My Purpose Quotes

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

Let no act be done without purpose.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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?

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

Not everyone has a purpose.

Purpose is not necessary to make a building beautiful.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Whoever thinks much and to good purpose easily forgets his own experiences, but not the thoughts which these experiences have called forth.

Moral sensibilities are nowadays at such cross-purposes that to one man a morality is proved by its utility, while to another its utility refutes it.

Take a human body, a male and a female, it is obvious that certain parts are meant together. There is a purpose and a design for it and there is a result of that.

For the purpose of knowledge we must know how to make use of the inward current which draws us towards a thing, and also of the current which after a time draws us away from it.

God's purpose is greater than our problems, our pain and even our sin.

The Bible is clear that God considers 40 days a spiritually significant time period. Whenever God wanted to prepare someone for his purposes, he took 40 days.

Priorities and purpose help keep us on track.

God has a purpose behind every problem.

We can speak very much to the purpose and yet in such a way that the whole world cries out in contradiction: namely, when we are not speaking to the whole world.

America... Cherishes no purpose save to merit the favor of Almighty God.

The higher state to which [America] seeks the allegiance of all mankind is not of human, but of divine origin. She cherishes no purpose save to merit the favor of Almighty God.

When I contemplated purpose I also contemplated chance and foolishness.

Disobedience to conscience is voluntary; bad poetry, on the other hand, is usually not made on purpose.

I didn't show up here to give your life purpose now that your life's over. That's up to you to figure out.

The purpose of punishment is to improve those who do the punishing--that is the final recourse of those who support punishment.

So he lived, not knowing and not seeing any chance of knowing what he was and for what purpose he had been placed in the word.

How often have I tried just hard enough so that I can then say to myself that I tried with the real purpose of assuaging my guilt about something I did not wish to succeed in the first place?

What drives me is exploration with a purpose, more the classic Royal Geographical Society genre.

The Lord created you and me for the purpose of becoming Gods like himself.

The purpose of war is to support your government's decisions by force.

For many, to live in a universe that may have no purpose, and no creator, is unthinkable.

People are Gods masterpieces, created for the purposes that God has already mapped out.