Purpose Quotes
In the defense of our nation, a president must be a clear - Eyed realist. There are limits to the smiles and scowls of diplomacy. Armies and missiles are not stopped by stiff notes of condemnation. They are held in check by strength and purpose and the promise of swift punishment.George W. Bush, speech, November 19, 1999
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self - Gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.Helen Kelle
The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love.Don Barthelme
Unless a life is activated by sustained purpose it can become a depressingly haphazard affair.Richard Guggenheime
The real danger from advertising is that it helps to shatter and ultimately destroy our most precious non - Material possessions the confidence in the existence of meaningful purposes of human activity and respect for the integrity of man.Paul Sweezy
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 learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.Morris Adle
Many persons have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self - Gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.Helen Kelle
Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.Charles Du Bos
The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us to develop, to their fullest extent, the capacities of every kind with which the God who made us has endowed us.Anna James
Everyone has a purpose in life. Perhaps yours is watching television.David Letterman
What business strategy is all about; what distinguishes it from all other kinds of business planning - Is, in a word, competitive advantage. Without competitors there would be no need for strategy, for the sole purpose of strategic planning is to enable the company to gain, as effectively as possible, a sustainable edge over its competitors.Keniche Ohnae
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.Charles Robert Darwin
The secret of success is constancy to purpose.Benjamin Disraeli
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
The atom, being for all practical purposes the stable unit of the physical plane, is a constantly changing vortex of reactions.Unknown
The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant.John Stuart Mill, "On Liberty", 1859
Great minds have purposes, others have wishes. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.Washington Irving
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
Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost and replaces by vague ritual.Frank Herbert, Dune
The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.William Shakespeare, "The Merchant of Venice", Act 1 scene 3
Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat.Fran Lebowitz
The primary purpose of the Data statement is to give names to constants; instead of referring to pi as 3. 141592653589793 at every appearance, the variable Pi can be given that value with a Data statement and used instead of the longer form of the constant. This also simplifies modifying the program, should the value of pi change.Fortran manual for Xerox Computers
Life becomes religious whenever we make it so when some new light is seen, when some deeper appreciation is felt, when some larger outlook is gained, when some nobler purpose is formed, when some task is well done.Sophia Blanche Lyon Fahs
This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, Epistle Dedicatory
America - A great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far - Reaching in purpose.Herbert Hoove
Great minds have purposes, others have wishes.Washington Irving
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
Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into a even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill - Designed for the purpose.Winston Churchill
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. Thus people haunted by the purposelessness of their lives try to find a new content not only by dedicating themselves to a holy cause but also by nursing a fanatical grievance. A mass movement offers them unlimited opportunities for both.Eric Hoffe
A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.Kurt Vonnegut, Sirens of Titan
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
Who knows why we live, and struggle, and die... Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.Alan Stewart Paton
Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.Thomas Alva Edison
This is the true joy in life - - Being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one...George Bernard Shaw
As a man can drink water from any side of a full tank, so the skilled theologian can wrest from any scripture that which will serve his purpose.Bhagavad Gita
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
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
