Best 7398 quotes in «purpose quotes» category

We as people have a purpose here to contribute to the Earth, to contribute to people's goodness and good life.

We cannot fulfill that purpose [environmentalism] if we are heaping contempt on God's creation.

We cannot be separated in interest or divided in purpose. We stand together until the end.

We cannot justify treating any sentient nonhuman as our property, as a resource, as a thing that we an use and kill for our purposes.

We can only feel happy and fulfilled if we're engaged in our (soul's) purpose.

We cannot suppose therefore that God has made an order of beings, with such mental qualities and powers, for the sole purpose of being used as beasts, or instruments of labour.

We cannot understand the meaning of many trials; God does not explain them. To explain a trial would be to destroy its object, which is that of calling forth simple faith and implicit obedience.

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 have. We can see clearly that all things work together for the good of them that love Him and are called according to His purpose.

We can speak very much to the purpose and yet in such a way that the whole world cries out in contradiction: namely, when we are not speaking to the whole world.

We can't care for something we don't understand. This is the purpose of why we explore and why we voyage.

We can't disrupt polling places anymore, ... It doesn't serve any purpose. It just makes people mad.

We cough because we can't help it, but others do it on purpose.

We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which, lest we forget, is the common lot.

We could not have gotten where we are without coming the way we came.

We create our own unhappiness. The purpose of suffering is to help us understand we are the ones who cause it.

We discover that meaning and purpose only when we make God the reference point of our lives.

We do not choose between a life of difficulty and a life of ease. We simply choose for what purpose we will work, sometimes suffer, and hopefully endure.

We don't become mediocre all at once, and we rarely do it on purpose.

We don't live abundant and happy lives in isolation or by being takers. So by giving away your purpose to others, you will find that others want to GIVE to you, too.

We don't want to be simply wandering about without some kind of reason, we want our presence here to have a purpose, and that we are not going to end here, we are going to proceed somewhere else, and also that we didn't begin here, that we began somewhere else and all that living, all that elaborate account of our presence seems to be quite basic to our nature and so this is what literacy taps into.

We fail, not because of big problems, but because of small purposes.

We exist in order to actualize the deepest desires of our hearts.

We face a brutal enemy who will kill the innocent for one purpose and that is to gain control of the Middle East and to use the leverage of oil to bring down the West, and to attack us again.

We face a hostile ideology global in scope, atheistic in character, ruthless in purpose and insidious in method.

We have a no puke rule. The purpose is performance, not puking.

We have learned that power is a positive force if it is used for positive purposes.

We have come tardily to the tremendous task of cleaning up our environment. We should have moved with similar zeal at least a decade ago. But no purpose is served by post-mortems. With visionary zeal but the greatest realism, we must now address ourselves to the vast problems that confront us.

We have long observed that every neurosis has the result, and therefore probably the purpose, of forcing the patient out of real life, of alienating him from actuality.

We have not come into the world to be numbered; we have been created for a purpose; for great things: to love and be loved.

We have so much ill fortune as inconstancy, or so much bad purpose as folly, we are not so full of evil as we are of inanity; we are not so wretched as we are base

We have to have a purpose greater than the endless struggle to satisfy personal desires.

We have to remember we're in a global economy. The purpose of fiscal stimulus is not simply to sustain activity in our national economies, but to help the global economy as well, and that's why it's so critical that measures in those packages avoid anything that smacks of protectionism.

We have to start with a ban on the manufacturing and import of handguns. From there we register the guns which are currently owned, and follow that with additional bans and acquisitions of handguns and rifles with no sporting purpose.

We have to find our own purposes in life, which are not derived directly from our scientific history.

We have to have a commonality and purpose. We have to understand that each of us is dependent on the success of the others in the organization to reach the goals we're trying to accomplish. It's never an easy thing.

Weight every purpose in the light of eternity. A trivial pursuit is that which is out side the will of God & detached from the glory of God.

We have tried to substitute mass for purpose. We have tried to regain military potency of defense by making it gigantic, unwieldy, complex. It never works.

Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.

Welfarists are concerned with the quality of the animals' lives before or even during their slaughter and want animals to be treated, and slaughtered, "humanely." Welfarists don't necessarily feel that it is wrong for humans to use animals for our own purposes.

We must not only give what we have, we must give what we are.

Well, Americans expect our president to be human beings, and as imperfect as all of us are. They expect us to make mistakes and all that. But one thing the American public likes is, if you make a mistake, you do that, you cross that line that they expect you to behave under, then you apologize or then you correct that behavior and said you have learned, you are going to do better, you are going to achieve better, and you are going to serve a higher purpose than that.

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.

We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives.

We need an economics fit for purpose in a finite and entropic world.

We need to be celebrating those who serve us rather than mocking them for the purpose of getting on TV and selling some books.

We never can tell how our lives may work to the account of the general good, and we are not wise enough to know if we have fulfilled our mission or not.

We need to reexamine and reassess the purpose of the corporation, and go back to the idea that senior leadership has responsibilities not just to shareholders but also to customers and employees.

We need to have a purpose in this life. I'm pleading with you, I'm begging with you to do the right thing. And do it not for the sake of how it will impact your own lives, but only for the sake of doing the right thing.

We never deceive for a good purpose: knavery adds malice to falsehood.

We're all liars when it serves our purpose.