Purpose Quotes
5907 quotes by 3153 authors
-
Riding exhilarated me; it gave me a joy and a purpose.
— Ann Romney
-
I find it extraordinary that this purpose which drove how we viewed the world is now considered to be something that has no effect upon…
— Jeremy Paxton
-
I was proud to share the stories of my friends at Georgetown Law who have suffered dire medical consequences because our student insurance does not…
— Sandra Fluke
-
One of the things I realized... is how few success stories there are in websites or products or businesses that exist primarily for an altruistic…
— Andrew Mason
-
Rap culture is interesting and different and has purpose but it has a non-romantic view of life and of social feelings. There may be a…
— Hal David
-
It is kind of nice to have a common purpose.
— Paul Wolfowitz
-
I think punditry serves no purpose.
— Nate Silver
-
The purpose of a business is to create customers.
— Sam Wyly
-
For decades Republicans have made policy with a higher purpose in mind: to solidify the GOP base or to damage the institutions and movements aligned…
— Thomas Frank
-
I wanted to be a star - with a purpose.
— Laurieann Gibson
-
Facing my own death brought an instant sense of clarity and purpose.
— Tom Shadyac
-
The purpose of the minority is to become the majority.
— Pete Sessions
-
What is the nature of that place where our original self is one with its longing to explore its own deepest possibilities, and where discovering…
— Guy Finley
-
The purpose of making people feel uncomfortable is to play with their preconceptions.
— Mike White
-
Writing comes from that territory of being invalidated. But I had a sense of purpose, too. I wanted to stop apologising for my health, and…
— Hilary Mantel
-
Rhyme is a mnemonic device, an aid to the memory. And some poems are themselves mnemonics, that is to say, the whole purpose of the…
— James Fenton
-
My father was famous for his photographic memory. He was in the OSS. They trained him to be captured on purpose and to read upside…
— Mark Helprin
-
That was the miracle of Abraham Lincoln, politician. He pursued the high purpose of moving justice forward via the low arts of patronage and patronization.…
— Joe Klein
-
When Republicans used reconciliation in 2001 for the Bush tax cuts, they used it to increase the deficit. The whole purpose of reconciliation is for…
— Kent Conrad
-
For many, to live in a universe that may have no purpose, and no creator, is unthinkable.
— Lawrence M. Krauss
Who Wrote These Purpose Quotes
3,153 authors contributed a total of 5,907 Purpose Quotes, led by these top contributors: