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
Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?Pliny the Elde
The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions which have been hidden by the answers.James Baldwin
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
Great minds have purposes, little minds have wishes.Washington Irving
Anyone can become angry. That is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose and in the right way - That is not easy.Aristotle
The purpose of life is a life of purpose.Robert Byrne
Unless a life is activated by sustained purpose it can become a depressingly haphazard affair.Richard Guggenheime
Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.Aristotle
Nothing can resist the human will that will stake even its existence on its stated purpose.Benjamin Disraeli
The wise man thinks about his troubles only when there is some purpose in doing so; at other times he thinks about others things.Bertrand Russell
Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.George Herbert Walker Bush
Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes.Kenneth Hildebrand
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
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
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
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
The prime purpose of eloquence is to keep other people from talking.Louis Vermeil
The universal and lasting establishment of peace constitutes not merely a part, but the whole final purpose and end of the science of right as viewed within the limits of reason.Immanuel Kant, The Science of Right
Everyone has a purpose in life. Perhaps yours is watching television.David Letterman
The purpose of life is to live a life of purpose.Richard Leide
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
The purpose of most computer languages is to lengthen your resume by a word and a comma.Larry Wall
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
Some say it will bring war to the heavens, but its purpose is to deter war, in the heavens and on earth.Ronald Reagan
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
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 purpose of a liberal arts education is to learn that a person can like both cats *and* dogs!Sonjay Anand
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
Every man serves a useful purpose A miser, for example, makes a wonderful ancestor.Laurence J. Pete
Every man serves a useful purpose: A miser, for example, makes a wonderful ancestor.Laurence J. Pete
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
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
The atom, being for all practical purposes the stable unit of the physical plane, is a constantly changing vortex of reactions.Unknown
As long as anyone believes that his ideal and purpose is outside him, that it is above the clouds, in the past or in the future, he will go outside himself and seek fulfillment where it cannot be found. He will look for solutions and answers at every point except where they can be found - - In himself.Erich Frohm
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
The real distinction is between those who adapt their purposes to reality and those who seek to mold reality in the light of their purposes.Henry Kissinge
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
