My Purpose Quotes

the most comfortable characteristic of the period [1775-1825], and the one which incites our deepest envy, is the universal willingness to accept a good purpose as a substitute for good work.

Advertising justifies its existence when used in the public interest-it is much too powerful a tool to use solely for commercial purposes.

To be happy is not the purpose of our being, but to deserve happiness.

A man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder - never likely to reach home port. To us comes the signal: chart your course, set your sail, position your rudder, and proceed.

Sharks have swum the oceans for over 400 million years, but we're threatening this critically important species for the purpose of making soup - it's sad and wasteful.

They came to know the incorrigible sorrow of all prisoners and exiles, which is to live in company with a memory that serves no purpose.

God never intended for us to be left to pray on our own. God never changes His purpose, but He often does purpose a change.

To have a moral sense is not to be dogmatic in dealing with rules. It can be an open way with dealing with questions of objectives and purpose, which is completely different.

Power acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose. [Lat., Imperium flagitio acquisitum nemo unquam bonis artibus exercuit.]

There is no road to success but through a clear strong purpose. Nothing can take its place. A purpose underlies character, culture, position, attainment of every part.

How quickly was every bad thing discovered to be the fault of the previous administration (an evil set of men who wedded general stupidity to wickedness of purpose).

A good character today is shaped by greatness, greatness in vision, greatness in courage, greatness in insight, greatness in purpose and devotion.

He whose ranks are united in purpose will be victorious.

An Englishman never enjoys himself, except for a noble purpose.

Even if I have hundreds of things to do, the disconnected feeling is still there because it is very hard to find a real purpose of life.

Life has meaning only if you do what is meaningful to you.

People working together in a strong community with a shared goal and a common purpose can make the impossible possible.

The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accord with nature, in her manner of operation.

The perfect day is going to bed with a dream and waking up with a purpose.

The purpose of art is to represent the meaning of things. This represents the true reality, not external aspects.

Art is the perpetual motion of illusion. The highest purpose of art is to inspire. What else can you do? What else can you do for any one but inspire them?

Connection gives purpose and meaning to our lives.

I have lived my whole life on the stage and screen before you. I found purpose and meaning in your response.

The national school is not a lecture hall or a library. Its schooling consists chiefly in experimental collective action aimed at the realization of a collective purpose.

Though my verse but roam the air And murmur in the trees, You may discern a purpose there, As in music of the bees.

When we give thanks in all things, we see hardships and adversities in the context of the purpose of life.

Flattery is praise insincerely given for an interested purpose.

We fail, not because of big problems, but because of small purposes.

I see my purpose in life as making the world a happier place to be in.

The true purpose of yoga is to discover that aspect of your being that can never be lost.

We were made to live in a posture of grateful worship, and when we live in praise we live our purpose, and all the pieces fall in place, us all falling down in thanks.

The idea of life having a purpose stands and falls with the religious system.

Integrate purpose into your for-profit business model through a long term commitment to a cause that is aligned with your core values and those of your community.

Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence.

But for what purpose was the earth formed?" asked Candide. "To drive us mad," replied Martin.

Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.

The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make him ruin his work.

It concerns us to know the purposes we seek in life, for then, like archers aiming at a definite mark, we shall be more likely to attain what we want.

Austere perseverance, hash and continuous... rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistible greater with time.

His purpose is simply to draw us closer to Himself in conscious communion with Him.

A journalistic purpose could be someone with a Xerox machine in a basement.

When we sit down day after day and keep grinding, something mysterious starts to happen... Unseen forces enlist in our cause; serendipity reinforces our purpose.

You don't think people would go on about my looks if I was No. 500 in the world instead of No.12, do you? Anyway, as I keep telling everyone, you can't blame me for looking like this on purpose

There are some that only employ words for the purpose of disguising their thoughts.

To teach means scarcely anything more than to show how things differ from one another in their different purposes, forms, and origins. ... Therefore, he who differentiates well teaches well.

My mother told me once that we can't survive alone, but even if we could, we wouldn't want to. Without a faction we have no purpose and no reason to live.

You know your general purpose is to become a Co-worker with God. So how do you identify your personal goal?

What is the purpose of life?...To be the eyes and ears and conscience of the Creator of the Universe, you fool!

The purpose of fiction is to combat loneliness.

Money is only a human invention. I get paid for my work, it's a system of trade, but it's not my purpose and reason for living.