Purpose Quotes
The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.William Shakespeare, "The Merchant of Venice", Act 1 scene 3
The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
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
I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there? s purpose and worth to each and every life.Ronald Reagan
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
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 sufficient warrant.John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
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
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
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
America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world.George Herbert Walker Bush
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
To what purpose should I trouble myself in searching out the secrets of the stars, having death or slavery continually before my eyes?Anaximenes
Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.Charles Du Bos
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
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
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
I believe that what woman resents is not so much giving herself in pieces as giving herself purposelessly.Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.Eric Hoffe
You can have anything you want - - If you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.William Adams
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
The secret of success is constancy to purpose.Benjamin Disraeli
Everyone has a purpose in life. Perhaps yours is watching television.David Letterman
Some say it will bring war to the heavens, but its purpose is to deter war, in the heavens and on earth.Ronald Reagan
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of being.Carl Jung
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 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
Any ideas, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.Napoleon Hill
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 prime purpose of eloquence is to keep other people from talking.Louis Vermeil
The primary purpose of education is not to teach you to earn your bread, but to make every mouthful sweeter.James R. Angell
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
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
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
My purpose in life does not include a hankering to charm society.James Dean
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
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
Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes.Kenneth Hildebrand
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
