Purpose Quotes

5907 Purpose quotes by 3153 unique authors

Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written and another for which it wasn't. — Alan Perlis
It's okay that your parents aren't perfect; no one's are. And it's okay that they didn't have any perfect children either; no one's are. You… — Ardeth Kapp
The good life is best construed as a matrix that includes happiness, occasional sadness, a sense of purpose, playfulness, and psychological flexibility, as well autonomy,… — Unknown Author
Sometimes players need to gain time on the clock by repeating the position, but most often its purpose is to wear down the opponent psychologically. — Pal Benko
To speak of certain government and establishment institutions as 'the system' is to speak correctly . . . They are sustained by structural relationships even… — Robert M. Pirsig
Youth is a beautiful dream, on whose brightness books shed a blinding dust. Will ever the day come when the wise link the joy of… — Khalil Gibran
A zygote is a gamete's way of producing more gametes. This may be the purpose of the universe. — Robert A. Heinlein
If your purpose is to liberate yourself and others into love and freedom, then you should do whatever magnifies the love and freedom in your… — David Deida
Four snakes gliding up and down a hollow for no purpose that I could see - not to eat, not for love, but only gliding. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
People are always asking, "What's the purpose of life?" That's easy. Relieve suffering. Create beauty. Make gardens. — Dan Barker
Christianity sees plants and flowers as created by God to show forth and share with humans the divine goodness, beauty and truth - the purpose… — John Stokes
The all-round liberally educated man, from Palaeolithic times to the time when the earth shall become a cold cinder, will always be the same, namely,… — Unknown Author
What is the purpose and meaning and nature of sexual intercourse? It seems to me to be quite clear. It's for two things. It's for… — Janet E. Smith
I've had to create companies that I believe in 100%. These are companies I feel will make a genuine difference. Then I have to be… — Richard Branson
People have to decide on priorities if they want to get anywhere. The best lessons I learned was to just do it. — Richard Branson
The important thing is that you've got a strong foundation before you start to try to save the world or help other people. — Richard Branson
Well, I'm somebody who is just living ...living life, and if I get frustrated by something, then I like to try to put it right. — Richard Branson
In LA, I mean, here's this place full of desperate and sad people who take their only pleasure from destroying others for the purposes of… — Heather Donahue
Making a profit is no more the purpose of a corporation than getting enough to eat is the purpose of life. Getting enough to eat… — Unknown Author
...the question, Why try for greatness? would seem almost tautological. If you're doing something you care that much about, and you believe in its purpose… — James C. Collins
Genius of AND. Embrace both extremes on a number of dimensions at the same time. Instead of choosing a OR B, figure out how to… — James C. Collins
When people are deeply happy they bring a sense of purpose with them wherever they go, whatever circumstances they are in. So if they're changing… — Marci Shimoff
To be truly happy, you need a clear sense of meaning and purpose in life. — Brian Tracy
Although human ingenuity may devise various inventions which, by the help of various instruments, answer to one and the same purpose, yet will it never… — Leonardo da Vinci
In Nature everything has a meaning; that is, every object is exactly adapted to the place it occupies, and to the purpose for which it… — Unknown Author

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