My Purpose Quotes

Real style is never right or wrong. It's a matter of being yourself on purpose.

For any serious purpose, intelligence is a very minor gift.

No one has yet discovered any warlike purpose to be served by the theory of numbers or relativity, and it seems unlikely that anyone will do so for many years.

The best way to dispel negative thoughts is to require that they have a purpose.

My name, Diana Ross, is my name and nobody should be able to use that for exploitative purposes but me.

Men are beasts! Nothing more! We fight! We kill! We devour our prey! Beasts do not stand behind beasts, little prince... They use each other so long as it suits their own selfish purpose!

In my experience, the best directors I've worked with hired people for a purpose. They hire them with trust. There's not many notes. There's confidence and support.

Governments and the military purport to protect the public from enemies, and if there were no enemies they would have to invent some, for the simple purpose of rationalizing their existence.

An uplifting sense of purpose is more than an impetus for individual accomplishment, it is also a necessary insurance policy against expediency and impropriety.

Every proposal I'm making, every idea I'm advancing has a single, central purpose: to revive a failing economy and give working Americans the help and security they need.

Never ask, "What reason do I have to be happy?" Instead ask, "To what purpose can I attach my happiness?

A life filled with silly social drama and gossip indicates that a person is disconnected from purpose and lacking meaningful goals. People on a path of purpose don't have time for drama.

I suppose if it has a practical purpose, I appreciate a pat on the back. I suppose it's rewarding, ultimately.

The more you create authentic power, the more the characteristics of authentic power become yours, and the more meaning, purpose and joy enter your life.

Not purpose but chance is at the heart of mental life.

I’ve had to make the difficult decision to follow my intuition, and allow myself the space and time to explore my true purpose in life.

Art can lead you to God. I think that's the purpose of everything. If it's not doing that, what's it doing? It's leading you the other way. It's certainly not leading you nowhere.

The purpose of fear is to determine how badly you want your dream.

Communication without a purpose is artistic masturbation.

The yoga tradition addresses how to live and how to shape your life with a commanding sense of purpose, capacity and meaning.

I've been thinking Hobbes" "On a weekend?" "Well, it wasn't on purpose

America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world.

In 'The Republic' he [Plato] states that the enjoyment of food is not a true pleasure because the purpose of eating is to relieve pain - hunger.

Our purpose is to provide you the way to the answer within that alone can fill the meaningless void. The way to the way is inward, where salvation has awaited your coming for 2000 years.

I do not believe making money in order to consume goods is mankind's sole purpose on this planet.

People don't want lots and lots of single purpose devices. They do not want to have to learn how to set up something for photos, another thing for music, another thing for video.

The fulfilling of who you are and your purpose for being here is not found outside, it's trusting God to move you, to inspire you.

I have written every poem, every novel, for the same purpose-to find out what I think, to know where I stand.

Now among the other things proper to recreate man and give him pleasure, music is either the first or one of the principal;and we must think that it is a gift of God deputed for that purpose'.

The discovery that the universe has no purpose need not prevent a human being from having one.

In the present civil war it is quite possible that God's purpose is something different from the purpose of either party.

...it isn't foolish or wicked to enjoy. Wickedness is hurting people on purpose. I love what you are and who you are and how you are. You give me great joy. And you make horrible coffee.

Children who know they are loved, know they have a purpose, and know they have a hope are prepared for anything this world wants to dish up.

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.

When Mozart is playing in my room, I am in conjunction with something I can't explain... I don't need to. I know that if there's a purpose for life, it was for me to hear Mozart.

One of the great purposes of religion itself is being hindered by an exclusive-ism that doesn't take into account the common elements and values that we actually share.

There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics none in which there is more need of good pilotage and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.

You need a purpose to express yourself, but that expression is its own purpose.

Develop a capacity for things like purpose, love, wonder, courage, and grace.

The point of civilization is to be civilized; the purpose of action is to perpetuate society, for only in society can philosophy truly take place.

God's purpose in redemption is to make worshipers out of rebels.

The desire to fulfill the purpose for which we were created is a gift from God.

Americanism is a question of spirit, of conviction and purpose, not creed or birthplaces. The test of our worth is the service we render.

I influenced the BG style by not being able to draw perspective. The BG artists developed cool graphic painting styles to make my bad backgrounds look like they were that way on purpose.

Some nights, valor and cold purpose aren't enough.

The purpose of parenting is to provide steady and wide-ranging opportunities for a child. The child does the rest.

Baffling late-life discovery: Golfers wear those awful clothes on purpose.

I have not the slightest pretension to call my verses poetry; I write now and then for no other purpose than to relieve depression or to improve my English.

Every word that I say, every song that I sing, and literally every move that I make [ in Chicaho musical] has much purpose.

The purpose of direct action is to create a situation so crisis-packed that it will inevitably open the door to negotiation.