Purpose Quotes

5907 Purpose quotes by 3153 unique authors

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. — Unknown Author
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
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

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