Purpose Quotes · Page 168

“Be persistent and diligent in the way you spend your time daily”

— Sunday Adelaja

Petty things become unimportant when people are impassioned about a purpose higher than self.

— Stephen Covey

“Losing your job releases you from the control of the world system”

— Sunday Adelaja

The hard part about following your purpose is the distraction everyone pulls you toward.

— Kimbal Musk

The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon.

— Brandon Sanderson

You get to consciously decide what has meaning and what doesn't. You get to decide what to worship.

— David Foster Wallace

Happinessis a byproduct of function. Those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war.

— William S. Burroughs

I'll do a joke on purpose that really doesn't work just to show that that's funny.

— Deon Cole

Sometimes I think my purpose is as a saboteur when I'm working with other people, derailing what they're trying to do or…

— Mark Leyner

People want to find a 'meaning' in everything and everyone. That's the problem - there is no meaning in everything.

— Andrew Lakey

Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit, and the only means of making concrete the purpose of its varied quickness…

— Mark Rothko

The more I thought about myself, the weaker I got. The more I recognized that I was serving a purpose larger than…

— Eric Greitens

But let me tell you what happens when regulations go too far, when they seem to exist only for the purpose of…

— Marco Rubio

African art is functional, it serves a purpose. It's not a dormant. It's not a means to collect the largest cheering section.…

— Mos Def

In order for you to be good you don't need people's approval, just identify your gift and purpose in this world then…

— Anonymous

Your self-sacrificin g devotion to your purpose in life and your unwavering faith will carry you through times of difficulty.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

All too often, we see politicians on both sides desperately twisting themselves into partisan-hack pretzels, for the sole purpose of defending their…

— Kat Timpf

What's amazing about a DJ set is when you're able to re-appropriate a song or give purpose to a song that people…

— A-Trak

“Obedience leads to a powerful, confident life. When you are obedient, and when you allow yourself to be led by God through…

— Jim George

We must believe that He permits it [this war] for some wise purpose of his own, mysterious and unknown to us; and…

— Abraham Lincoln

Granpa said if there was less words, there wouldn't be as much trouble in the world. He said privately to me that…

— Forrest Carter

Then you don't know. You can't know what it feels like to meet a person and suddenly know without a doubt that…

— Hilary Duff

The distinction between a gallery and a museum is enormous. The gallery is about looking at a thing of beauty; the purpose…

— Neil MacGregor

“It's very simple. Keep your body as clean as possible, your mind as clear as possible. That's all you need. And do…

— Swami Satchidananda

“You need to see time correctly for you not to waste your life”

— Sunday Adelaja

“I believe life holds a specific purpose for you and the most imporrtant thing you can do is find it.”

— Will Edwards

“Needing a purpose is one thing, needing success is a rotten thing.”

— Bear Rineheart

“We cannot glorify God when we refuse to celebrate others”

— Sunday Adelaja

I paint for the sole purpose of magnifying the privilege of being alive.

— Robert Henri

Baffling late-life discovery: Golfers wear those awful clothes on purpose.

— Herb Caen

“God has a purpose for our feelings -- the good and the bad.”

— Carolyn Mahaney

I have not given any drawn or lost games, because I thought them inadequate to the purpose of the book.

— Jose Raul Capablanca

“no matter how difficult, because I would have a purpose in life, I would have hope.”

— Osamu Dazai

“Being married or having children does not mean you are living an effective life”

— Sunday Adelaja

You need to find your OWN purpose. I cannot BUILD desire.

— Jillian Michaels

The fundamental purpose of the artist is the same as that of a scientist: to state a fact.

— Herbert Read

But we are strong, each in our purpose, and we are all more strong together.

— Bram Stoker

“Celebrate people and love them even at their lowest point”

— Sunday Adelaja

Wherever you are in life, look at your beliefs. They put you there

— Oprah Winfrey

The purpose of religion is to keep the poor from killing the rich.

— Napoleon Bonaparte