My Purpose Quotes

Every product and service is sold on the promise of a better future. The purpose of business is to deliver on the promise, and profit is the reward for doing so.

I would rather work with five people who really believe in what they are doing rather than five hundred who can't see the point.

It sounds old-fashioned to say, but we have some kind of purpose for being here, not poets or writers, but all of us humans.

I always have an adjustment period where I'm so happy to be home, but then my sense of purpose is totally gone.

Art is about cosmic beauty. Science is about cosmic order. Religion is about cosmic purpose.

I wanted to dissolve into the floor, mixing myself with the hard stone. A stone had a single purpose: to be. No complicated promises, no worries and no feelings.

When Reagan was outspoken about his faith it was usually for a purpose, but never for getting votes.

When the gospel enters our work in a robust way, there's a deep encouragement and renewed sense of purpose that people begin to experience sometimes for the first time.

We were created for a purpose and when our underlying assumptions don't reflect this deeper purpose, we begin to whither as human beings.

the most powerful mind is the quiet mind. It is the mind that is present, reflective, mindful of its thoughts and its state. It doesn't often multitask, and when it does, it does so with a purpose.

The man of science dissects the statement, verifies the facts, and demonstrates connection even where he cannot its purpose.

Sometimes you find an old tune so good you can use it several times for different purposes.

I really connect with music that has a point, that's not just a heavy riff and cool sounds. I always like it to have a purpose.

A selfish basis would not serve the purpose of taking a man higher and higher along the paths of evolution.

Civilizations have come and gone and, in spite of our vaunted progress, I am tempted to ask again and again, 'To what purpose?'

Leaders such as Alexander the Great, Napoleon, Franklin D. Roosevelt and others promulgated a vision and a moving story of how their people could achieve a great purpose.

For a pragmatist like me, the important issues concern the words we might deploy to achieve our purposes, rather than the language we actually use.

Purpose is not necessary to make a building beautiful.

Not everyone has a purpose.

My purpose is to describe experiments in the science ofsatyagraha and not at all to describe how good I am.

It is worthwhile for one to make an effort to achieve happiness. Just as the purpose of a plant is to grow, so it is that the main purpose of every human being is to survive and to grow until death.

Pascal and C are special-purpose languages for manipulating the registers and memory of a von Neumann-style computer.

The purpose of education is to make the choices clear to people, not to make the choices for people.

The purpose of the media is to make us all spectators, to watch. So that's why we have millions of fat children watching the games, eating and consuming and not playing themselves.

In order to ask with real intent or to act with full purpose of heart, we must always make an accompanying commitment.

Depression is an illness that robs one of the meaning of life. Heal the illness. As the depression heals, enthusiasm, well-being, and a sense of life's purpose will return.

Our life here on Earth has as its purpose precisely to prepare for our eternal happiness. This world is a large womb. It is a 'test' as all opportunities are tests.

[JF] Kennedy was a deceitful man. He was a cold-blooded politician whose purpose was to get elected.

Coming to the civil rights movement in the twentieth century, we begin to have this idea that's still with us today, which is that the main purpose of public education is closing achievement gaps.

I have always believed that the ultimate purpose of economic policies and development policy is to meet the basic needs of our people. And for that, we need a fast-expanding economy.

It's not for any purpose such as religion, health, or things like that, I just never felt I had the need or want to drink or do drugs.

It serves the purpose of not serving a purpose, surely quite a valid one.

I think my films are always quite self-reflexive and always question 'why am I doing this, is this the right way to do it, what is cinema for, does it have a purpose?

We have tried to substitute mass for purpose. We have tried to regain military potency of defense by making it gigantic, unwieldy, complex. It never works.

The purpose of driving traffic to your online business is to get customers. Once a prospect lands on your site, you still have to convert that prospect into a buyer.

There's never going to be a time where the Republican Party rallies around and says you have to get out or anyone has to get out for purposes of rallying around Donald Trump.

To satisfy the customer is the mission and purpose of every business.

It is the difficult, but unavoidable, task of the modern individual to assimilate consciously all of the contents - from darkest degradation to profoundest purpose - contained in the psyche.

Let no act be done without purpose.

I like to cook; it is, for me, a happy combination of mindlessness and purpose.

Generally we don't really consciously do it as a purpose-driven thing. ... It's really just a response to life.

Movies are a combination of art and mass medium, but television is so single in its purpose-selling-that it operates without that painful, poignant mixture of aspiration and effort and compromise.

I always say, you're going to have to ask someone else, but I believe the purpose is to stand as a reconciler, a bridge builder.

I believe that prosperity has a purpose.

I'm not senile," I snapped. "If I burn the house down it will be on purpose.

I always like the physical comedy because I actually do a lot of it in my own life, but not on purpose. I am the klutziest person on the planet. It's easy for me.

The purpose of debates is to explore issues, not end them.

A lot of the Beatles albums were very various, and we did it on purpose: We didn't want the next track to sound like the last one.

We need to explore the relationship between means and ends. Purposes grow out of situations. One may find the pursuit first and then this brings the purpose.

Aristotle [would] probably conclude most Americans, for all intents and purposes, are slaves.