with all your might. If...

The satisfaction? The joy? That comes from solving problems and making things.

The purpose of education is to keep a culture from being drowned in senseless repetitions, each of w...

In Maycomb, if one went for a walk with no definite purpose in mind, it was correct to believe one's...

I myself, as I’m writing, don’t know who did it. The readers and I are on the same ground. When I st...

When you come out of the storm you won't be the same person that walked in. That's what the storm is...

... And that has remained an important mental landscape for me, a reference point. It teaches me som...

From the moment of my birth, I lived with pain at the center of my life. My only purpose in life was...

True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpo...

Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow.

Certainly I believe that God gave us life for happiness, not misery. Humanity, I am sure, will never...

He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.

The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of ...

Censorship always defeats it own purpose, for it creates in the end the kind of society that is inca...

It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other...

It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first conditio...

In my view, far from deserving condemnation for their courageous reporting, the New York Times, the ...

Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and partic...

A man of real purpose puts his faith in himself always. Sometimes he refuses even to put his faith i...

Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.

I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no...

Do you know, I sometimes, catch myself wishing that I too were blind to the facts of life and only k...

The entity God created to traffic His transcendence has fallen far from its mission when it chooses ...

Whatever you is, Onion," he said, "be it full.

The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of h...

I think a lot of people get so obsessed with the wedding and the expense of the wedding that they mi...

I'm too busy thinking what I'm going to say next to remember what I've said, but my staff tells me I...