Best 7398 quotes in «purpose quotes» category

Oops, I thought. Oops is an all-purpose word standing for every bit of profanity, blasphemy, and pornographic and scatological execration I could think of.

On this day, we gather because we have chosen hope over fear, unity of purpose over conflict and discord.

Our chief usefulness to humanity rests on our combining power with high purpose. Power undirected by high purpose spells calamity, and high purpose by itself is utterly useless if the power to put it into effect is lacking.

Our essential purpose is to become the best version of ourselves.

Our emotions can be either corrupted or elevated. Human love was not created to be without premeditated purpose.

our friendship has no other purpose, no other reason, than to show you how utterly unlike me you are.

Our Grub-street biographers watch for the death of a great man like so many undertakers on purpose to make a penny of him.

Our heart's desire should be to worship God; we have been designed by God for this purpose. If we don't worship God, we'll worship something or someone else.

Our highest endeavour must be to develop individuals who are able out of their own initiative to impart purpose & direction to their lives.

Our lives are programmed at conception and are endowed with purpose and meaning.

Our life is psychological, and the purpose of life is to make psyche of it, to find connections between life and soul.

Our life here on Earth has as its purpose precisely to prepare for our eternal happiness. This world is a large womb. It is a 'test' as all opportunities are tests.

Our lives our guided by that general conception of the course of things which has been created by society for social purposes.

Our mailing lists (and their repeater newsgroups) are only for the purpose of promoting proprietary software.

Our purpose in founding the city was not to make any one class in it surpassingly happy, but to make the city as a whole as happyas possible.

Our purpose is simply to ask how theological principles can be shown to have usable secular analogues that throw light upon the nature of language.

Our purpose is to consciously, deliberately evolve towards a wiser, more liberated and luminous state of being.

Our prime purpose in life is to serve others.

Our purpose is simple... To Love To love each other, to love all life and to love our earth.

Our social and economic system cannot march toward better days unless it is inspired by things of the Spirit. It is here that the higher purposes of individualism must find their sustenance.

Our suffering is often the deep soul groaning for the purposes of God in and through us. Mission cannot be fulfilled without love, and we cannot love without groaning and suffering over the brokenness in others' lives. As a result, we cannot accomplish our mission without suffering.

O, what I owe to the file, the hammer, and the furnace of the Lord Jesus! I know that he is no idle husbandman - he purposes a crop.

Pain I keep to myself; my music is for entertainment purposes and I always have that in mind.

Parliament is a deliberate assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole; where, not local purpose, not local prejudices ought to guide but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole.

Opportunism towards knowledge is a utilitarian demand that knowledge must be immediately practical. Just like with sociology where we hope its purpose is to serve society, however, the true purpose of sociology lies in its impracticality. It cannot become practical or else it loses its meaning. Perhaps we should learn a different kind of knowledge: the knowledge to question knowledge.

Our generation had been told that life had seriousness, and we came in (to politics) with purpose. We were serving history.

Our good purposes foreslowed are become our tormentors upon our deathbed.

Our noblest purpose in life is to remember our spiritual nature in the face of suggestions that we are a material society.

Our purpose is to lean against the winds of deflation or inflation, whichever way they are blowing.

Our purpose is to provide you the way to the answer within that alone can fill the meaningless void. The way to the way is inward, where salvation has awaited your coming for 2000 years.

Our purpose in this life is to gain the view of ourselves; otherwise, we are total slaves to others who psychically drain us, abuse us.

Our purpose is to educate as well as to entertain.

Our purpose in life is to grow in wisdom and in love.

Our purpose in this project is to begin to turn that fear of cancer, actually America's greatest fear, into a future, not only free of fear, but full of hope.

Our purpose on this earth is not one single event, an accomplishment we can check off a list. There is no test. No passing or failing. There's only us, each moment shaping who we are, into what we will become.

Our society is run by a managerial bureaucracy, by professional politicians; people are motivated by mass suggestion, their aim is producing more and consuming more, as purposes in themselves.

Our time is brief, and it will pass no matter what we do. So let us have purpose in spending it. Let us spend it so that our time matters to each of us, and matters to all those whose lives we touch.

Our tenet ever was . . . that Congress had not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but were restrained to those specifically enumerated; and that, as it was never meant that they should provide for that welfare but by the exercise of the enumerated powers, so it could not have been meant they should raise money for purposes which the enumeration did not place under their action.

Pain serves a purpose. Without it you are in danger. What you cannot feel you cannot take care of.

Painting doesn't have a function, not in the way that music or film does... I mean, you can dance to music. Music can be used for a soundtrack, so it has a function in that sense, beyond itself. But painting doesn't... But I do believe that painting has a purpose.

Parenthood is not an object of appetite or even desire. It is an object of will. There is no appetite for parenthood; there is only a purpose or intention of parenthood.

Part of our purpose in life is to build a legacy – a consistent pattern of building into the lives of others.

Pascal and C are special-purpose languages for manipulating the registers and memory of a von Neumann-style computer.

Passion is born when your heart gets carried away with a purpose greater than yourself.

Part of your purpose in life is to build strong and fruitful relationships with others, and your work setting is a perfect place to start.

Parts exist only for purposes of figuring and describing, and as we figure the world out we become confused if we do not remember this all the time.

Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.

Passion is the fuel that will keep us joyfully fulfilling our purpose.

Passion, sexual passion, may lead to marriage, but cannot sustain marriage. The purpose of marriage is the raising of children, for which patience, not passion, is the necessary foundation.

Passion is the model of all my actions.