Purpose Quotes

5907 quotes by 3354 authors

Any baseball is beautiful. No other small package comes as close to the ideal design and utility. It is a perfect object for a man's… — Roger Angell
Man has risen, not fallen. He can choose to develop his capacities as the highest animal and to try to rise still farther, or he… — George Gaylord Simpson
How does one chip off the marble that doesn't belong? ... That comes about through five things: humility, reverence, inspiration, deep purpose, and joy. No… — Walter Russell
By balancing the needs of families and employers, and by extending a safe haven to those fleeing persecution, our immigration policy serves its historic purpose.… — Spencer Abraham
The primary purpose of reading the Bible is not to know the Bible but to know God. — James Merritt
Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence. The mounting of this illusion defines the purpose and… — Lewis H. Lapham
We all sorely complain of the shortness of time, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives are either… — Seneca the Younger
Thoughts lead on to purpose, purpose leads on to actions, actions form habits, habits decide character, and character fixes our destiny. — Tryon Edwards
If you were all alone in the universe with no one to talk to, no one with which to share the beauty of the stars,… — Mitsugi Saotome
I thought my mom's whole purpose was to be my mom. That's how she made me feel. — Natasha Gregson Wagner
A golf course outside a big town serves an excellent purpose in that it segregates, as though a concentration camp, all the idle and idiot… — Osbert Sitwell
The danger of what's happening right now in terms of using reconciliation is, the purpose of the Senate is going to be defeated. And that… — Tom Coburn
The purpose of the Bible is simply to proclaim God's plan to save His children. It asserts that man is lost and needs to be… — Max Lucado
Jesus did not die on the cross just so we could live comfortable, well adjusted lives. His purpose is far deeper: He wants to make… — Rick Warren
Today, we need a nation of Minutemen, citizens who are not only prepared to take arms, but citizens who regard the preservation of freedom as… — John F. Kennedy
Government can have no more than two legitimate purposes - the suppression of injustice against individuals within the community, and the common defense against external… — William Godwin
Government is the assumption of authority over a given area and all within it, exercised generally for the double purpose of more complete oppression of… — Benjamin Tucker
The possibilities of prayer are found in its allying itself with the purposes of God, for God's purposes and man's praying are the combination of… — Edward McKendree Bounds
The purpose of prayer is to reveal the presence of God equally present, all the time, in every condition. — Oswald Chambers
Luck is tenacity of purpose. — Elbert Hubbard

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