Purpose Quotes
The purpose of life is to fight maturity.Dick Werthime
The purpose of parenting is to provide steady and wide - Ranging opportunities for a child. The child does the rest.Michael
A state that dwarfs its men in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes, will find that with small men no great things can really be accomplished.John Stewart Mills
Eventually, alas, I realized the main purpose of buying cocaine is to run out of it.George Carlin, From his book - Brain Droppings
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.Hermann Hesse
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.Anna James
Many persons have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self - Gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.Helen Kelle
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.George Bernard Shaw
One loses all the time which he might employ to better purpose.Jean - Jacques Rousseau
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.William Hart Coleridge
A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.Kurt Vonnegut, Sirens of Titan
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.Eric Hoffer, "The True Believer", 1951
A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.John Milton
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.Eric Hoffe
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.Paul Sweezy
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.Oswald Spengle
Four snakes gliding up and down a hollow for no purpose that I could see - - Not to eat, not for love, but only gliding.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences.Ruth Benedict
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - A point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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.Andy Rooney
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.Albert Einstein
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.George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, Epistle Dedicatory
Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost and replaces by vague ritual.Frank Herbert, Dune
Rather do what is nothing in the purpose than to be idle, that the devil may find thee doing. The bird that sits is easily shot when the fliers escape the fowler. Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all the virtues, and is the self - Made sepulcher of a living man.Francis Quarles
In the defense of our nation, a president must be a clear - Eyed realist. There are limits to the smiles and scowls of diplomacy. Armies and missiles are not stopped by stiff notes of condemnation. They are held in check by strength and purpose and the promise of swift punishment.George W. Bush, speech, November 19, 1999
Find out who you are and do it on purpose.Dolly Parton
Dreams, ideas, and plans not only are an escape, they give me purpose, a reason to hang on.Steven Patrick Callahan
To come to be you must have a vision of Being, a Dream, a Purpose, a Principle. You will become what your vision is.Peter Nivio Zarlenga
My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today I knew it then as purpose.Bette Davis
I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there? s purpose and worth to each and every life.Ronald Reagan
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.Australian Aboriginal Prove
What business strategy is all about; what distinguishes it from all other kinds of business planning - Is, in a word, competitive advantage. Without competitors there would be no need for strategy, for the sole purpose of strategic planning is to enable the company to gain, as effectively as possible, a sustainable edge over its competitors.Keniche Ohnae
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.Lyndon B. Johnson
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.Carl Jung, "Memories, Dreams, Reflections", 1962
We ought not to look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dear - Brought experience.George Washington
The fundamental qualities for good execution of a plan is first; intelligence; then discernment and judgment, which enable one to recognize the best method as to attain it; the singleness of purpose; and, lastly, what is most essential of all, will - Stubborn will.Ferdinand Foch
Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat.Fran Lebowitz
