Purpose Quotes
Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes.Kenneth Hildebrand
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
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
The basic purpose of a liberal arts education is to liberate the human being to exercise his or her potential to the fullest.Barbara M. White
As a man can drink water from any side of a full tank, so the skilled theologian can wrest from any scripture that which will serve his purpose.Bhagavad Gita
I cannot believe that the purpose of life is merely to be happy. I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate. I think it is above all to matter, to count, to stand for something. To have it make some difference that you lived at all.Leo Rosten
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
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
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
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
Thoughts lead on to purposes purposes go forth in action actions form habits habits decide character and character fixes our destiny.Tryon Edwards
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.The 14th. Dalai Lama
The American Constitution is, so far as I can see, the most wonderful work ever struck off at a given time by the brain and purpose of man.William Gladstone
You can have anything you want - - If you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.William Adams
The secret of success is constancy of purpose.Benjamin Disraeli
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
The primary purpose of the Data statement is to give names to constants; instead of referring to pi as 3. 141592653589793 at every appearance, the variable Pi can be given that value with a Data statement and used instead of the longer form of the constant. This also simplifies modifying the program, should the value of pi change.Fortran manual for Xerox Computers
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
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self - Gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.Helen Kelle
Who knows why we live, and struggle, and die... Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.Alan Stewart Paton
The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - - That is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.James Thurbe
Any ideas, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.Napoleon Hill
Some say it will bring war to the heavens, but its purpose is to deter war, in the heavens and on earth.Ronald Reagan
To display the greatest powers, unless they are applied to great purposes, makes nothing for the character of greatness.William Hazlitt, on the Pleasure of Hating
I am often troubled as I try hard here to create a new sense of common purpose... that sometimes we forget that we are all in this because we are seeking a good that helps all Americans.William Jefferson Clinton
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
Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character, and one of the best instruments of success. Without it genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies.Philip Dormer Chesterfield
Unless a life is activated by sustained purpose it can become a depressingly haphazard affair.Richard Guggenheime
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
Every man serves a useful purpose A miser, for example, makes a wonderful ancestor.Laurence J. Pete
Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.Samuel Butle
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
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
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
I believe that what woman resents is not so much giving herself in pieces as giving herself purposelessly.Anne Morrow Lindbergh
The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions which have been hidden by the answers.James Baldwin
The history of the human race, viewed as a whole may be regarded as the realization of a hidden plan of nature to bring about a political constitution, internally, and for this purpose, also externally perfect, as the only state in which all the capacities implanted by her in mankind can be fully developed.Immanuel Kant
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
