Purpose Quotes
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
If either man or woman would realize that the full power of personal beauty, it must be by cherishing noble thoughts and hopes and purposes; by having something to do and something to live for that is worthy of humanity, and which, by expanding and symmetry to the body which contains it.Upham
My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today I knew it then as purpose.Bette Davis
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 only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.William Cowpe
More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent.William Ashley
If the creator had a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely meant us to stick it out.Arthur Koestle
Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character, and one of the best instruments of success. Without it genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies.Philip Dormer Chesterfield
Dreams, ideas, and plans not only are an escape, they give me purpose, a reason to hang on.Steven Patrick Callahan
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
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
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
Eventually, alas, I realized the main purpose of buying cocaine is to run out of it.George Carlin, From his book - Brain Droppings
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
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
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
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
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
How strange is the lot of us mortals Each of us is here for a brief sojourn for what purpose he knows not, though he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.Albert Einstein
I cannot believe that the purpose of life is merely to be happy. I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate. I think it is above all to matter, to count, to stand for something. To have it make some difference that you lived at all.Leo Rosten
The secret of success is constancy of purpose.Benjamin Disraeli
Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny.Tyron Edwards
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
The purpose of life is to live a life of purpose.Richard Leide
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
Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat.Fran Lebowitz
Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success.T. T. Munge
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
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
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
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 atom, being for all practical purposes the stable unit of the physical plane, is a constantly changing vortex of reactions.Unknown
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
To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life.Alen Coren
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
The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences.Ruth Benedict
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
