My Purpose Quotes

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.

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

When I contemplated purpose I also contemplated chance and foolishness.

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.

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

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.

God has a purpose behind every problem.

Priorities and purpose help keep us on track.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

God owes me nothing. He doesn't have to work for anything good in my life. That is only for those who are called according to His purpose.

Our children long for realistic maps of the future that they can be proud of. Where are the cartographers of human purpose?

Man would sooner have the Void for his purpose than be void of Purpose.

I know our policies work best to lift young men and women up - regardless of their background - so that they can choose their own path and live lives of dignity, purpose, and meaning.

I believe that the purpose of influence is to speak up for those who have no influence. And fame is not for our own benefit, or notoriety is not for our own benefit, it's for leverage to do good.

If people knew who the angels were, they would be very nice when they saw one and would still do their same evil garbage when they thought none were around. Knowing who they are defeats the purpose.

Your weaknesses are not an accident but deliberately allowed, very interesting phrase, deliberately allowed in your life for the purpose of demonstrating His power through you.

The purpose of your life fits into a much larger, cosmic purpose that God has designed for eternity.

Use the new technologies for the old purposes.

What a beautiful testament to the creative spirit and its true motives, to creative contribution coming from a place of purpose rather than a hunger for profit.

What kind of people do we wish to become, and how do we know an American when we see one? Is it possible to pursue a common purpose without a common history or a standard text?

I'm not born here to have a personality. I'm here to have a spirit. Each of us is born with a purpose for being alive.

If you have life, you have purpose. It can't be otherwise.

living for a high purpose is as honorable as dying for it.

There is one thing no people have ever done; that is, to oppose a threatening war with intelligent and vigorous purpose some years before it was due to arrive.

My films require that the spectator ask the big existential questions. If you're not interested of turning inwards for answers, my films won't fulfill their whole purpose.

If you want to find your purpose in life, find your wound.

We ought to ban hunting, I suggest, if there isn't a purpose other than sport and fun. That should be against the law.

Ugliness is a letter of credit for some special purposes.

The better cancer patients understand why they are here on this planet and what their spiritual purpose is, the better their prognosis for survival.

Christians can be positive even in a negative situation because we know God has a purpose for allowing that problem.

I believe in America. I believe in her purpose and her promise. I believe her best days have not yet been lived. I believe her greatest deeds are reserved for the generations to come.

In the most advanced state of love we don't love for any reason or purpose. We don't even direct our love necessarily to an object.

Everything I've always done has been for the sole purpose of increasing my lovemaking output. A lot of guys won't admit that, but I do. I just want to make love.

Every instance of a man's suffering the penalty of the law is an instance of the failure of that penalty in effecting its purpose, which is to deter.

God then made the first woman, not directly out of his own substance, but from Adam's rib. Her purpose was to serve man.

Miracles have a purpose. Miracles help people believe in enlightenment. The real miracle is the transformation of consciousness from limitation and pain to enlightenment and ecstasy.

I'm very minimalist. However, I don't like to hang onto any particular style - whatever serves the purpose.

Luck is just another word for tenacity of purpose.

When I behold a rich landscape, it is less to my purpose to recite correctly the order and superposition of the strata, than to know why all thought of multitude is lost in a tranquil sense of unity.

Human character evermore publishes itself. The most fugitive deed and word, the intimated purpose, express character.

I'm a big micro manager; I'm a stickler about organisation; everything needs a place, a purpose, and micro managing myself even when I'm in the studio.

The poorest experience is rich enough for all the purposes of expressing thought

I don't think of myself as a guru but as a teacher. If one means 'guru' in the original sense a 'dispeller of darkness' then that certainly is my purpose.

[M]an is fulfilling the purpose of existence who no longer needs to have any purpose except to live. That is to say, who is content.

We all wanted what we wanted, and when the Lord fulfilled HIS purpose rather than ours, we struck out against him. In anger. In disappointment. Yet, it is God's will that prevails.

You are here to do something you are uniquely created for. No one else can do it like you can, that's why you're here