Purpose Quotes
5907 Purpose quotes by 3153 unique authors
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Your long-term happiness and fulfillment depend on your ability to fulfill your soul’s unique purpose and to fill the place in the world that only…
— Rod Stryker
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There are many things the government cant do, many good purposes it must renounce. It must leave them to the enterprise of others. It cannot…
— Lord Acton
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Never underestimate your own strength. You were born for a purpose and are blessed with the power to achieve it.
— Leon Brown
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Ancient boundaries are meaningless, except for political purposes; old divisions of clan and tribe are sentimental remnants of the pre-atomic age; neither creed nor color…
— Sydney J. Harris
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We shall never prevent the abuse of power if we are not prepared to limit power in a way which occasionally may prevent its use…
— Friedrich August von Hayek
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Do all the work you can do, every day, and do each piece of work in a perfectly successful manner; put the power of success,…
— Wallace D. Wattles
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The ownership of money and property comes as a result of doing things in a certain way; those who do things in this Certain Way,…
— Wallace D. Wattles
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Whatever you do, do it to the purpose; do it thoroughly, not superficially. Go to the bottom of things. Any thing half done, or half…
— Lord Chesterfield
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Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character, and one of the best instruments of success. Without it, genius wastes its…
— Lord Chesterfield
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Taking architecture seriously therefore makes some singular and strenuous demands upon us...It means conceding that we are inconveniently vulnerable to the colour of our wallpaper…
— Alain de Botton
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Most Americans are born drunk, and really require a little wine or beer to sober them. They have a sort of permanent intoxication from within,…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The purpose of a good education is to show you that there are three sides to a two-sided story.
— Stanley Fish
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You can talk all you want about having a clear purpose and strategy for your life, but ultimately this means nothing if you are not…
— Clayton Christensen
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Christ came to give us a justifying righteousness, and He also came to make us holy — not chiefly for the purpose of evidencing here…
— Thomas Chalmers
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Man cannot live without some knowledge of the purpose of life. If he can find no purpose in life he creates one in the inevitability…
— Chester Himes
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Purpose of counter-intelligence action is to disrupt and it is immaterial whether facts exist to substantiate the charge. If facts are present it aids in…
— J. Edgar Hoover
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Wherever the title of streets and parks may rest, they have immemorially been held in trust for the use of the public and, time out…
— Jason Epstein
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No matter what our job is, we view it not as our purpose in life but rather as where God has sovereignly placed us for…
— Matt Chandler
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Giving up everything must mean giving over everything to kingdom purposes, surrendering everything to further the one central cause, loosening our grip on everything. For…
— Randy Alcorn
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But it seems to me that if God had intended for you to cover your face then, in His wisdom, He would have provided you…
— Pat Condell
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Asking, ‘If there is no God, what is the purpose of life?’ is like asking, ‘If there is no master, whose slave will I be?’…
— Dan Barker
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Right at this moment, I only want silence. I believe that the end of life is silence in the love people have for you. I've…
— Vincent Price
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You know what it takes to win. Just look at my fist. When I make a fist, it's strong and you can't tear it apart.…
— Unknown Author
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Like art, love, and pornography, noir is hard to define, but you know it when you see it. For the purposes of the book and…
— Otto Penzler
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We hope there is a sense of purpose in everything.
— Ozzie Smith
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