Purpose Quotes
Anyone can become angry. That is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose and in the right way - That is not easy.Aristotle
See first that the design is wise and just: that ascertained, pursue it resolutely; do not for one repulse forego the purpose that you resolved to effect.William Shakespeare
The purpose of life is to live a life of purpose.Richard Leide
We scientists, whose tragic destiny it has been to make the methods of annihilation ever more gruesome and more effective, must consider it our solemn and transcendent duty to do all in our power in preventing these weapons from being used for the brutal purpose for which they were invented.Albert Einstein
Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.George Herbert Walker Bush
Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.Aristotle
Your purpose in relationships is simply to be your best self, regardless of the circumstances.Rosalene Glickman, Ph. D., Optimal Thinking: How to Be Your Best Self
Every man serves a useful purpose A miser, for example, makes a wonderful ancestor.Laurence J. Pete
The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions which have been hidden by the answers.James Baldwin
A good book is the precious life - Blood of the master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose for a life beyond.John Milton
We all dream we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake.Erich Fromm
She knows what is the best purpose of education not to be frightened by the best but to treat it as part of daily life.John Mason Brown
The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.Morris Adle
Any ideas, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.Napoleon Hill
Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?Pliny the Elde
Thoughts lead on to purposes purposes go forth in action actions form habits habits decide character and character fixes our destiny.Tryon Edwards
The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant.John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life.Alen Coren
The atom, being for all practical purposes the stable unit of the physical plane, is a constantly changing vortex of reactions.Unknown
The purpose of all higher education is to make men aware of what was and what is to incite them to probe into what may be. It seeks to teach them to understand, to evaluate, to communicate.Otto Kleppne
Nature is not cruel, pitilessly, indifferent. This is one of the hardest lessons for humans to learn. We cannot admit that things might be neither good nor evil, neither cruel nor kind, but simply callous - - Indifferent to all suffering, lacking all purpose.Richard Dawkins
Great minds have purposes, others have wishes. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.Washington Irving
Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.Charles Du Bos
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, The Lonely Life, 1962
My purpose in life does not include a hankering to charm society.James Dean
The prime purpose of eloquence is to keep other people from talking.Louis Vermeil
If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.William Hazlitt
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. Thus people haunted by the purposelessness of their lives try to find a new content not only by dedicating themselves to a holy cause but also by nursing a fanatical grievance. A mass movement offers them unlimited opportunities for both.Eric Hoffe
The purpose of a liberal arts education is to learn that a person can like both cats *and* dogs!Sonjay Anand
A man can go on without wealth, and even without purpose, for a while. But he will not go on without hope.C. Neil Strait
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of being.Carl Jung
Everyone has a purpose in life. Perhaps yours is watching television.David Letterman
The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.Carl Gustav Jung
The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth. It is obvious that man is himself a traveler; that the purpose of this world is not to have and to hold but to give and serve. There can be no other meaning.Sir Wilfred T. Grenfell
Our purpose in Vietnam is to prevent the success of aggression. It is not conquest, it is not empire, it is not foreign bases, it is not domination. It is, simply put, just to prevent the forceful conquest of South Vietnam by North Vietnam.Lyndon B. Johnson
The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.William Cowpe
The universal and lasting establishment of peace constitutes not merely a part, but the whole final purpose and end of the science of right as viewed within the limits of reason.Immanuel Kant, The Science of Right
