My Purpose Quotes

Derivatives serve practically no purpose except to enrich bankers through opaque pricing and to deceive investors through off-the-balance-sheet accounting.

Those who are devoid of purpose will make the void their purpose.

We're helping those children who cannot help themselves and giving a push to those who can. We've done it by working together for a common purpose. I see no reason to stop now.

The biblical purpose of every conversation you have, in every personal interaction, is that they person who hears you will receive grace.

I hope to see Ruby help every programmer in the world to be productive, and to enjoy programming, and to be happy. That is the primary purpose of Ruby language.

Effectiveness without values is a tool without a purpose.

More men fail though lack of purpose than lack of talent.

Spending time with God through prayer and His Word is a prerequisite for having a great life and fulfilling your purpose.

Whenever you become anxious or stressed, outer purpose has taken over, and you lost sight of your inner purpose. You have forgotten that your state of consciousness is primary, all else secondary.

The purpose of meditation is personal transformation.

If you do not believe in a personal God, the question: 'What is the purpose of life?' is unaskable and unanswerable.

Things on the essential list: vodka, Nine Inch Nails, a steady supply of mortal men, and an all-purpose bitchy attitude.

The purpose that brought the fourteenth amendment into being was equality before the law, and equality, not separation, was written into the law.

A bird is safe in its nest - but that is not what its wings are made for.

If we have a purpose in life beyond being a cog in the human machine, mine is to help inspire people and that's pretty cool. I would like to motivate the world.

The fundamental purpose of government is to protect its citizens.

To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.

The most fundamental purpose of government is defense, not empire.

America's highways, roads, bridges, are an indispensable part of our lives. They link one end of our nation to the other. We use them each and every day, for every conceivable purpose.

Sometimes nothing is so solid to me as writing - I suppose that's what a vocation means - at times a torment, a bad conscience, but all in all, purpose and direction.

We have to have a purpose greater than the endless struggle to satisfy personal desires.

Recovery is about purpose and meaning in life, not “sobriety” and meetings.

Two things are necessary for success in life; one is a sense of purpose and the other, a touch of madness.

Violence in our society has reached epidemic proportions. ... Violence in the media for entertainment purposes has been established as a major contributing factor.

The secret of passion is purpose.

I define love thus: The will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth.

Every single moment shapes our future. Be intentional. Live on purpose!

You shouldn't do science just to improve wealth - do science for the sake of human culture and knowledge. There must be some purpose in life that is higher than just surviving.

So often do you see collegians enter life with high resolve and lofty purpose and then watch them shrink and shrink to sordid, selfish, shrewd plodders, full of distrust and sneers.

Love is the essential existential fact. It is our ultimate reality and our purpose on earth.

Authentic freedom is actually the freedom of knowing who you are, why you are here, your purpose in life and where you are going when you leave here.

God's purpose is not to perfect me to make me a trophy in His showcase; He is getting me to the place where He can use me. Let Him do what He wants.

Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written and another for which it wasn't.

What's the trick? There are three of them: A sense of real purpose, a sense of humor, and a sense of constant curiosity. Keep using those to the grave because learning really never ends.

Not everybody can identify a purpose in life. But when you do, and when you pursue it, you will be living the kind of life you feel you were meant to live. And what's more, you will be happy.

No blur of inexactness, no cloud of vagueness, is allowable in good writing; from the first seeing to the last putting down, there must be steady lucidity and uncompromise of purpose.

The very beating of your heart has meaning and purpose. Your actions have value far greater than silver or gold.

The UN's unique legitimacy flows from a universal perception that it pursues a larger purpose than the interests of one country or a small group of countries.

The purpose of life is to live it.

Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description.

The purpose of social work should not be to distribute favours, but to restore rights.

To give life a meaning, one must have a purpose larger than self.

It's not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something.

Infirm of purpose! Give me the daggers: the sleeping and the dead are but as pictures: ‘tis the eye of childhood that fears a painted devil

I only mean forty per cent of what I say.

The whole purpose of religion is to facilitate love and compassion, patience, tolerance, humility, and forgiveness.

One of my core beliefs is that everything happens for a reason and some things just aren't to my taste. All the things that happen in my life are divinely inspired and they happen for a purpose.

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: each the other's opposite and complement.

Lessons often come dressed up as detours and roadblocks

I think the purpose of deconstruction is to take something apart and see how it works. If you're not going to put it back together again and watch it go, what's the point?