My Purpose Quotes
To teach is to learn twice. About all some parents accomplish in life is to send a child to Harvard. The purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place to spend one's leisure.
There is a certain amount of purpose, acquiescence, and satisfaction in nursing one's melancholy.
Why can't peace be a single overriding common purpose: why do we wait for a crisis to pull us together? Let's pull together for peace.
One of the worst of errors would be the general admission of the proposition that a Government has no right to interfere for any purpose except for that of affording protection.
It is true that wealth won't make a man virtuous, but I notice there ain't anybody who wants to be poor just for the purpose of being good.
My whole thing is that I want to explore why you read books, what's the purpose of reading, and maybe that it's not that cool to hate something just because it's popular.
I think we have to believe we are here for some purpose, and I know there are many cynics who will deny it, but they don't live as if they deny it.
Definiteness of purpose with positive mental attitude is the starting point of all worthwhile achievement.
All discussion, all debate, all dissidence tends to question and in consequence, to upset existing convictions; that is precisely its purpose and its justification.
Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience.
Because the Beloved wants to know, unseen things become manifest. Hiding is the hidden purpose of creation.
This relationship will help guarantee that, for generations to come, people of all nations will understand my beliefs and my purpose
The principle of parsimony is valid esthetically in that the artist must not go beyond what is needed for his purpose.
Atheistic morality is not impossible, but it will never answer our purpose.
Prayer does not influence God. Prayer surely does influence God. It does not influence His purpose. It does influence His action.
To this day, America is still the abiding alternative to tyranny. This is our purpose in the world, nothing more and nothing less.
These papers of the day have uses more adequate to the purposes of common life than more pompous and durable volumes.
Piling up material goods cannot fill the emptiness of lives which have no confidence or purpose.
Total commitment. You know, the idea of discovering something that, for all intents and purposes, goes against your abilities, and yet still deciding to do it anyway. That takes guts, you know?
Purpose in the human being is a much more complex phenomenon than what used to be called will power.
I think it's absolutely a blessing when you just know what your purpose is and your destiny. I don't think it's a curse at all.
The purpose of civilization and growth is to be able to reach out and empathize with other people... For me, the movies are like a machine that generates empathy.
Our purpose is simply to ask how theological principles can be shown to have usable secular analogues that throw light upon the nature of language.
I feel like there is great purpose in a lot of my endeavors. I've seen God in the middle of them. I've seen Him be faithful in those things.
The children are being conditioned to think that the purpose of life is to get a good job. You get paid but you don't get satisfaction from your work.
You have no skills in your hands. You have no education of understanding the meaning and the purpose and the compassion and the relationship. You have just a profession.
I designed every piece {of furniture} for a different reason and purpose, so I love each one.
Purpose is the most powerful motivator in the world. The secret of passion truly is purpose.
Parenthood is not an object of appetite or even desire. It is an object of will. There is no appetite for parenthood; there is only a purpose or intention of parenthood.
The purpose of learning to employ every minute properly is to unclutter our hours, deliver us of feverish activity and earn us true leisure.
Since the purpose of business is to satisfy existing desires, or stimulate new ones, if everyone were genuinely happy, there would be no need for business any longer.
There is no hope of success for the person who does not have a central purpose, or definite goal at which to aim.
The purpose of polite behavior is never virtuous. Deceit, surrender, and concealment these are not virtues. The goal of the mannerly is comfort, per se.
God may rationally be supposed to have framed so great and admirable an automaton as the world for special ends and purposes.
It's sometimes a painful process. It's a change that has to be motivated by a higher purpose, by the willingness to subordinate what you think you want now for what you want later.
When you feel like tellin a feller to go to the devil - tell him to go to Chicago - it'll anser every purpose, and is perhaps, a leetle more expensive.
Because we humans find stories such fascinating things, it’s all too easy to get interested in the story for its own sake, and lose sight of the purpose for which we set out to use the story.
We men do nothing but lie and make ourselves important. Speech was invented for the purpose of magnifying all of our sensations and impressions — perhaps so that we could believe in them.
I say you ought to write out 10 outrageous goals that are bigger than you because your life isn't meaningful or important unless you're on purpose about something way bigger than you are.
Weightless in water, swift as the wind, Subtle of purpose - a feather blown - I go with my oarsmen where they will, My beautiful body and theirs all one.
Passion requires focused direction, and that direction must come from three other areas: your purpose, your talents, and your needs.