Purpose Quotes
5907 quotes by 3153 authors
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More and more people are beginning to feel that there must be another way of thinking, perceiving, and acting. And perhaps the beginning of another…
— Gerald Jampolsky
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When you walk with purpose, you collide with destiny.
— Bertice Berry
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Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it
— Gautama Buddha
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Behind every footballing tough guy there lurks a mincing aesthete with a love of art for art's sake, football for football's sake. A win without…
— Simon Barnes
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A restaurant wine list is praised and given awards for reasons that have little to do with its real purpose, as if it existed only…
— Gerald Asher
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A technician is a man who understands everything about his job except its ultimate purpose and its place in the order of the universe.
— Unknown Author
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[Seeds Are Small.] Becoming a force of nature doesn't mean that all of our aspirations must be "grand." First steps are often small, and initial…
— Peter Senge
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The war against Iraq is as disastrous as it is unnecessary; perhaps in terms of its wisdom, purpose and motives, the worst war in American…
— William Sloane Coffin
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If you’d just center your thoughts and affections upon the Lord, you’d be better off accidentally than you’ve ever been on purpose!
— Andrew Wommack
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When our grandchildren ask us where we were when the voiceless and the vulnerable in our era needed leaders of compassion and purpose, I hope…
— Gary Haugen
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Christianity teaches that, contra fatalism, suffering is overwhelming; contra Buddhism, suffering is real; contra karma, suffering is often unfair; but contra secularism, suffering is meaningful.…
— Timothy Keller
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Some suffering is given in order to chastise and correct a person for wrongful patterns of life (as in the case of Jonah imperiled by…
— Timothy Keller
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The Bible’s purpose is not so much to show you how to live a good life. The Bible’s purpose is to show you how God’s…
— Timothy Keller
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Dreams, ideas, and plans not only are an escape, they give me purpose, a reason to hang on.
— Steven Callahan
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To provide its happy people with perpetual fun is now the deepest purpose of Western civilization.
— Jeremy Seabrook
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A simple life is not seeing how little we can get by with-that's poverty-but how efficiently we can put first things first. . . .…
— Victoria Moran
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You cannot stay where you are and go with God. You cannot continue doing things your way and accomplish God's purpose in His ways. Your…
— Henry Blackaby
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The purpose of pruning is to improve the quality of the roses, not to hurt the bush.
— Florence Littauer
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It is impossible that this gnosis resulting in the heart should be achieved by man for any other purpose than to obey God, love Him,…
— Ibn Ata Allah
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No matter what the storm clouds bring, you can face your pain with courage and hope. For two thousand years ago-six hours, one Friday-Christ firmly…
— Max Lucado
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