Best 7398 quotes in «purpose quotes» category

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 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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Patriotism was a living fire of unquestioned belief and purpose.

People are Gods masterpieces, created for the purposes that God has already mapped out.

People concentrate, particularly for their own purposes, on dividing people, and it's just not necessary. If you actually spend time with somebody, in 10 minutes, you'll find something in common, and it's powerful when you do. When you find you've got something in common with somebody, all of a sudden, you're friends.

People don't want lots and lots of single purpose devices. They do not want to have to learn how to set up something for photos, another thing for music, another thing for video.

People have a seed to success within them. Most never find it and therefore fail to reach their potential. Occasionally, a leader discovers it and helps that individual develop it. For both, they now can fulfill the purpose for which they are born.

People have to decide on priorities if they want to get anywhere. The best lessons I learned was to just do it.

People have to feel needed. Frequently, we just offer a job and 'perks.' We don't always offer people a purpose. When people feel there is a purpose and that they're needed, there's not much else to do except let them do the work.

People must belong to a tribe; they yearn to have a purpose larger than themselves. We are obligated by the deepest drives of the human spirit to make ourselves more than animated dust, and we must have a story to tell about where we came from, and why we are here.

People need a sacred narrative. They must have a sense of larger purpose, in one form or another, however intellectualized. They will find a way to keep ancestral spirits alive.

People often confuse "goal" and "purpose." A goal is something tangible; a purpose is a direction. A goal can be achieved; a purpose is fulfilled in each moment. We can set ad achieve many goals; a purpose remains constant for life.

People who follow the principles of the Bible - even unknowingly - tend to have a dramatic impact on their world. For instance, no one would argue that it's a bad idea "to love your neighbor as yourself". On the other hand, those who don't follow it's principles or misuse the principles of the Bible for their own purposes can have equally devastating impact.

People who use time wisely spend it on activities that advance their overall purpose in life.

People who do not worship are swept into a vast restlessness, epidemic in the world, with no steady direction and no sustaining purpose.

People who truly understand God's purpose for their lives know that we are called to be intimately involved with one another.

Personally making a film solely for the shock value serves no purpose to me.

People you don't like are pigheaded. Your friends are stubborn, or hold to their purpose.

Perhaps for the purposes of war racial differences had been buried, but certainly in no deep grave.

Persistence is stubbornness with a purpose.

Perhaps you have seen me. I know well, my purpose was merely that of a symbol, 'equals', 'times'... ; but what is said, for all that, was identity-less: a kind of live geometry.

Peter Keating: "Do you always have to have a purpose? Do you always have to be so damn serious? Can't you ever do things without reason, just like everybody else? You're so serious, so old. Everything's important with you. Everything's great, significant in some way, every minute, even when you keep still. Can't you ever be comfortable-and unimportant?" | Howard Roark: "No.

Petty things become unimportant when people are impassioned about a purpose higher than self.

Photographing is an emotional thing, a graceful thing. Photography allows me to wander with a purpose.

Personal power is not the end of the process. It is a tool that you use to get someplace. The purpose of the car is not to live in the car, it is to drive you someplace you want to go.

Pettiness is the tendency of people without large purposes.

Photography's central sense of purpose and aesthetic: the precise and lucid description of significant fact.

Pilgrimage is a powerful metaphor for any journey with the purpose of finding something that matters deeply to the traveler.

Piling up material goods cannot fill the emptiness of lives which have no confidence or purpose.

Plato defined a slave as one who accepts from another the purposes which control his conduct. This condition obtains even where there is no slavery in the legal sense. It is found wherever men are engaged in activity which is socially serviceable, but whose service they do not understand and have no personal interest in.

Poetry has historically been allied with religion and morals; it has served the purpose of penetrating the mysterious depths of things.

Play matters because it gives us a brief respite from the tyranny of apparent purpose.

Political action involves mental vulgarity, not merely because it entails the occurrence and support of those who are mentally vulgar, but because of the simplification of human life implied in even the best of it purposes.

Pleasure is not the purpose of man's existence. Joy is.

Pleasure, when it is a man's chief purpose, disappoints itself; and the constant application to it palls the faculty of enjoying it.

Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.

Possibly the Creator did not make the world chiefly for the purpose of providing studies for gifted novelists; but if He had done so, we can scarcely imagine that He could have offered anything much better in the way of material.