Purpose Quotes

5907 quotes by 3354 authors

I believe that the very purpose of life is to be happy. From the very core of our being, we desire contentment. In my own… — Dalai Lama
If Goddess religion is not to become mindless idiocy, we must win clear of tendency of magic to become supertition. Magic - and among its… — Starhawk
Each soul in entering the material experience does so for those purposes of advancement towards that awareness of being fully conscious of the oneness with… — Edgar Cayce
If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and astonishing results are the three criteria of a human genius, who could dare compare any great man… — Alphonse de Lamartine
Our emotions can be either corrupted or elevated. Human love was not created to be without premeditated purpose. — Manis Friedman
Money is only unused power. The real purpose of wealth, after food, clothing and shelter, is philanthropy. — Leon Levy
When you least feel like it, do something for someone else. You forget about your own situation. It gives you a purpose, as opposed being… — Dana Reeve
Greatness consists not in the holding of some future office, but really consists in doing great deeds with little means and the accomplishment of vast… — Russell Conwell
Strong lives are those that are marked by a sense of purpose, connectedness, resilience, and fulfillment. — Jenifer Fox
Somehow I am necessary for God's purpose, as necessary in my place as an archangel in his. — John Henry Newman
Life is so generous a giver but we, judging its gifts by their covering, cast them away as ugly or heavy or hard. Remove the… — Giovanni Giocondo
The most difficult thing for us seems to be to give of ourselves, to do away with selfishness. If we really love someone, nothing is… — Nathan Eldon Tanner
What is [the role of money] in the search for meaning? Is our relationship to it one of the chief factors that keeps us in… — Jacob Needleman
I believe that nothing that happens to me is meaningless and that it is good for us all that it should be so, even if… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
There is no other group of sinners in the world that is organized for the purpose of transforming the society in its own image — Scott Lively
The federal statute is invalid, for no legitimate purpose overcomes the purpose and effect to disparage and injure those whom the state, by its marriage… — Anthony Kennedy
Geology is rapidly taking its place as an introduction to the higher history of man. If the author has sought to exalt a favorite science,… — James Dwight Dana
In all humility and sincerity we must admit a power higher than ourselves from whom is derived a positive moral code that will give our… — Delbert L. Stapley
And yet in a funny way our lack of success led to our breakthrough; because, since we could not get a cell line off the… — Cesar Milstein
The fact is prosperity has a purpose. It's to allow us to pursue "the better angels," to give us time to think and grow. — George H. W. Bush

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