Purpose Quotes

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This very night I am going to leave off tobacco! Surely there must be some other world in which this unconquerable purpose shall be realised. — Charles Lamb
Many people flounder about in life because they do not have a purpose, an objective toward which to work. — George Halas
But perhaps God's purpose in the world (I am only thinking aloud here) is to draw his creatures to him. And you have to admit… — Dinesh D'Souza
Men are not flattered by being shown that there has been a difference of purpose between the Almighty and them. — Abraham Lincoln
My opinion is that there would never have been an infidel, if there had never been a priest. The artificial structures they have built on… — Thomas Jefferson
Unless you assume a God, the question of life's purpose is meaningless. — Bertrand Russell
Peace is not just the absence of war, it is the active presence of a capacity for love and compassion, and reciprocity. It is an… — Dennis Kucinich
Why should I live? Why should I do anything? Is there in life any purpose which the inevitable death that awaits me does not undo… — Leo Tolstoy
I was this young boy and I saw this man with his hands round my sister's neck, I was just standing there with her two… — Alexander McQueen
For that purpose Christ instituted holy baptism, thereby to clothe you with his righteousness. It is tantamount to his saying, My righteousness shall be your… — Martin Luther
I do not conceive of any manifestation of culture, of science, of art, as purposes in themselves. I think the purpose of science and culture… — Fidel Castro
Indeed, we need not look back half a century to times which many now living remember well, and see the wonderful advances in the sciences… — Thomas Jefferson
Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the… — Franz Grillparzer
It is only the enlightened ruler and the wise general who will use the highest intelligence of the army for the purposes of spying, and… — Sun Tzu
The secret of passion is purpose. — Robin Sharma
Let us subdue the ravages of the baser-self, and aspire to the higher calling of exalting joy through compassion, for that is the one true… — Bryant H. McGill
If the purpose of lamentation be to excite pity, it is surely superfluous for age and weakness to tell their plaintive stories; for pity presupposes… — Lyndon B. Johnson
States are more like people than they are like anything else: they exist by purpose, reason, suffering, and joy. And peace between states is also… — Roger Scruton
As things are now going the peace we make, what peace we seem to be making, will be a peace of oil, a peace of… — Archibald MacLeish
The purpose of faith isn't always to keep us from having trouble. It is often to carry us through trouble. If we never had any… — Joyce Meyer

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