My Purpose Quotes

Ethics without virtue is an illusion. What is the highest purpose of ethics? It is to make a person good, that is virtuous.

When you least feel like it, do something for someone else. You forget about your own situation. It gives you a purpose, as opposed being sorrowful and lonely.

Practically everyone is going to have a general purpose computer in their pocket, it's so easy to underestimate that, that has got to be the really, really big one.

Guilt at least has a purpose; it tells us we've violated some ethical code. Ditto for remorse. Those feelings are educational; they manufacture wisdom. But regret-regret is useless.

I do not conceive of any manifestation of culture, of science, of art, as purposes in themselves. I think the purpose of science and culture is man.

Do not think about or do anything without a spiritual purpose, whereby it is done for God. For If you travel without purpose, you shall labor in vain.

Man becomes greater in proportion to knowing himself and his faculties. Let him become conscious of what he is and he will soon also learn what he should be.

Sports has become such a big business that the line between journalism and being a broadcast partner for all intents and purposes has been obliterated.

A PILGRIM IS A WANDERER WITH A PURPOSE. A pilgrimage can be to a place - that's the best known kind - but it can also be for a thing. Mine is for peace, and that is why I am a Peace Pilgrim.

People who use time wisely spend it on activities that advance their overall purpose in life.

Book sense makes sense because someone has gone through it before and able to share it with you. Your job is to listen and discern.

A steadfast heart does not stray from the path.

A wise man's goal shouldn't be to say something profound, but to say something useful.

My purpose: to lift your spirit and to motivate you.

I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.

The purpose of technology is not to confuse the brain but to serve the body.

Yet it's not for want of future that I'm here, he thought. It's for want of a present.

Rule of art: let half-blind purpose lead you.

A treasure does not always contribute to the political security of its possessors. It rather invites attack, and very seldom is faithfully applied to the purpose for which it was destined.

The progress of despotism tends to disappoint its own purpose.

The purpose of science is not to analyze or describe but to make useful models of the world. A model is useful if it allows us to get use out of it.

Men's weaknesses are often necessary to the purposes of life.

Psychotherapy can be one of the greatest and most rewarding adventures, it can bring with it the deepest feelings of personal worth, of purpose and richness in living.

What night gave Rafael was a formlessness in which everything had a purpose. As if darkness had a hidden musical language.

The great and glorious masterpiece of humanity is to know how to live with a purpose.

A lot of my work is helping people to find their own life's purpose and then follow it. I find that when people are not working on their life's purpose there is a sense of emptiness and anxiety.

Men and women of every faithб and good people with none at allб sincerely strive to do right and lead a purpose-driven life.

Religion has nothing to do with compassion; it is our love for God that is the main thing because we have all been created for the sole purpose to love and be loved.

You're pretty smart for a Fed." "I missed a bunch of questions on the entrance exam on purpose so that I could get into the agency.

Men do not invent Myths. They only invent fables, and tell lies. True Myths create themselves, and find their expression in the men who serve their purpose.

There is nothing like a fixed, steady aim, with an honorable purpose. It dignifies your nature, and insures your success.

On the flip side, when we connect our work with a greater sense of purpose and calling beyond the paycheck, we begin to see the kind of flourishing that we were called to create.

The greatest lessons to be learned about life, love, purpose, meaning, and priority are to be learned from children.

Americans tended to think of war as something that had to be done from time to time, for a particular purpose or goal. They fought not for the sake of fighting but for the sake of winning.

Oh, how precious is time, and how it pains me to see it slide away, while I do so little to any good purpose.

It's important for everybody to have somewhere to go. Men and women need purpose [in life].

Each of us was born to fulfill a divine purpose. As we open our hearts and minds to a new way of being, the purpose of our lives unfolds organically.

The meaning of life, Nikodemos, is to live life with meaning. The purpose of life is merely to live it, perhaps to give it.

The purpose of life is to get as close as we can to other people.

For some individuals - some soldiers, some contractors - combat provides a kind of purpose and meaning beyond which all else potentially pales in comparison.

We are all capable of greatness when we know without any doubt that we are directly connected to a higher purpose.

Leo Tolstoy said the purpose of art is to teach you to love life. And that's what I want.

Service to others should be one of the most basic purposes of family life and schooling.

There is an entire generation who was too young to read 'The Purpose Driven Life' 10 years ago but are now asking the critical question, 'What on earth am I here for?'

It is not enough to invent new machines, new regulations, or new institutions. We must understand differently and more perfectly the true purpose of our existence on this earth.

If you come face to face with some really challenging situations and tragic circumstances - you are going in there with a purpose. You are not going in there as a tourist.

You can do something other than working with God in His purpose, but it will always be something lesser, and you couldn't come up with something better.

Design isn't Art. It's not about creating beautiful or thought-provoking things for the sake of it. Design is a discipline creating communication with a purpose.

The dreamer creates his dreams for his own purposes, selecting only those symbols which have meaning to him.

Is love supposed to ruin you? It seems to me you shouldn't destroy yourself out of life for purposes of love--or what good is it?