Purpose Quotes
I believe that what woman resents is not so much giving herself in pieces as giving herself purposelessly.Anne Morrow Lindbergh
The primary purpose of education is not to teach you to earn your bread, but to make every mouthful sweeter.James R. Angell
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
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.Elisabeth Kubler - Ross
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
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
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
Thoughts lead on to purposes purposes go forth in action actions form habits habits decide character and character fixes our destiny.Tryon Edwards
The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
My purpose in life does not include a hankering to charm society.James Dean
To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life.Alen Coren
Great minds have purposes, others have wishes.Washington Irving
Dreams, ideas, and plans not only are an escape, they give me purpose, a reason to hang on.Steven Patrick Callahan
There are certain themes of which the interest is all - Absorbing, but which are too entirely horrible for the purposes of legitimate fiction.Edgar Allan Poe, The Premature Burial
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
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
Find out who you are and do it on purpose.Dolly Parton
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
Our purpose in Vietnam is to prevent the success of aggression. It is not conquest, it is not empire, it is not foreign bases, it is not domination. It is, simply put, just to prevent the forceful conquest of South Vietnam by North Vietnam.Lyndon B. Johnson
To come to be you must have a vision of Being, a Dream, a Purpose, a Principle. You will become what your vision is.Peter Nivio Zarlenga
If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.William Hazlitt
Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.Samuel Butle
Your purpose in relationships is simply to be your best self, regardless of the circumstances.Rosalene Glickman, Ph. D., Optimal Thinking: How to Be Your Best Self
Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.Aristotle
Our religious faith gives us the answer to the false beliefs of Communism... I have the feeling that God has created us and brought us to our present position of power and strength for some great purpose.President Harry Truman, Public Papers of the President of the United States: Harry S. Truman - 1951 U. S. Gov. 1966 pp548 - 549
The poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be engaged in a desperate struggle for food and shelter is to be wholly free from a sense of futility.Eric Hoffer, "The True Believer", 1951
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.Carl Jung, "Memories, Dreams, Reflections", 1962
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
Education, which was at first made universal in order that all might be able to read and write, has been found capable of serving quite other purposes. By instilling nonsense it unifies populations and generates collective enthusiasm.Bertrand Russell
America - A great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far - Reaching in purpose.Herbert Hoove
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
Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny.Tyron Edwards
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
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
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 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 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
