Purpose Quotes
5907 Purpose quotes by 3153 unique authors
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We can see hope in the midst of hopelessness. We can see peace in the midst of chaos. We have a hope that the world does not…
— Priscilla Shirer
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God often uses our challenges as stepping stones to the higher purposes of God.
— James Robison
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Transmedia storytelling represents a process where integral elements of a fiction get dispersed systematically across multiple delivery channels for the purpose of creating a unified…
— Henry Jenkins
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We are vegans not simply because being vegan will reduce suffering. We are vegan because every sentient being values her or his life even if…
— Gary L. Francione
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The State, completely in its genesis, essentially and almost completely during the first stages of its existence, is a social institution, forced by a victorious…
— Franz Oppenheimer
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Part of our purpose in life is to build a legacy – a consistent pattern of building into the lives of others.
— Tony Dungy
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Life is eternal; death only punctuates it for a short while. After a little break life starts again. Death is ultimate truth; life is truth…
— Mahesh Babu
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If you both agree at a conscious level that the purpose of your relationship is to create an opportunity, not an obligation-an opportunity for growth,…
— Neale Donald Walsch
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Life is so full of meaning and of purpose, so full of beauty - beneath its covering - that you will find that earth but…
— Giovanni Giocondo
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I have over and over again explained that the purpose of the Boy Scout and Girl Guide Movement is to build men and women as…
— Robert Baden-Powell
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But fortunately for us and for all men, it has not been given unto us to judge, nor to execute, nor to measure out the…
— Richard L. Evans
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Among us, I am happy to say, old age is honorable, and regarded as a blessing from the Lord. It is our duty to desire…
— Lorenzo Snow
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Sick or well, blind or seeing, bond or free, we are here for a purpose and however we are situated, we please God better with…
— Helen Keller
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The spiritual life is indeed a life of struggle; but it is also a life of well grounded hope. Hope is grounded in freedom, and…
— Edgar S. Brightman
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The purpose of seasonal festivals is periodically to revive the topocosm. Gaster coined this word from the Greek - topo for place and cosmos for…
— Dolores LaChapelle
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The purpose of the whole (work) is to remove those who are living in this life from a state of wretchedness and lead them to…
— Dante Alighieri
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It concerns us to know the purposes we seek in life, for then, like archers aiming at a definite mark, we shall be more likely…
— Aristotle
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SIREN, n. One of several musical prodigies famous for a vain attempt to dissuade Odysseus from a life on the ocean wave. Figuratively, any lady…
— Ambrose Bierce
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At any given moment, life is completely senseless. But viewed over a period, it seems to reveal itself as an organism existing in time, having…
— Aldous Huxley
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To many, mathematics is a collection of theorems. For me, mathematics is a collection of examples; a theorem is a statement about a collection of…
— Unknown Author
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But as Nature is the best guide, teaching must be the development of natural inclinations, for which purpose the teacher must watch his pupil and…
— Michel de Montaigne
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The purpose of education...is to create in a person the ability to look at the world for himself, to make his own decisions.
— James A. Baldwin
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The only purpose of education is to teach a student how to live his life-by developing his mind and equipping him to deal with reality.…
— Ayn Rand
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One purpose of CRC cards [a design tool] is to fail early, to fail often, and to fail inexpensively. It is a lot cheaper to…
— Unknown Author
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We think only through the medium of words. Languages are true analytical methods. Algebra, which is adapted to its purpose in every species of expression,…
— Antoine Lavoisier
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