If we keep a goal firmly in mind, we will know when we have reached it. This gives us a sense of… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
“When it comes to purpose and preparation, most of us want to skip the preparation part and get right to purpose, which… — Andrena Sawyer Copy Share Image
I realized you might make money at writing, and you might even make a living at it. So after that I didn't… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
All the same, they [books] do serve some purpose. Culture doesn't save anything or anyone, it doesn't justify. But it's a product… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Just as a gardener must tend his or her plot, keeping out the weeds, you must tend the garden of your mind,… — Randy Gage Copy Share Image
The police are not entrusted with a mission which differentiates them from those they serve. Being unconcerned with ultimate purposes, they are… — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share Image
“Why wait? So precious is this life—this gift—this temporary blindness. Burn and drown and embrace the false dark, then grasp the unthinkable… — Jennifer DeLucy Copy Share Image
We've been fighting from the beginning for organic architecture. That is, architecture where the whole is to the part as the part… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
It could be said that all armed conflicts are a ludicrous and shameful waste of lives, but World War I has a… — Scott Spencer Copy Share Image
It seemed to me the way it must feel to people who cut themselves on purpose. Not pretty, but clean. Not good,… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
I have over and over again explained that the purpose of the Boy Scout and Girl Guide Movement is to build men… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Free-will doctrine-what does it? It magnifies man into God. It declares God's purposes a nullity, since they cannot be carried out unless… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
I don’t have the time to devote to circles or covens. I have to fit things in when and where I can,… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
Each of us has a purpose for living beyond our own survival and pleasure. Every individual is like a thread in a… — John Templeton Copy Share Image
We can accomplish almost anything within our ability if we but think we can! Every great achievement in this world was first… — George Matthew Adams Copy Share Image
So, the important thing for us to remember, when we're searching for right livelihood, is to stop looking for something to do,… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
Think about a piece of music - some great symphony - we don't expect it to get better as it develops, or… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
However modest one may be in one's demand for intellectual cleanliness, one cannot help feeling, when coming into contact with the New… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The truly educated man is not a man who knows a bit of everything, not even the man who knows all the… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
What I really hoped for, no doubt, was to come upon one of those lives which begin nowhere, which lead us through… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I am firmly opposed to the government entering into any business the major purpose of which is competition with our citizens... for… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
“The Calling means so much to me. It's this idea of perception and how the mythology of the universe and Earth have… — S. Clifford Copy Share Image
When we trace the part of which this terrestrial system is composed, and when we view the general connection of those several… — James Hutton Copy Share Image
Yoga’s supreme objective is to awaken an exalted state of spiritual realization, yet the tradition also teaches you how to live and… — Rod Stryker Copy Share Image
Movies serve many purposes, and I've visited many of those genres, from the most light, frivolous comedy that is just trying to… — Antonio Banderas Copy Share Image
Really, a young Atheist cannot guard his faith too carefully. Dangers lie in wait for him on every side. You must not… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The purpose of life is to be happy. I don't think it's any more complicated than that. It's also important not to… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
The people at the record company had asked me if I could write a song about my life, my relationship with God,… — Billy Ray Cyrus Copy Share Image
We're going to do three things: teach-ins across the country so people can learn about each other's issues and causes; parties with… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
The Simpson's in Piccadilly has been turned into the largest bookstore in all of Europe! How can they fill it? All of… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
If you give orders and explain nothing, you might get obedience, but you'll get no creativity. If you tell them your purpose,… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Human consciousness arose but a minute before midnight on the geological clock. Yet we mayflies try to bend an ancient world to… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
You can't blame science for being used for evil purposes. What you can do is say, 'This is an exceedingly powerful tool.'… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Droll thing life is -- that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose. The most you can hope from it… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
It is as if a king had sent you to a country to carry out one special, specific task. You go to… — Rumi Copy Share Image
The purpose of propaganda is not to provide interesting distraction for blasé young gentlemen, but to convince... the masses. But the masses… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
If you already understand your purpose, are you prepared to change your plans to match God’s will? If you aren’t, you can… — T. D. Jakes Copy Share Image
The purpose of the E.U. Withdrawal Bill is in any event not to decide the terms of Brexit but to ensure that… — Dominic Grieve Copy Share Image
The Church exists for nothing else but to draw men into Christ, to make them little Christs. If they are not doing… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The point is that we should become committed about everything we do; whether it is small or big. If we find something… — T Joseph Benziger Copy Share Image