Purpose Quotes

5907 quotes by 3305 authors

Baffling late-life discovery: Golfers wear those awful clothes on purpose. — Herb Caen
The very purpose of religion is to control yourself, not to criticize others. Rather, we must criticize ourselves. How much am I doing about my… — Dalai Lama
Knowledge is always accompanied with accessories of emotion and purpose. — Alfred North Whitehead
As many arrows, loosed several ways, come to one mark...so many a thousand actions, once afoot, end in one purpose. — William Shakespeare
Never forget that the purpose for which a man lives is the improvement of the man himself, so that he may go out of this… — William E. Gladstone
The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do. — Pablo Casals
The great and glorious masterpiece of humanity is to know how to live with a purpose. — Michel de Montaigne
There are certain things that are fundamental to human fulfillment. The essence of these needs is captured in the phrase 'to live, to love, to… — Stephen Covey
The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die. — George Bernard Shaw
The purpose of fear is to determine how badly you want your dream. — Robin Sharma
Without wisdom, the future has no meaning, no valuable purpose. — Herbie Hancock
The purpose of life is not to be happy, the purpose of life is to matter.. — Leo Rosten
What was done with the seed saved from the India Hemp last summer? It ought, all of it, to have been sewn again; that not… — George Washington
Foreign Assistance is not an end in itself. The purpose of aid must be to create the conditions where it is no longer needed. — Barack Obama
Our policy is directed not against any country or doctrine but against hunger, poverty, desperation and chaos. Its purpose should be the revival of a… — George C. Marshall
We are here because we share a fundamental belief: that poverty, illiteracy, disease and inequality do not belong in the twenty-first century. We share a… — Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
So often do you see collegians enter life with high resolve and lofty purpose and then watch them shrink and shrink to sordid, selfish, shrewd… — W. E. B. Du Bois
Our children long for realistic maps of the future that they can be proud of. Where are the cartographers of human purpose? — Carl Sagan
The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows it to realize its supreme purpose… — Carl Jung
If the creator has a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely would have meant for us to stick it out. — Arthur Koestler

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