Purpose Quotes

5907 Purpose quotes by 3153 unique authors

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… — Unknown Author
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
Rules serve no purpose; they can only do harm. Not only must the artist's mind be clear, it must also be free. His fancy should… — Unknown Author
There is one quality more important than know-how.... This is know-how by which we determine not only how to accomplish our purposes, but what our… — Norbert Wiener
To make a man happy, fill his hands with work, his heart with affection, his mind with purpose, his memory with useful knowledge, his future… — Frederick E. Crane
We have focused on the miracle-thing and I think we often overlook the message of Hanukkah. To me, the core of the holiday is the… — Ralph Levy
It seems that wherever the Welfare State is involved, the moral precept, "Thou shalt not steal," becomes altered to say: "Thou shalt not steal, except… — F. A. Harper
If you don't put a value on money and seek wealth, you most probably won't receive it. You must seek wealth for it to seek… — John Frederick Demartini
This cement can be used in any situation and for any purpose to which any other mortar or hydraulic cement can be applied. It does… — Canvass White
The scientist who recognizes God knows only the God of Newton. To him the God imagined by Laplace and Comte is wholly inadequate. He feels… — Arthur Compton
When we trace the part of which this terrestrial system is composed, and when we view the general connection of those several parts, the whole… — James Hutton
Scientific modes of thought cannot be developed and become generally accepted unless people renounce their primary, unreflecting, and spontaneous attempt to understand all their experience… — Norbert Elias
Freud expressed the opinion-not quite in earnest, though, it seeemed to me-that philosophy was the most decent form of sublimation of repressed sexuality, nothing more.… — Unknown Author
[Young] was afterwards accustomed to say, that at no period of his life was he particularly fond of repeating experiments, or even of very frequently… — Unknown Author
For strictly scientific or technological purposes all this is irrelevant. On a pragmatic view, as on a religious view, theory and concepts are held in… — Unknown Author
The determination of the relationship and mutual dependence of the facts in particular cases must be the first goal of the Physicist; and for this… — Franz Karl Achard
The traditional disputes of philosophers are, for the most part, as unwarranted as they are unfruitful. The surest way to end them is to establish… — A.J. Ayer

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