Purpose Quotes
Every man serves a useful purpose: A miser, for example, makes a wonderful ancestor.Laurence J. Pete
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
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
There is nothing sadder in this world than the waste of human potential. The purpose of evolution is to raise us out of the mud, not have us grovelling in it.Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Cicely, 1992
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
I believe and I say it is true Democratic feeling, that all the measures of the government are directed tot he purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.William Henry Harrison, Speech, October 1, 1840
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
Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?Pliny the Elde
To display the greatest powers, unless they are applied to great purposes, makes nothing for the character of greatness.William Hazlitt, on the Pleasure of Hating
Great minds have purposes, others have wishes.Washington Irving
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
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
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
The prime purpose of eloquence is to keep other people from talking.Louis Vermeil
We scientists, whose tragic destiny it has been to make the methods of annihilation ever more gruesome and more effective, must consider it our solemn and transcendent duty to do all in our power in preventing these weapons from being used for the brutal purpose for which they were invented.Albert Einstein
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
Eventually, alas, I realized the main purpose of buying cocaine is to run out of it.George Carlin, From his book - Brain Droppings
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
Men do not invent Myths. They only invent fables, and tell lies. True Myths create themselves, and find their expression in the men who serve their purpose.Denis Johnston
All of us are working together for the same end; some of us knowingly and purposefully, others unconsciously.Marcus Aurelius, Meditations? Book Seven
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
The purpose of most computer languages is to lengthen your resume by a word and a comma.Larry Wall
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
The purpose of life is a life of purpose.Robert Byrne
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 purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.Morris Adle
Commitment means that it is possible for a man to yield the nerve center of his consent to a purpose or cause, a movement or an ideal, which may be more important to him than whether he lives or dies.Howard Thurman
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
The secret of success is constancy of purpose.Benjamin Disraeli
Some say it will bring war to the heavens, but its purpose is to deter war, in the heavens and on earth.Ronald Reagan
The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Human consciousness arose but a minute before midnight on the geological clock. Yet we mayflies try to bend an ancient world to our purposes, ignorant perhaps of the messages buried in its long history. Let us hope that we are still in the early morning of our April day.Stephen Jay Gould
The secret of success is constancy to purpose.Benjamin Disraeli
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 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
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 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
