Purpose Quotes
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.Carl Gustav Jung
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of being.Carl Jung
Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things no one wanted even one of in the first place is giving America a new sense of purpose.Andy Rooney
The purpose of life is to fight maturity.Dick Werthime
See first that the design is wise and just: that ascertained, pursue it resolutely; do not for one repulse forego the purpose that you resolved to effect.William Shakespeare
The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.Eric Hoffe
I report to you that our country is challenged at home and abroad that it is our will that is being tried and not our strength our sense of purpose and not our ability to achieve a better America.Lyndon B. Johnson
Eventually, alas, I realized the main purpose of buying cocaine is to run out of it.George Carlin, From his book - Brain Droppings
Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?Pliny the Elde
The longer I live, the more I am certain that the great difference between the great and the insignificant, is energy - Invincible determination - - A purpose once fixed, and then death or victory.Sir Thomas Bowell Buxton
The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences.Ruth Benedict
America - A great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far - Reaching in purpose.Herbert Hoove
Rather do what is nothing in the purpose than to be idle, that the devil may find thee doing. The bird that sits is easily shot when the fliers escape the fowler. Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all the virtues, and is the self - Made sepulcher of a living man.Francis Quarles
The wise man thinks about his troubles only when there is some purpose in doing so; at other times he thinks about others things.Bertrand Russell
The real distinction is between those who adapt their purposes to reality and those who seek to mold reality in the light of their purposes.Henry Kissinge
The history of the human race, viewed as a whole may be regarded as the realization of a hidden plan of nature to bring about a political constitution, internally, and for this purpose, also externally perfect, as the only state in which all the capacities implanted by her in mankind can be fully developed.Immanuel Kant
To what purpose should I trouble myself in searching out the secrets of the stars, having death or slavery continually before my eyes?Anaximenes
Learn to get in touch with silence within yourself, And know that everything in this life has purpose. There are no mistakes, No coincidences, All events are blessings given to us to learn from.Elizabeth Kubler - Ross
There is an art of which every man should be a master the art of reflection. If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?William Hart Coleridge
Every man serves a useful purpose A miser, for example, makes a wonderful ancestor.Laurence J. Pete
We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love... and then we return home.Australian Aboriginal Prove
This is the true joy in life - - Being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one...George Bernard Shaw
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.Elisabeth Kuebler - Ross
She knows what is the best purpose of education not to be frightened by the best but to treat it as part of daily life.John Mason Brown
Any ideas, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.Napoleon Hill
We ought not to look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dear - Brought experience.George Washington
She knows what is the best purpose of education: not to be frightened by the best but to treat it as part of daily life.John Mason Brown
The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.Morris Adle
My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute.Ayn Rand
More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent.William Ashley
The universal and lasting establishment of peace constitutes not merely a part, but the whole final purpose and end of the science of right as viewed within the limits of reason.Immanuel Kant, The Science of Right
To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life.Alen Coren
The fundamental qualities for good execution of a plan is first; intelligence; then discernment and judgment, which enable one to recognize the best method as to attain it; the singleness of purpose; and, lastly, what is most essential of all, will - Stubborn will.Ferdinand Foch
A state that dwarfs its men in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes, will find that with small men no great things can really be accomplished.John Stewart Mills
The American Constitution is, so far as I can see, the most wonderful work ever struck off at a given time by the brain and purpose of man.William Gladstone
The purpose of life is to live a life of purpose.Richard Leide
Nature is not cruel, pitilessly, indifferent. This is one of the hardest lessons for humans to learn. We cannot admit that things might be neither good nor evil, neither cruel nor kind, but simply callous - - Indifferent to all suffering, lacking all purpose.Richard Dawkins
