Best 7398 quotes in «purpose quotes» category

Advertising justifies its existence when used in the public interest-it is much too powerful a tool to use solely for commercial purposes.

Affirm continuously to yourself: I am in the right place, at the right time, for the right purpose.

After learning to love God (worship), learning to love others is the second purpose of your life.

A gentleman is never rude except on purpose - I can honestly be nasty sober, believe you me.

A golf course outside a big town serves an excellent purpose in that it segregates, as though a concentration camp, all the idle and idiot well-to-do.

A good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life, and as such it must surely be a necessary commodity.

A good comedy with a purpose behind it is exhilarating.

A hero holds purposes appropriate to man and is, therefore, a thinker.

Ah, only he who knows where he sails, knows what wind is good, and a fair wind for him.

A jackass has that kind of strength, and puts it to a useful purpose, and is valuable to the world because he is a jackass; but anobleman is not valuable because he is a jackass. It is a mixture that is always ineffectual, and should never have been attempted in the first place. And yet, once you start a mistake, the trouble is done and you never know what is going to come of it.

A journalistic purpose could be someone with a Xerox machine in a basement.

ALGEBRA is a general Method of Computation by certain Signs and Symbols which have been contrived for this Purpose, and found convenient.

Aligning yourself with the intelligence of the universe means coming to understand your life's purpose and applying it fearlessly to life's circumstances.

A life without purpose is like a novel without a plot. It wanders all over the place, is hard to follow, and in the end, doesn't get particularly good reviews.

All achievement, no matter what may be its nature, or its purpose, must begin with an intense, burning desire for something definite.

All art that is not mere storytelling, or mere portraiture, is symbolic, and has the purpose of those symbolic talismans which medieval magicians made with complex colours and forms, and bade their patients ponder over daily, and guard with holy secrecy; for it entangles, in complex colours and forms, a part of the Divine Essence.

All discussion, all debate, all dissidence tends to question and in consequence, to upset existing convictions; that is precisely its purpose and its justification.

All created forms are fractal, as is their purpose, use, and allotted time for existence.

All contributions by corporations to any political committee or for any political purpose should be forbidden by law

All genuine ideals have one thing in common: they express the desire for something which is not yet accomplished but which is desirable for the purpose of the growth and happiness of the individual.

All I can do is be me, whoever that is.

All I can say is that you only realize how big your mountain is once youre laying motionless, helpless, and hopeless in the valley below. No one goes there on purpose, if you get what Im saying, because the only way to find your personal low is to slip and roll down that mountain of yours, straight through to the bottom, no holds barred.

All knowledge that is about human society, and not about the natural world, is historical knowledge, and therefore rests upon judgment and interpretation. This is not to say that facts or data are nonexistent, but that facts get their importance from what is made of them in interpretation… for interpretations depend very much on who the interpreter is, who he or she is addressing, what his or her purpose is, at what historical moment the interpretation takes place.

All of God’s people are ordinary people who have been made extraordinary by the purpose He has given them.

All metallics are neutrals. So it is absolutely fine to mix gold and silver; you just want it to look like it has purpose.

All political spendings for purposes beyond the protection of life and property are a snare and a delusion.

All production is for the purpose of ultimately satisfying a consumer.

... all reputable falconers agreed that for hunting purposes the only way you could reliably bring down prey with a wowhawk was by using it in a slingshot.

All nature's creatures join to express nature's purpose. Somewhere in their mounting and mating, rutting and butting is the very secret of nature itself.

Allow your passion to become your purpose, and it will one day become your profession.

All State education is a sort of dynamo machine for polarizing the popular mind; for turning and holding its lines of force in the direction supposed to be most effective for State purposes.

All that happens in our lives which we find painful, physically or emotionally, is for a purpose. Unfortunately, from our very limited perspective it is often not possible to see the good in it. The divine plan is not available to our eyes.

all the categories which we employ to describe conscious mental acts, such as ideas, purposes, resolutions, and so on, can be applied tothese latent states.

All revolutions are spiritual at the source. All my activities have the sole purpose of achieving a union of hearts.

All the world over it is true that a double-minded man is unstable in all his ways, like a wave on the streamlet, tossed hither and thither with every eddy of its tide. A determinate purpose in life and a steady adhesion to it through all disadvantages, are indispensable conditions of success.

All the various component parts of the Hebrew worship subserve this great purpose, the bringing of man into communication with God.

All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.

All things lead us to our innermost truth. That is their purpose. That is the purpose of Life itself. Life is truth, revealing Itself to Itself.

All the world is full of inscape and chance left free to act falls into an order as well as purpose.

All trials force the question, Who are you really? And you must trust yourself to answer

Alluding to hell is a warning that a person can completely neglect his purpose in life. I don't believe in an eternal hell.

All we know about Jesus is what someone else wrote down... so really one should say, "Here is what someone wrote down that they said Jesus said..." this isn't uncertainty on purpose, just plain speaking.

All you need to find and accomplish God's purpose in your life is God's permission and approval--not anyone else's. When you get in step with Him, there will be a glow on your face that will make people wonder what you're up to.

A logical theory may be tested by its capacity for dealing with puzzles, and it is a wholesome plan, in thinking about logic, to stock the mind with as many puzzles as possible, since these serve much the same purpose as is served by experiments in physical science.

Almost nothing in Perl serves a single purpose.

Almost anything that can be praised or advocated has been put to some disgusting use. There is no principle, however immaculate, that has not had its compromising manipulator.

A lot of my video work is super lo-fi on purpose. I'm not trying to become technically super proficient. The only thing I'm interested in becoming technically proficient on is my alto saxophone.

A lot of my work is helping people to find their own life's purpose and then follow it. I find that when people are not working on their life's purpose there is a sense of emptiness and anxiety.

Always keep your home presentable, assuming you keep a home for purposes of presentation.

A lot of the Beatles albums were very various, and we did it on purpose: We didn't want the next track to sound like the last one.