Purpose Quotes

5907 quotes by 3305 authors

Some men use no other means to acquire respect than by insisting on it; and it sometimes answers their purpose, as it does a highwayman's… — William Shenstone
I don't know if there's an actors' slow-pitch softball league I could join. My agency has a team, but they say it would be a… — Miles Teller
The prime purpose of being four is to enjoy being four - of secondary importance is to prepare for being five. — Jim Trelease
There is a criterion by which you can judge whether the thoughts you are thinking and the things you are doing are right for you.… — Peace Pilgrim
The realization of our true substance and potential is the purpose of creation. — Morihei Ueshiba
Prayer does not change the purpose of God. But prayer does change the action of God. — Chuck Smith
Perhaps extreme danger strips us of all pretenses, all ambitions, all confusions, focusing us more intensely than we are otherwise ever focused, so that we… — Dean Koontz
You don't scream because you're scared. You scream on purpose. — Seohyun
The circumstances of the world are so variable that an irrevocable purpose or opinion is almost synonymous with a foolish one. — William H. Seward
Develop a capacity for things like purpose, love, wonder, courage, and grace. — John Jantsch
Life becomes religious whenever we make it so: when some new light is seen, when some deeper appreciation is felt, when some larger outlook is… — Sophia Lyon Fahs
There is only one purpose for all of life, and that is for you and all that lives to experience fullest glory...everything else you say,… — Neale Donald Walsch
Disappointment often focuses on the failure of our own agenda rather than on God's long-term purposes for us, which may use stress and struggle as… — Luci Shaw
We must not only give what we have, we must give what we are. — Desire-Joseph Mercier
Certainly one of the most enthralling things about human life is the recognition that we live in what, for practical purposes, is a universe without… — James Van Allen
Although prison officials have long battled illegal cellphones, smartphones have changed the game. With Internet access, a prisoner can call up phone directories, maps and… — Kim Severson
[It is not the purpose nor right of Congress] to attend to what generosity and humanity require, but to what the Constitution and their duty… — William Branch Giles
We have learned that power is a positive force if it is used for positive purposes. — Elizabeth Dole
The fact about himself that the liar hides is that he is attempting to lead us away from a correct apprehension of reality; we are… — Harry Frankfurt
Man is not a being who stands still, he is a being in the process of becoming. The more he enables himself to become, the… — Rudolf Steiner

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