My Purpose Quotes

The only thing that gives [new technology] purpose is the kind of creative content we all produce.

The EU should have consolidated its different presences and purposes in Kosovo earlier.

I found motherhood a crash course in existentialism (what is my purpose in life, am I mistress or slave of my destiny, when the hell do I get some sleep?) and [the book] ROOM was the result.

Rule of science: only exclude purpose, and Nature will reveal her causes.

Rule of criticism: only attend to the shape, and the purpose will manifest itself.

Whereas the notion of purpose before was always associated with future, there is now a deeper purpose that can only be found in the present, through denial of time.

To separate the purpose of a business from the purpose of people who are in the business is, I think, not a good thing.

The outer purpose belongs to the horizontal dimension of space and time; the inner purpose concerns a deepening of your Being in the vertical dimension of the timeless Now.

To awaken within the dream is our purpose now. When we are awake within the dream, the ego-created earth-drama comes to an end and a more benign and wonderous dream arises.

As I review my life, I feel I must have missed the point, either then or now.

Rule of religion: purpose breathes even in dirt and stones.

The primary purpose of life is in being in the NOW.

No man should be alone when he opposes Satan. The Church and the ministry of the Word were instituted for this purpose, that hands may be joined together and one may help another.

The inspirations of today are the shams of tomorrow the purpose has departed.

Once such emotional engagement has been created - demand will always follow - yet one could say the "side product of your effort is demand" the primary purpose is to create love.

Waitress: "And to drink?" Artemis: "Spring water. Irish, if you have it. And no ice, please. As your ice is no doubt made from tap water, which rather defeats the purpose of spring water.

I like being involved in the lighter side of journalism because it serves a purpose, and it's fun. And I can keep my opinions off camera if I want.

For storytelling purposes, there has to be conflict, but that doesn't mean the people have to be mean. I've never liked mean-spirited comedy.

practically nothing we do ever stands by itself. If it is good, it will serve some good purpose in the future. If it is evil, it may haunt us and handicap our efforts in unimagined ways.

I would have preferred to capture bin Laden and expose how he uses Islamic ideology for his own purposes.

Art's true purpose is to be human as opposed to some rarefied activity set away from real life. I think art should help you to navigate the real challenges of being a human being.

We have so much ill fortune as inconstancy, or so much bad purpose as folly, we are not so full of evil as we are of inanity; we are not so wretched as we are base

Virtue cannot be followed but for herself, and if one sometimes borrows her mask to some other purpose, she presently pulls it away again.

But we have to ask ourselves, what's the purpose of the stock market? It's supposed to be a source of capital for growing business. It's lost that purpose.

This is the ongoing purpose of full attention: to find a thousand ways to be pierced into wholeness.

Nature shaped the claw to trap, and the tooth to kill, but the thorn...the thorn's only purpose is to hurt.

Counting lines is probably a good idea if you want to print it out and are short on paper, but I fail to see the purpose otherwise.

The purpose of human existence is to learn and to understand as much as we can of what came before us, so we can further the sum total of human knowledge in our life.

Great companies connect to the heartstrings of their employees to make their purposes known.

The only purpose of cats is that they constitute mobile decorative objects.

The purpose of U.S. foreign policy is protecting the security of Americans, not crusading for goodness abroad.

The comfort of that lifestyle began to eat away at me like a cancer almost. It began to rob me of my joy and my faith. It kind of robbed me of my purpose.

Everybody has a purpose.

Find out what you are, then do it on purpose

Be clear about the purpose of money. Money is like health. It is necessary for survival but it is not what you live for.

But perhaps God's purpose in the world (I am only thinking aloud here) is to draw his creatures to him. And you have to admit that tragedies like this one at Virginia Tech help to do that!

Purpose gives birth to hope and instills the passion to act.

Catharsis returns us to the purpose for which were originally intended - to be called by God to do good - and thus ultimately returns us to ourselves.

Definiteness of purpose is the starting point from which one must begin.

IDEAS CAN BE TRANSMUTED INTO CASH THROUGH THE POWER OF DEFINITE PURPOSE, PLUS DEFINITE PLANS.

A man who thinks he has a higher purpose can do terrible things, even to those he professes to love.

He (George W. Bush) is going in the wrong way. And I dare say, that is what the strategy of his administration is, is just to wipe out government's purpose for any social and economic justice at all.

Unlimited power may be available when two or more people coordinate their thoughts and actions in a spirit of perfect harmony for the attainment of a definite purpose.

Life is more than breath and a heartbeat; meaning and purpose are the life of life.

I think that the best companies are companies that have a real purpose.

The self-discovery of your inherent leadership potential and an understanding of who you are and what you are meant to be are the keys to fulfilling your purpose from existence as a leader.

What's the purpose of living in a loft if you put up walls?

...is this not in fact the purpose of young Americans going abroad? To make them think of things they never thought of?

The harvest of this world is to the resolute, and he that is infirm of purpose is ground betwixt the upper and the nether millstone

Desire is the factor that determines what your definite purpose in life shall be.