Purpose Quotes

5907 Purpose quotes by 3153 unique authors

If there is a purpose in life at all, there must be a purpose in suffering and in dying. But no man can tell another… — Gordon W. Allport
You would think with all the genius and the brilliance of these times, we might find a higher purpose and a better use of mind. — Jackson Browne
There comes a special moment in everyone's life, a moment for which that person was born. That special opportunity, when he seizes it, will fulfill… — Winston Churchill
God has given each of us our "marching order." Our purpose here on Earth is to find those orders and carry them out. Those orders… — Soren Kierkegaard
Such an executive officer the sun never shone on. I have but to show him my design, and I know that it can be done,… — Robert E. Lee
Granted that I must die, how shall I live? — Michael Novak
His [Daniel] fast broke the power of the delayer and released the angels of God so that God's purposes could be revealed and served. — Jentezen Franklin
They [Greenpeace] forgot their original purpose and turned into a big, rich bureaucracy, more interested in fund-raising than in saving lives, so I got fed… — Paul Watson
Researchers, with science as their authority, will be able to cut animals up, alive, into small pieces, drop them from a great height to see… — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
The Dodo never had a chance. He seems to have been invented for the sole purpose of becoming extinct and that was all he was… — Will Cuppy
He created the church to meet your five deepest needs: a purpose to live for, people to live with, principles to live by, a profession… — Rick Warren
Like the Bible, Stanislavsky's basic texts on acting can be quoted to any purpose. — Lee Strasberg
Invention is an Heroic thing, and plac'd above the reach of a low, and vulgar Genius. It requires an active, a bold, a nimble, a… — Thomas Sprat
A person with a clear purpose will make progress, even on the roughest road. A person with no purpose will make no progress, even on… — Thomas Carlyle
We were placed on earth to fulfil a purpose, and that purpose is what gives meaning to our lives, you were sent to the world… — Myles Munroe
The primary purpose of adoption is to provide a home for a child, not a child for a home. — Unknown Author
No two things differ more than hurry and dispatch. Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one. A weak man… — Charles Caleb Colton
My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions.... — Thomas A. Edison
The United States, and other advanced nations, will someday be able to produce instruments of death so terrible the world will be in abject terror… — Thomas A. Edison
It is a juvenile notion that a society needs a lofty purpose and a shining vision to achieve much. Both in the market place and… — Eric Hoffer
The quest for a war-free world has a basic purpose: survival. But if in the process we learn how to achieve it by love rather… — Joseph Rotblat
Life can only be enjoyed as one acquires a true perspective of life and death and of the real purpose of life. — Spiros Zodhiates
You don't think people would go on about my looks if I was No. 500 in the world instead of No.12, do you? Anyway, as… — Anna Kournikova
My purpose is, indeed, a horse of that color. — William Shakespeare
When you want a thing deeply, earnestly and intensely, this feeling of desire reinforces your will and arouses in you the determination to work for… — Grenville Kleiser

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