Purpose Quotes
The purpose of life is a life of purpose.Robert Byrne
The purpose of life is to fight maturity.Dick Werthime
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
Dreams, ideas, and plans not only are an escape, they give me purpose, a reason to hang on.Steven Patrick Callahan
The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth. It is obvious that man is himself a traveler; that the purpose of this world is not to have and to hold but to give and serve. There can be no other meaning.Sir Wilfred T. Grenfell
The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - - That is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.James Thurbe
To want to be what one can be is purpose in life.Cynthia Ozick, O Magazine, September 2002
The secret of success is constancy to purpose.Benjamin Disraeli
The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.Quentin Crisp
We all dream we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake.Erich Fromm
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
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 devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.William Shakespeare, "The Merchant of Venice", Act 1 scene 3
This is our purpose: to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been bestowed upon us; to live in such a way that we may be proud of ourselves; to act in such a way that some part of us lives on.Oswald Spengle
The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences.Ruth Benedict
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
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - A point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of being.Carl Jung
I am often troubled as I try hard here to create a new sense of common purpose... that sometimes we forget that we are all in this because we are seeking a good that helps all Americans.William Jefferson Clinton
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
The wit makes fun of other persons the satirist makes fun of the world the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - - That is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.James Thurbe
Four snakes gliding up and down a hollow for no purpose that I could see - - Not to eat, not for love, but only gliding.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great minds have purposes, others have wishes. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.Washington Irving
The right of bearing arms for a lawful purpose is not a right granted by the Constitution neither is it in any manner dependent upon that instrument for its existence.U. S. vs Cruikshan
A man can go on without wealth, and even without purpose, for a while. But he will not go on without hope.C. Neil Strait
Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.Samuel Butle
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
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
The purpose of parenting is to provide steady and wide - Ranging opportunities for a child. The child does the rest.Michael
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
